Company:
SWRI
Location: San Antonio
Closing Date: 22/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
- Join the Robotics Department to contribute to building advanced capabilities, technologies and solutions in the field of industrial robotics and automation that solve real-world challenges faced by our customers.
- Support mechanical design, controls, software development, and hardware integration on industrial robots, cobots, automation control hardware, and automated vehicles. Learn and work on a team with some of the brightest minds in robotics.
- Activities will include work primarily at SwRI facilities/laboratories; meetings as well as deployment efforts may occur at commercial and government client facilities.
- Visit to learn about some of the work we do
- Participate in equipment development, balance product specifications, process control requirements, component selections, control architecture, cost, and requirements.
- Design system power distribution, control architecture, and system field cabling/interconnect.
- Design electrical panels using EPlan Electrical CAD. Design safety interlock system.
- Implement safety systems for safeguarding robots, gantries, and custom equipment.
- Enforce application of standards such as NFPA, NEC, and IEC.
- Coordinate with peers in other engineering groups to ensure design criteria is synchronized within all disciplines to meet requirements.
- Work closely with project managers to ensure requirements and specifications are translated into final design.
- Organize and manage vendor on control related deliverable to ensure standards and specifications are met.
- Debug and modify electrical system related issues during system testing and commissioning.
- Communicate effectively with internal team, external clients, and industry partners and coordinate individual performance goals and objectives set by the organization.
- Requires a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Technology or related Engineering Technology degree
- 0-6 years: Must have relevant academic and/or internship experience in Electrical Engineering Technology and in the areas noted below.
- Proficient with Eplan Electrical P8 or equivalent for designing electrical control panel, control system wiring, & instrumentation. In depth knowledge Electrical & Safety Standards. Familiar with safety machinery & process design.
- Proficient with selecting appropriate circuit protectors, wire and cable, sensors, safety hardware, PLC hardware, remote I/O, VFD, industrial PDP components, servo systems & key electrical control components.
- Familiar with Beckhoff, Allen Bradly, Siemens, or other PLCs for overall control system project implementation. Experience transitioning products from prototype to production.
- A valid/clear driver's license is required.
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