Sr Electrical Engineer

The Hershey Company - Stuarts Draft, VA

Full-time

Stuarts Draft, VA

Food Manufacturing

About the position

The Sr Electrical Engineer / Sr Control Systems Specialist at Hershey's Stuarts Draft plant is responsible for providing technical support to ensure the operational efficiency of production lines and plant processes. This role involves troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining various control systems and electrical components in a high-speed manufacturing environment, primarily during the 3rd shift.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair plant controls systems, PLC's, motion controllers, HMIs, and electrical systems.
• Read and interpret drawings, diagrams, manuals, schematics, and blueprints to maintain and improve equipment uptime.
• Setup, configure, program, modify and improve PLC programs.
• Provide 2nd level technical support to plant electricians and technicians.
• Mentor maintenance, engineering, and manufacturing personnel on new and/or improved technologies.
• Coordinate with equipment vendors, engineering personnel, manufacturing supervision, and production employees in solution design and implementation efforts.
• Provide technical analyses, develop alternatives, and prepare recommendations for capital solutions to problems.
• Assist with power distribution switchgear maintenance and switching.
• Diagnose and repair or replace malfunctioning apparatus and components, such as transformers, circuit breakers, fuses, motors, generators, and fixtures.
• Document and communicate actions, irregularities, and participate in daily pass down discussions to maintain continuity among work teams.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair of plant electrical systems.
• Participate in the maintenance and upkeep of the Process Control Network security procedures and policies.
• Implement incremental improvement ideas to improve quality, reliability, uptime, and cost.
• Support and manage capital projects to eliminate controls obsolescence and improve plant quality, reliability, and uptime.
• Develop and provide technical training to Technical Assurance personnel.

Requirements

• Experience with processing and packaging equipment, controls systems, instrumentation, and computers.
• Knowledge of electrical power distribution including panelboards, motor control centers, bus ways, substations, and MV switchgear.
• Understanding of project management tools and requirements such as purchase requisitions, contractor time monitoring, internal orders, and project timelines.
• Understanding of local area networks, subnetting, and routing.
• Ability to operate, maintain, and troubleshoot DC drives and AC VFD's.
• Ability to design and troubleshoot control circuits, ladder logic, and Boolean logic.
• Knowledge of electrical control relaying, motor controls, DC, variable frequency, and servo drives.
• Ability to troubleshoot, modify and improve PLC and motion control programs.
• Knowledge of ControlNet, DeviceNet, DH+, Remote IO, Profibus, IO Link, and Ethernet networks.
• Ability to create, modify and troubleshoot Human Machine Interfaces (HMI's) and server-based client visualization systems.
• Ability to design, maintain and troubleshoot process control systems and Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers.
• Ability to troubleshoot, support and design servo systems.
• Ability to build process control computers, load PC operating systems and software, and troubleshoot PC's and servers.

Nice-to-haves

• Practical knowledge and relevant experience in a Food production environment (GMP, SQF).
• Hershey Mechatronics MT3 Skill Level.
• Understanding of PC's and PC skills (DOS, Windows, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, VMWare).
• CompTIA A+, CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+.
• ISA CCST, CCNA.
• PanelView, Wonderware, iFIX Ignition, Factory Talk View SE HMI Programming and Troubleshooting.
• Siemens PLC programming and troubleshooting.