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PLC and Data Automation Engineer

Tinley Park, Illinois

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As a part of our Engineering team, you’ll be our go-to when it comes to tools, equipment and recommending design and materials improvements. You'll recommend, select and implement new technology for our manufacturing processes. As part of your day-to-day, you'll troubleshoot equipment issues and oversee the engineering side of plant projects to help us meet and improve our efficiency goals. This is your opportunity to participate in a high-level capacity while still doing hands-on work.

Ready for a career that’ll spotlight your skillset? Read our full description to see if you’re a fit.

PLC and Data Automation Engineer

Tinley Park, Illinois

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Overview

Joining Crown means joining a global leader in the design and production of packaging. In this role, it’ll be up to you to measure, report, maintain and improve on how things are done. Given the workplace setting, the ideal candidate will have experience in a production setting, ideally, in a high-speed manufacturing operation. Crown’s looking for someone who has the ability to be a team player and knows when they’re needed to take on supervisory responsibilities.

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Success Profile

This candidate will be methodical in their approach but big picture when it comes to maintaining efficiency and workplace materials. In addition to mechanical expertise, working knowledge of Six Sigma and digital tools for documentation and design is a plus.

  • Analytical
  • Organized
  • Logical
  • Strategic
  • Problem solver
  • Responsible

Our Culture

At Crown, we’re on a mission to create the shape of things to come. That means shaping quality packaging with integrity, making products that’ll last, and building careers with longevity. We’re invested in doing the work to ensure all employees are treated fairly and are compensated with the benefits, pay, learning resources, and welcoming environment they deserve.

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Wafic El-Kara Wafic El-Kara

“At Crown, every day is a unique and exciting journey, where no two days are the same. The team's unity creates a family-like environment that fosters seamless collaboration. Learning from colleagues with extensive experience is a privilege that significantly contributes to my growth.”

Wafic El-Kara

Senior Manager, Production Engineering Food Packaging Division, North America

Benefits

In this salaried role, you’ll be eligible for company-paid health insurance and our 401(k) Savings Plan with match (offered only after 30 days of employment). In some cases, you may even be eligible for a safety gear allowance.

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401(k)

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Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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PTO

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Tuition Reimbursement

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Free Company-Paid Health Insurance

Responsibilities

Purpose of the job:

We are an enthusiastic, diverse group of engineers and software developers; responsible for building, deploying, maintaining and improving bespoke software to support the Crown can manufacturing business.

The scope of work is growing, and as a result, we need more people to support the system, in collaboration with the factories, corporate team, commissioning engineers, suppliers etc.

Key Responsibilities and accountabilities:

  • Responsible for the deployment of Crown in-house built Manufacturing Execution System to Crown factories globally, from surveying the factory and building a scope of work, to identify missing data / hardware, to coding of the PLCs, right through to the configuration of the website, and validating the data.
  • Responsible for the maintenance of the system – working with factories across the world to fault find issues with the data, whether it’s a faulty sensor, or a typo in the website configuration.
  • Responsible for the continuous improvement of the system – working with the factories to identify improvement opportunities for the system, researching possible solutions, and working with the software developers to implement them.
  • Responsible for working with the plants and other teams to use the data to generate conclusions and create actionable insights.


Professional and academic
qualifications

Essential

Desirable

  • Degree level or an equivalent higher level qualification in electrical and control engineering or closely related discipline is preferred. 
  • Qualifications will be considered in conjunction with relevant knowledge and experience.

Previous experience

Essential

Desirable

  • Minimum 2 years proven ability in the automation / MES / SCADA systems for machines in factories

Skills and competencies

Essential

Desirable

  • Knowledge of MES systems – how the data will flow from the PLC to the website
  • Knowledge of Allen Bradley PLC programming – editing PLC programs to gather data from the machines
  • Knowledge of networking - how the data flows from the PLC, through switches, to be stored on a server database (SQL).
  • Understanding of factories and general factory equipment automation and instrumentation – sensors, meters, motors etc.
  • Project management experience – interacting with multiple parties (plant, IT, corporate, commissioning engineers, continuous improvement teams, suppliers etc.), keeping stakeholders informed, developing schedules.
  • Knowledge of data analytics – how to present data to that it is useful to the user (e.g. Microsoft Excel, PowerBI).
  • Experience of the design process from specification through to implementation and final validation
  • Knowledge communication protocols – how to gather data from different systems (PLCs, IoT sensors, etc.) using different methods of communication protocol (Modbus, OPC UA etc.)

Personal attributes

Essential

Desirable

  • Effective communicator at all levels with ability to promote and present task progress
  • Proven ability to work effectively within a technical team
  • Promotes and upholds exemplary safe working practices at all times
  • Ability and ambition to develop within role

Languages

Essential

Desirable

  • Some competence in a foreign language (Spanish)

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