Stellantis
Designer Senior Software/Automation
Stellantis, Southfield, Michigan, United States, 48033
Summary
The Software/Automation Engineer understands customer specifications and standards, and local and/or national electric codes for hardware design and software programming.
The Automation Engineer designs and commissions systems of electrical and fluid controls for a variety of applications including welders, robots, assembly, conveyor, and transfer systems.
The AE applies knowledge, principles and techniques in engineering and computer science to develop software system programming and documentation.
The AE facilitates building the process by troubleshooting connection issues, commissions and debugs equipment at the plant or customer user sites.
Duties and Responsibilities
Main areas of responsibilities are:Research, develop, and customize new hardware and software interfaces.Develop software structure and writing logic from scratch.Develop Human Machine Interface (HMI) screens and interface from scratch.Use existing customer and internal standards as well as references from previous projects to develop and customize all required application specific software (i.e., PLC ladder logic, HMI files).Coordinate and review with Controls Project Engineer, Controls Technical Leaders, and colleagues tomaintain consistency within a given project.Check hardware schematics and software programs for errors.Perform commissioning and debugging for intermediate to complex machine applications.Construct electrical and Fluid schematic packages by laying out I/O, designing magnetic circuits, fusing, control panel layouts, bills of material, and cable layouts.Other duties as required.
Qualifications and skillsMinimum of 2 years of Automotive automation work experience, preferably body shopMinimum of 4 years of experience with PLC controls is required, any industry is acceptable (automotive is preferred)HMI debug/commissioning skills are requiredWillingness to travel: 60% (US, Mexico and Canada)
The Software/Automation Engineer understands customer specifications and standards, and local and/or national electric codes for hardware design and software programming.
The Automation Engineer designs and commissions systems of electrical and fluid controls for a variety of applications including welders, robots, assembly, conveyor, and transfer systems.
The AE applies knowledge, principles and techniques in engineering and computer science to develop software system programming and documentation.
The AE facilitates building the process by troubleshooting connection issues, commissions and debugs equipment at the plant or customer user sites.
Duties and Responsibilities
Main areas of responsibilities are:Research, develop, and customize new hardware and software interfaces.Develop software structure and writing logic from scratch.Develop Human Machine Interface (HMI) screens and interface from scratch.Use existing customer and internal standards as well as references from previous projects to develop and customize all required application specific software (i.e., PLC ladder logic, HMI files).Coordinate and review with Controls Project Engineer, Controls Technical Leaders, and colleagues tomaintain consistency within a given project.Check hardware schematics and software programs for errors.Perform commissioning and debugging for intermediate to complex machine applications.Construct electrical and Fluid schematic packages by laying out I/O, designing magnetic circuits, fusing, control panel layouts, bills of material, and cable layouts.Other duties as required.
Qualifications and skillsMinimum of 2 years of Automotive automation work experience, preferably body shopMinimum of 4 years of experience with PLC controls is required, any industry is acceptable (automotive is preferred)HMI debug/commissioning skills are requiredWillingness to travel: 60% (US, Mexico and Canada)