Engineer I, Controls

Novolex Controls Engineering Support

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries, including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Our innovative product portfolio is designed to meet the diverse needs of businesses worldwide and the millions of customers they serve. Our extensive manufacturing network spans North America and Europe, including two world-class plastic film recycling centers.

Evergreen Packaging Equipment is located in the city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with close proximity to Chicago. Initially begun in 1880 to service the dairy industry, EPE now manufactures gable-top carton filling machines, making Evergreen Packaging a fully vertically integrated carton provider for its customers. EPE has 170 team members and now has 1300 installed machines in over 50 countries. Our Social Responsibility platform features a robust, employee-led Give Back program, which includes a matching gifts plan, community grants initiative, and our annual Company-wide Month of Action campaign.

Responsibilities

This role exists to provide controls engineering support to assigned product lines. The key customers are the Process Centered Owner, manufacturing, purchasing and vendors, Technical Service Team, Field Service, and our end customers. The deliverables from this role are electrical engineering design, programming for logic controllers and visualization interface, and technical support.

• For assigned product lines, maintain a fully documented and accurate electrical design and control program that complies with established Evergreen and industry standards.
• Maintain a cost balance for the electrical design that achieves the lowest base cost with the highest manufacturing efficiency and lowest warranty. This balance should also account for the highest operational efficiency and lowest maintenance requirement.
• Produce electrical design/program changes to support sale orders, product improvements, and change requests/non-conformances for assigned product lines.
• Provide timely, complete, and consistent technical support to internal and external business customers as required in support of assigned product lines.
• Support the Engineering Team to increase output, standardization, and repeatability of designs and programs through developing and continuously improving engineering tools and work processes.
• Maintain at minimum a 30-day backlog of all assigned non-conformances.

Skills and Competencies

Action Oriented, Organizing, Priority Setting, Problem Solving, Drive for Results, Time Management, Customer Focus, Interpersonal Savvy, Dealing with Ambiguity, Functional Technical skills, Learning on the fly, Self Development

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience Requirements (Qualifications)

• Required: Degreed Engineer (preferably electrical, will consider mechanical or chemical). 0-2 years professional control systems experience. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to produce results. Demonstrated ability to work well with people. Demonstrated ability to learn.
• Desirable: CAD experience – AutoCAD or SolidWorks preferred. Industrial control electrical design experience. Industrial control programming experience. Electrical system and control program troubleshooting experience. Manufacturing experience. Good understanding of mechanical systems. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

Novolex is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Novolex is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, religion, creed, age national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, veteran status or other characteristics or statuses protected by law.