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Electrical Controls Engineer (Full-Time)WEISS North America, Inc - Willoughby, OH (Cleveland, OH)Salary/ExemptJob DescriptionWEISS North America is seeking a Controls Engineer with strong troubleshooting skills to support our products from build stage through customer integration. Our customers are machine builders and integrators connecting WEISS technologies into their own machine architectures, and they rely on our support by phone, video conference, and email to get that interface working. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring the ability to work directly with electrical control systems, field devices, and automated machinery during assembly, commissioning, and customer support activities. The ideal candidate will demonstrate depth in either the Rockwell or the Siemens ecosystem, with real comfort in networking, logic sequencing, and troubleshooting. Parallel skills must include safe electrical practice and sound engineering fundamentals, along with the patience and temperament to walk a customer through correcting a problem while their production line is down and timing is critical.The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years' experience of motion control components and controls, machinery, and factory automation equipment. The Controls Engineer must have a strong fundamental knowledge of control and electrical system design and its application in automated industrial designs. The ability to understand equipment integration and machine building is key in this position. This position does require travel for service, up to 15%.BenefitsFull-time positionMedical, dental, vision, and life insurance on the 31st day of employment401K eligibility begins after the 60th day of employmentPay is bi-weeklyGenerous PTO policyPay Range: $90,000 - $115,000Job Responsibilities - Electrical Controls EngineerTroubleshooting & Customer SupportServe as a primary technical resource for Sales, production, and customers on controls, motion, and electrical issuesProvide remote support to customer engineering teams integrating our units into their machine systems - drive setup, encoder feedback, homing, safety interfacing, and communication to their controllerDiagnose faults across electrical, controls, drive, network, and instrumentation domains and drive them to resolutionPerform root cause analysis and feed corrective action back into design, documentation, and the parent factoryTravel to customer sites as needed for startup, commissioning, and escalated field issuesPanel Design, Wiring & TestDevelop control panel layouts and enclosure designs; produce and revise schematics in AutoCAD Electrical, SOLIDWORKS Electrical, or equivalentSpecify and verify wiring, motor connections, connectivity, grounding, and shielding for servo and VFD applicationsPower up, configure, and functionally test systems prior to shipment; execute and document Factory Acceptance TestingSupport the production and assembly floor with test equipment and project-related electrical questions, issues, and failuresControls & Motion EngineeringConfigure, program, and troubleshoot PLC logic and HMI applicationsSize and select motors, drives, and machine power distribution - transformers, overcurrent protection, and conductor sizing.Configure drives and encoder feedback (various coded incremental and absolute); perform tuning, homing, and network setupFollowing training from WEISS, become a key technical resource in W.A.S. (WEISS Application Software) for product support and controls offeringsSafety, Code Compliance & DocumentationWork safely on and around systems operating up to 1000 V, including three-phase distribution and servo DC bus circuits; apply NFPA 70E practice, lockout/tagout, and stored energy verificationApply NFPA 79, NFPA 70 (NEC), and UL 508A to panel design and machine wiring; support UL field evaluationsMaintain schematics, revisions, test records, and customer turnover documentation; contribute to company standards and SOPsPerform other miscellane