Principal Controls Engineer

Northrop Grumman, Space Systems, is currently seeking a Principal Controls Engineer to support our Process Engineering team at the Clearfield and Copper Crossing Utah facility. 

The selected candidate will support the Case Value Stream in Clearfield Utah.

Responsibilities Include:

• Integrate equipment for robotics, PLC’s, servo drives, and instrumentation.

• Program Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) to control a variety of processes, machine tools, and robotics.  Allen Bradley PLC and HMI programming experience preferred.

  • Work with the Process Owner and Operation Personnel to test new/modified PLC/HMI programs prior to Implementation.

  • Work with the process owner to optimize the control system with process improvements.

  • Work with the Process Owner and Operation Personnel to test new/modified PLC/HMI programs prior to Implementation.

  • Develop automated recipes to error proof the system and reduce operator variability for process specific parts.

  • Integrate process data with Canary Historian / Thingworx / Kepware

  • Provide Line Stoppage Support for PLC controlled processes.

• Program variable frequency drives (VFD) for all types of motor control applications.

• CNC machine troubleshooting and programming.

• Work with Maintenance, Operations, and other Engineers to troubleshoot.

• Work as a team with the Electrical Design / Controls Engineers on upgrades / new controls systems.

• Support various control systems on plant (e.g. presses, autoclaves, mixers)—involving troubleshooting, re-programming, adding software enhancements, etc. in support of Operations.

• Manage upgrades to process related computers.

• Implement secure network connections to manufacturing equipment.

• Work closely with Infrastructure

• Follow company software development lifecycle

• Contribute to programming standards and best practice

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, or other closely related technical degree, plus 5+ years of experience in Controls Engineering.

  • This position may be filled at a higher level requiring a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, or other closely related technical degree, plus 9+ years of experience in Controls Engineering.

• Strong desire to work with control processes.

• PLC systems and programming experience.

• A desire to support and improve Manufacturing processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Programming

  • ThingWorx (JavaScript)

  • LabView

  • C#

  • Allen Bradley Logix 5000 / Studio

  • Allen Bradley FTVS HMI

  • Beckhoff PLC

  • Python

  • FANUC robot programming

• Hardware

  • Excellent knowledge of Allen Bradley PLC platform(s)

  • Knowledge of basic sensors, contactors, relays, VFD, Servo, etc…

  • Knowledge of Beckhoff PLC platform(s)

• Networking skills

  • VLAN

  • Firewall rules

  • Troubleshooting

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