Control System Engineer

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Job Description:

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Role Definition
Designs, develops, and enhances electro-mechanical systems and mechatronic devices to optimize products and systems.

Responsibilities

• Designing advanced electrical control systems and integrating electrical and mechanical systems.

• Designing and implementing software and procedures to control and enhance electro-mechanical systems and mechatronic devices performance in collaboration with scientists.

• Designing and prototyping mechatronic devices with motors, solenoids, gears, sensors, and springs.

• Identify and address areas of product weakness in finished products.

• Requires a degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum.

Degree Requirement
Degree required

Skill Descriptors
Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Basic Understanding:

• Names specific tools or techniques that can be used to support the analytical thinking process.

• Describes specific software applications or products used for business analytics.

• Gives examples of how analytical thinking has been used to resolve problems.

• Helps others research and learn more about business analytics tools and applications.

Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Uses comparisons to familiar ideas when introducing a technical or novel feature.

• Separates fundamental concepts from supporting details in explaining a product or service.

• Explains products and services with little or no use of technical jargon or advanced vocabulary.

• Emphasizes the most important facts or features of a product or service.

• Perceives lack of audience comprehension; further simplifies explanation when needed.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Embedded Systems: Knowledge of embedded systems and their applications; ability to develop embedded systems with varying levels of complexity to control the operations of the machine it is embedded within.
Level Basic Understanding:

• Cites examples of embedded systems used in daily operation.

• Explains the major characteristics and components of embedded systems.

• Highlights the several applications of embedded systems.

• Lists out the advantages and disadvantages associated with embedded systems.

Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Level Basic Understanding:

• Cites examples of functional and non-functional requirements.

• Describes basic concepts and major activities associated with requirements analysis.

• Explains the life cycle context and scope of requirements analysis.

• Explains the structure and components of effective requirements analysis documents.

Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.
Level Basic Understanding:

• Describes problem identification, reporting and escalation procedures.

• Explains the underlying concept of using a systematic approach to solve technical problems.

• Identifies available resources and support systems for troubleshooting.

• Describes common hardware, software and communication problems; finds ways to resolve issues.

Product Development in Manufacturing: Knowledge of methodologies, tools and techniques of product development; ability to design, build and manage manufacturing of new products.
Level Basic Understanding:

• Identifies current and prior design and development successes and failures in the organization.

• Summarizes the overall process for developing a new product or service for the organization.

• Names the organizational business units that have input into the development process.

• Describes the basic tools used for design and development.

Product Testing: Knowledge of product testing approaches, techniques and tools; ability to design, plan and execute testing strategies and tactics to ensure product quality at all stages of manufacturing.
Level Basic Understanding:

• Describes key features and aspects of a specific testing discipline or methodology.

• Describes common errors that are uncovered by product testing.

• Cites examples of testing tools and practices currently in use.

• Names key documentation (paper, audio, video) required during the testing process.

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