Controls Project Engineer- Airport Technologies

Controls Project Engineer- Airport Technologies

Job Location

US-MI-Novi

# of Openings

Company Division

APUS

Overview

Daifuku Airport America Corporation is a subsidiary of Daifuku North America a group company of Daifuku in Japan - the largest material handling company in the world. Our advanced systems move everything from car bodies at auto plants to luggage at airports to packaged goods at warehouses. We are known as experts in engineering, manufacturing, and servicing innovative automated materials handling systems including conveyors, automatic guided vehicles, automated storage & retrieval systems, and integrated controls.

Daifuku Airport America Corporation (Daifuku) is the world class leader in design, build, and installation of large scale, airport baggage conveyor security systems. This division specialize in traditional baggage systems as well as innovative airport material handling.

Our Controls Project Engineers average 15 years of experience because we value mentorship, growth, collaboration, and flexibility. Members of our team view our work as a career. We can offer you the opportunity to bring your creativity to our innovative systems. Be a part of the best, most experienced team in the industry.

The company is currently seeking an experienced Controls Project Engineer .

Responsibilities

The Project Engineer manages the controls development and delivery of airport baggage security systems. You will partner with the project manager, engineering staff and our customer to deliver a successful project. You will lead a team designing electrical device layouts, control panel drawings, wiring schematics, descriptions of operations, PLC programming, and graphical reporting systems.

Major Areas of Responsibility

Supervising a team of Controls Engineer employees including performance revies, timecards, and adherence to employment requirements.

• Executing projects from conception through client handover.
• Coordinating a team of controls engineers and detailers in cooperation with a mechanical engineering team and project management.
• Managing requirements, integration, and configuration changes throughout projects.
• Engaging team members by delegation of work both on a long term and on a day-to-day basis.
• Creatively solving problems to optimize resources, scheduling, and budget.
• Meet timelines to ensure projects stay on schedule and on budget.
• Coaching team members on project execution and proposing technical solutions for complex problems.
• Overseeing system functionality and technical quality of automated applications.
• Attend design review meetings with the customer.
• Support proposals and customer inquiries. Estimate new project work.
• Identifying and implementing improvement initiatives.

Basic Knowledge

Qualifications

Basic Skills & Abilities

Education & Experience

Demonstrated Physical Abilities

Remain stationary for 50% of the time; move / traverse throughout the office to access file cabinets and office equipment; operate a computer and other productivity machinery; inspect documents; communicate with others through talking / hearing; read / identify / assess forms and correspondence.

Daifuku Airport America Corporation is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled, and federal sub / contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, protected veteran status, marital status or medical condition. If you'd like to view a copy of the company's affirmative action plan or policy statement, please call 248-553-1000.

Daifuku Airport America Corporation offers an excellent compensation package including great benefits such as excellent medical, vision, and dental insurance, paid vacation time, paid sick time, and paid holidays, 401K, Flexible Spending Programs, and more.

At this time our company only receives applications online. If you need assistance applying online to this position, please call 248-553-1000 and leave a message and your call will be returned.