Wagstaff Description:

Wagstaff manufactures equipment for aluminum producers, who process formed aluminum into parts and products you use every day.

*Pay: *$85,000 - 125,000 per year, depending on experience

As an employee of Wagstaff, you'll enjoy:

FREE medical/dental/vision benefit options

Paid non-working holidays

Monthly, site-wide BBQs

Up to 8% retirement contribution

Annual bonus program

1200 Sqft onsite gym, accessible 24/hrs a day

Family-friendly, company-wide events

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Job Summary

Apply electrical engineering and automation knowledge to the design, development, and production of Wagstaff automated casting equipment.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Become familiar with Wagstaff aluminum casting equipment, associated design criteria, and philosophies
• Participate with project teams to define the electrical engineering and automation requirements, including planned hours, based upon the scope as provided by Sales
• Create the design documents necessary for acquiring customer approval for automation designs and oversee production of design documents necessary for equipment production, both according to documented design procedures
• Serve as Wagstaff's primary technical contact to customer's technical personnel for electrical engineering and automation issues throughout the project, up to and including product start-up
• Provide documented technical and analytical evaluations for automation solutions keeping safety, functionality, and cost effectiveness paramount
• Participate as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Train other team members in support of the required engineering and design for a limited number of Wagstaff product lines as assigned
• Provide technical direction and consultation to other team members
• Design conceptual and detailed PLC based control systems and related architectures
• Program PLCs for direct chill aluminum casting pits and related device control
• Program and develop SCADA and HMI systems
• Test and troubleshoot hardware and software
• Provide technical support to Wagstaff service personnel and customers to resolve customer issues as they relate to Wagstaff provided automation systems
• Perform design review and post-commissioning review for continual improvement of Wagstaff automated products
• Keep equipment and work area clean and orderly
• Abide by company policies
• Periodic domestic and international travel required depending upon customer and company business needs
• In order to achieve business objectives, work weeks in excess of 40 hours may be required
• Commissioning of automated casting systems at customer sites
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering

General Characteristics:

• Acquires basic knowledge and develops skills in a specific practice area
• Applies prescribed and/or standard techniques and procedures in accordance with established criteria to perform assigned tasks
• Exercises limited judgment on details of work and in application of standard methods for conventional work
• Acquires an understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities

General Technical Responsibilities:

Designs a complete project, system, component, or process of standard complexity

Performs standard computa