Controls, Applications Engineer

The Controls, Applications Engineer owns the controls scope and its price.

Every system we sell has an electrical and controls scope: panels, drives, devices, network, safety and the installation labor behind them. The Controls, Applications Engineer designs that architecture at concept level, prices it, and documents the basis well enough that it can be reviewed and then built.

The role works alongside the Application Engineer on the mechanical scope and the Solutions Engineer on the operational flow the controls have to serve. Where the requirement cannot be satisfied by application of standard architecture, the answer is escalation, not invention.

Character qualifications

Innovation - We create a culture of relentless improvement of solutions and processes to make every day better.

Integrity - We are open, honest, and committed to giving the straight story every time.

Service - We serve our clients, families, communities, and most importantly our people who are empowered and safe in making decisions and taking actions that dare to make us better.

Ownership - We take full, personal, individual responsibility for our actions and our work., * Decide how Fives equipment answers the requirement, and size and select it to hit throughput, product profile and operating hours at a price that wins.

• Own the electrical and controls architecture: panels, I/O, network and safety.

Estimating & cost

• Build the complete electrical estimate for the scope: panels, devices and installation labor.
• Develop the bill of material.
• Document cost drivers, assumptions, exclusions and risk allowances well enough that another engineer can review the estimate without rebuilding it.

Customer & supply

• Obtain and evaluate vendor and subcontractor pricing, and recommend selection.

Execution & turnover

• Hand execution a package they can build from: the reasoning and assumptions, not only the drawings.

Contributes to

• Reviewing the RFP, contract and statement of work for risk
• The bid/no-bid technical recommendation
• Process and material flow design across functional areas
• Block-level layout and technology class per area
• Third-party and partner selection
• Layout drawings
• The manifest and equipment list
• Technology feasibility evaluation
• Standard-hours and cost-data studies
• Estimating tool and SAP improvement
• CRD authorship
• Technical writing, description of operation and scope
• Specification compliance and acceptance criteria
• Risk assessment
• Customer meetings with Sales
• The technical basis for acceptance criteria and test procedures
• Technical support to the Project Manager in early phases
• The standardization program and product classification

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 to 8 years in electrical design, controls engineering or electrical estimating for industrial systems.
• Required: demonstrated ownership of an electrical estimate, including panels, devices and installation labor.
• Required: working knowledge of PLC and controls architecture, I/O counts, network topology and machine safety.
• Preferred, not required: material handling, conveyor or sortation experience. Candidates from adjacent industrial-automation sectors are expressly welcome.
• Familiarity with applicable electrical codes and standards. AutoCAD Electrical or equivalent. Strong Excel; SAP exposure a plus., Language. Reads and interprets electrical specifications, codes, single-line diagrams, contracts and statements of work. Explains a controls architecture to a mechanical audience and to a customer. Mathematical. Load, power and I/O calculations. Applies ratios, percentages and proportions to practical cost problems. Reasoning. Defines problems, collects data, establishes facts, and draws valid conclusions from incomplete information, stating the assumptions used to get there.

The mechanical scope, equipment selection, detailed layout and manifest The electrical and controls architecture and its estimate Solutions Engineer The operational flow, rates and decision points The controls architecture that serves them Senior Controls Application Engineer The electrical estimating standard and sign-off The estimate on your bid Offering Manager Proposal schedule, vendor RFQ packages, workload prioritization The electrical content and its quality Operations / detailed engineering Detailed design and field execution The handoff package and the reasoning inside it