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Description
Spire Corporation is a Massachusetts corporation incorporated in 1969 with its principal offices in Bedford, Massachusetts. Spire is a diversified technology company serving the solar energy, biomedical, telecommunications and defense industries worldwide with innovative products and services based upon a common technology platform.
Spire has an immediate opening for a Senior Controls Engineer.
Responsibilities:
- Design electrical and software control systems for control of automated machinery.
- Develop and maintain electrical drawing and software design document standards.
- Supervise electrical and software engineering projects and staff.
- Thoroughly document, debug, verify and validate software.
- Establish and maintain software technical project files.
- Create, approve and maintain electrical control system drawings.
- Specify/recommend electrical and software components for use in Spire Solar equipment.
- Support hardware/software integration efforts for Spire Solar Equipment.
- Support Customer Satisfaction team on equipment control systems issues.
- Occasionally travel to customer sites to resolve control system design and implementation issues.
- Specify/recommend electrical and software design tools.
- Maintain software source code files.
- Provide backup support for Engineering department MIS issues.
Qualifications:
- BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science and minimum 5 years experience in machine control/automation.
- Proficient in programming in MS Visual Basic 4 and higher in a Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000) environment.
- Expert level in programming PLC ladder logic.
- Skilled in using AutoCAD 2000 for generating control system schematics and panel layouts.
- Experienced in MS excel, Access, Word and Project.
- Familiar with NFPA 79, NFPA 70 and CE standards.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Familiar with good engineering principles and practices.
- Proven track record of successful project management.
- Available for occasional domestic and international travel, as required.