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Head of electrical department.

•Manage electrical department including project management and scheduling of electrical engineering and panel building. •Design industrial control panels with intrinsically safe circuit extensions for Aerosol and BOV filling machinery to comply with UL508A and UL698A. Specify electrical hardware and equipment for use in hazardous classified locations such as explosion-proof or intrinsically safe equipment.•Design turnkey control systems for conventional aerosol and bag-on-valve filling machinery including panels related to hazardous locations and according to NFPA-79, NFPA 70 NEC. Project involvement from IO list to commissioning support, including programming, control panel layout, BOM and wiring schematics. •Involved in process engineering for bath heating systems, including generating energy balances, P&IDS and working with vendors to specify process instrumentation, valves, pumps, heat exchangers and stainless & carbon steel piping.•Design using AutoCAD Electrical 2018, including enclosure and subpanel layouts, cutouts, junction box locations, wiring diagrams, BOM, safety relay wiring, P&IDs, electrical interconnect drawings for electrical contractors, safety device maps, legend plates & field terminations. •Acting OEM Gatekeeper and main interface with UL to maintain MBC's UL508A panel shop certification. Trained by UL in UL508A for MBC’s initial certificate of compliance. Designed and supervised build of MBCs first UL508A and UL698A compliant control panels. Create and maintain UL listed and recognized components databases for MBC machine control panels. •Create internal part numbers, determine vendor and price, & issue POs, using company ERP system for all electrical hardware and machine instruments and sensors required for building filling machines and their electrical control panels.•Program machine PLCs, HMIs, Drives, safety & temperature controllers, data loggers, Ethernet switches, transmitters, positioners etc.

•Create instrument/controller wiring diagrams using AutoCAD Electrical to be used for the production of coffee roasting systems. Create assembly documents detailing wiring of motors, controllers, and operator/pushbutton panels.•Wire control panels, motors & instruments used in commercial roasters as well as direct local electricians in the proper wiring and connection of the roaster for industrial coffee roasting equipment. •Perform mechanical work on coffee roasting equipment, including mechanical burner replacement, dust collector maintenance, and motor mounting/replacing.•Travel to customer sites as required to fix or implement control changes on roaster systems. Troubleshoot electrical issues as they arise on the shop floor and on service calls. Train production technicians in all electrical aspects of assembling shop roasters. Provide telephone and VPN support to customers to assist with issue resolution of roasters systems. •Set up VPN communications with roaster system PLCs over Ethernet TCP/IP or DH485 (RS-232).•Development of roasting systems P&ID'S using AutoCAD from process flow diagrams and other documents. IO list development.•Write and troubleshoot PLC code using RSLogix500 and RSLogix5000. Experience with Allen Bradley SLC 5/03, SLC 5/05, Micrologix, and CompactLogix L33ER and L35E.•Design motor control, I/O and operator control panels for automation of coffee processing systems. Generate controls drawings and control panel hardware layout. •Developed bill of materials for control panels, including roaster instruments and panel wires, cables and fittings. •Develop HMI/SCADA screens using Allen Bradley FactoryTalk View Studio-Machine Edition for PanelView. •Parameter setup of PowerFlex 525 VFDs and various programmable sensors/meters. Perform instrument calibration using 4 to 20mA sourcing meters. •Perform IO checkout of roaster systems including, rotation verification of equipment motors, & troubleshooting of incorrect process wiring.

• Support installation and commissioning activities in industrial manufacturing environments and provide technical support, applications development and deployment of engineered solutions. • Capable of implementing control methodology in DCS, PLC, HMI and SCADA platforms with a basic understanding of the programming language. Varying range of experience with Wonderware’s Archestra & InTouch, Rockwell Automation's RSLogix5 & RSLogix5000 (PLC5 and Control/Compact Logix,) GE Automation's Cimplicity, Siemens' PCS7, Inductive Automation's Ignition, and Honeywell’s Experion. • Knowledgeable of control system architecture including hardware, software, instrumentation and networking equipment. • Experience in industrial environments with field deployment of newly developed HMI screens, loop checking, startup, troubleshooting and commissioning support. • Demonstrates knowledge in control panels through ability to read and create electrical/panel hardware drawings and understand panel functionality. • Develops I/O lists from customer P&IDs, and assigns I/O PLC addresses.

• Worked with scientists, production managers, controls engineers, consultant firms and outside vendors to develop process design packages and accomplished company's algae growth and processing goals. • Analyzed and provided design solutions to optimize existing algae plant process systems by installing gauges and instrumentation to evaluate new systems performance parameters such as but not limited to microfiltration flux data and heat transfer data of heat exchangers. • Wrote control narratives and coordinated with electricians and controls engineers to create and modify existing PLCs as well as brought new equipment power.• Supported equipment start-ups by providing training to operations personnel and troubleshooting in the field as well as participated in new project commissioning and loop checking. • Sized and purchased equipment for the Gilbert algae research facility and demonstration plant including several types of heat exchangers, pumps and VFDs, various configurations of control and manual valves, pneumatic and electric actuators, reverse osmosis and pretreatment systems, ultraviolet systems, cross-flow microfiltration membrane systems, centrifuges, boilers and auxiliary systems, chillers, compressed air systems, dry product conveyors and fillers, flow meters, transmitters, tanks, piping, fittings and more.• Identified new piping needs or errors, developed P&ID redlines and as-builts post construction, followed up with issues to ensure piping corrections.

• Designed protocols for material compatibility testing of company reagent formulations with wetted instrument materials according to ASTM standards. • Performed experiments using various polymers and alloys immersed in proprietary reagent formulations to aid scientist and engineers in as part of product development of Hematoxylin & Eosin automated staining instruments.• Produced material compatibility charts for Ventana-specific reagents.

• Develop and conduct specialized lessons for college students to improve student understanding of specified subjects and available technical resources (i.e. calculators or Microsoft Excel)• Certified to tutor 20 subjects including sciences such as chemistry, biology & physics as well as mathematics from algebra to differential equations

• Hands-on experience manufacturing company-invented liquid leak sensors, soldered and machined components of sensor devices using a variety of machinery (lathe, milling machine) • Assisted with the product development of Lokopod LP-2750 liquid leak sensors by optimizing load cell coating thickness, calibration, and field testing

• Self-directed research, including hardware and software troubleshooting of the Astoria Analyzer (micro-segmented flow analyzer) to perform automated dilutions• Performed analysis of chlorinated water samples using a portable spectrophotometer, as well as tested local drinking water samples for E.coli and heterotophic plate count