Controls Engineer III

<p><b>Primary Purpose</b></p><p>The Engineer III - Controls is responsible for providing expertise regarding new product development as well as continuous improvement of legacy systems. Day to day responsibilities include control design and tuning, simulation development, PLC programming, and electrical system integration. Additionally, candidates will facilitate product development through design, validation, and release.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><br />Major Responsibilities</b></p><ul><li> Designs, validates, and brings new products to market</li><li>.Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates a variety of moderately complex components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety</li><li>.Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans for a variety of moderately complex products and/or components; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials</li><li>.Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize moderately complex designs for manufacturability</li><li>.Utilizes PLC programming proficiency to develop programming instructions for optimal machine operation</li><li>.Supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs</li><li>)Acts as a resource to mentor and teach less experienced engineers</li><li>.Travel to other Generac facilities as necessary</li><li>.Other duties as assigned</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><b>.<br />Educati</b></p><ul><li>onBachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipli</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><b>ne<br />Work Experie</b></p><ul><li>nce5+ years of relevant work experie</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><b>nce<br />Knowledge / Skills / Abili</b></p><ul><li>tiesAbility to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy on multiple proje</li><li>cts;Proficiency in developing control solutions for power system applications, including generators and battery energy storage syst</li><li>ems;Proficiency in closed loop tuning control tuning, stability analysis, and performance optimization of advanced control algorit</li><li>hms;Expertise in model-based design methodologies, including development of high-fidelity system simulations, automated design verification and production-ready auto code generat</li><li>ion;Experience in test &amp; validation plan and procedure development and execution including multiple methods (HIL/SIL, bench component and/or system testing, fault injection methods, et</li><li>c.);Experience in new product design and developm</li><li>ent;Demonstrated written communication and presentation ski</li><li>lls;Ability to translate technical information to all audien</li><li>ces;Applies engineering knowledge and experience to improve products, services and proces</li><li>ses;MS Excel, MS W</li><li>ord;Experience with machine des</li><li>ign;Previous experience with SAP or equivalent </li></ul><p><br /></p>ERP.<img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?9iugue7yfqgLYYcAL5iMxxhe%2b4yJ9hsng" width="0" height="0" />