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Atlantic Packaging Products

Specialist, Automation Controls Engineering

Atlantic Packaging Products, Mississauga, ON


The Role:

Automation Controls Engineering Specialist will provide Controls related engineering support for 2 West Side Atlantic Plants. The job function is to provide Automation Controls Technical Expertise for our Mississauga Plant and Hannon Plant (Ancaster). This is a full-time day position with the possibility of emergency support for our 24/5 operations. Work between 2 Plants (Ancaster and Mississauga). Base Office or Offices in both plants TBD.

Main Job Function

  • Act as subject expert in diagnostics for complex issues that cannot be solved by our internal Electricians.
  • Technical Support when machine is down is top priority (24/5)
  • Provide cross training to electricians when time permits and or during debugging complex problems. Ongoing Job Functions (80% of the time)
  • Back-ups of; PLC, HMIs and Drives.
  • Obtain missing files for assets from OEMs (Programs, Schematics, Parts Lists, Manuals,,, in electronic format) - Maintaining Engineering Software (over 50 software packages) on Controls Engineering Laptops.
  • Ensure Engineering Controls Laptops can connect to numerous devices (Drives, PLCs, HMIs) mainly Allen Bradely and Siemens
  • Training of Electricians when and if time permits.


Education Required

  • Technologist, Engineer, or Electrician with 7 years OEM experience Experience Required
  • Technologist or Engineer must have minimum of 5 years OEM experience preferably commissioning complex systems with Allen Bradley and Siemens PLCs and HMIs
  • Electrician with a minimum of 7 years OEM experience preferably commissioning complex systems with Allen Bradley and Siemens PLCs and HMIs Candidates with OEM experience (Controls Programming and or Commissioning) is preferred.


Hardware and Software Experience

  • Ideal candidate has experience commissioning complex systems with Allen Bradley and Siemens PLCs and HMIs


PLCs (Allen Bradley) Hardware

  • SLC 500 Series, SLC 501, SLC 503, SLC 504, MICROLOGIX 1400, MICROLOGIX 1500, CompactLogix, GuardLogix Software
  • RSLogix 500, Studio 5000 Standard
  • Communications
  • RSNetworx, RSLinx


PLCs (Siemens)

  • Hardware
  • SIMATIC S7-300, SIMATIC S7-400, SIMATIC S7-1200, SIMATIC S7-1500
  • Software
  • STEP 7-Micro/WIN, SIMATIC STEP 7 Professional (TIA Portal)
  • Communications
  • PROFIBUS DP, PROFINET


Drives

  • Drives (LENZE)
  • Lenze 8200, Lenze 9300
  • Drives (Allen Bradley)
  • PowerFlex 4, POWERFLEX 40