Title: Corporate Electrical and Controls Engineer, 1st Shift Req ID: 9689
City, State: Westfield, WI
Reports to: Corporate Project Engineer
Classification: Exempt
The Corporate Electrical and Controls Engineer will be a resource across Brakebush Brothers multi-plants as a key designer and researcher of technical solutions and engineering support. This role plays an integral part in designing and implementing improvements to our industrial power distribution, incident energy, new equipment, and control systems.
Essential Functions:
Design industrial control systems for all facilities include performing a comprehensive assessment of a machine to run it safely and efficiently. Create control system from scratch; from panel layout and schematics, heat load calculations, SCCR studies, to ground up programming of the control and interface software.
Project Management leads capital projects from conception to completion. This includes working with vendors on getting quotes and getting items purchased for the project ensuring projects are on time and stay within budget.
Modify, audit, update and manage control system programs across all facilities, management of controls assets by request and need of the company. Includes updating firmware, security protocols, system integrations, etc.
Design industrial power distribution systems for multiple facilities; including drawing and updating single line diagrams (1-lines). Collaborate with lead Engineer and multiple facilities to design schedules that meet project requirements and deadlines.
Conduct calculations and comprehensive site surveys of incident energy to aid system design, troubleshooting issues, and recommend improvements.
Review new equipment designs and system performance criteria; identify solutions, risk and technical guidance with equipment implementation and utilization. Collaborates with internal partners, vendors and contractors and serves as subject matter experts for them to ensure products and designs meet the electrical supply needs of all facilities. Includes new equipment commissioning.
Stays current with industry regulations and codes related to facility and equipment system design and operations, including 508UL Evaluate new control technologies on the market and how they may integrate into our systems to increase reliability, safety, and efficiency.
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Supervisory Responsibility: No supervisory duties.
Work Environment: Primarily office environment, with requirement to work in wide variations in environment temperature (-40-degree Freezers, 32-degree coolers, 40-degree production area, wet cold environment); noise, slippery floors and moving equipment in operations setting.
Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing, sitting, lifting, climbing ladders, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.
Position Type: This is an exempt role; may be asked to change schedule and work ‘off’ shifts.
Travel: Travel is required to our other production facilities as needed (up to 20%). All travel is in continental US; most would require overnight stays.
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test and background check are required.
Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to provide or assume work sponsorship of employment visas.
Brakebush is committed to adhering to compliance and applicable pay transparency laws in all states where we operate and any other states where we have a legal obligation.
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Brakebush Brothers, Inc. privately owned and U.S. operated since 1925, is a value-added processor of great tasting chicken products. We have processing facilities in Westfield, Wisconsin (headquarters); Irving, Texas; Wells, Minnesota; Mocksville, North Carolina; and Hartwell, GA; along with our own Transportation fleet. Our Westfield and Irving facilities are state of the art operations and provide a complete line of further processed chicken with over 200 products for Foodservice, Industrial, and Chain accounts. We have multiple production lines with capacities ranging from 5,000 to over 10,000 pounds per hour. We offer the products, programs, promotions and culinary support to help you grow your business. Brakebush takes pride in being a socially responsible manufacturer.
Best practices in food safety are paramount to operating a best-in-class food processing facility. That’s why we take a completely transparent approach to safety, one that helps instill confidence and trust. We have an aggressive environmental pathogen testing program and participation in a full array of plant audits. We have multiple technologies, including x-ray bone detection equipment, ensure that our products are among the safest in the industry.
Brakebush has always strived to be a leader in our industry, from new technology to customer expectations, and sustainability is no different. As a company, we have evaluated every aspect of our costs to maintain control over them. If there is a better, more efficient and less impactful way to do something we have made those changes and will continue to look at ways to improve. We are in a rural setting, in a small community, in a small county in Wisconsin and have always known that it is our responsibility to make a small environmental impact while making a very positive impact on our community. We have strived to be a leader in every aspect of our business and to be a positive example in our community.
