What You Will Do

Design cool heavy-lifting equipment - hard core, break out the text books and calculators engineering

Controls Designer

Full Job Description

- Perform calculations required for the winch or hoist to be engineered and lead the process of advance material requisitions to get key components on order
- Create highly-engineered, no-two-projects-are-the-same designs
- Witness the manufacturing and testing of equipment you designed to help shape the world's infrastructure, which is involved in some of the biggest, coolest projects in the world
- Prepare concept, design and production drawings with supporting calculations and material data ensuring that designs meet specification requirements and manufacturing capabilities
- Provide support in checking details, assemblies and BOMs for assigned projects
- Specify system components or direct modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design standards and performance specifications
- Write performance requirements for product development or engineering projects
- Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports related to mechanical, hydraulic and / or electrical systems
- Recommend design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions
- Apply fundamental engineering principles along with advanced analytical techniques throughout the design process
- Maintain thorough documentation for all aspects of assigned projects




- Confer with engineers and other personnel to resolve system malfunctions, production issues, or challenges and provide technical information
- Investigate equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation and make recommendations for improvement
- Work with manufacturing and engineering teams to provide cost effective solutions to design challenges
- Domestic and international travel, approximately 25%, to commission equipment, train customers, other support as required
- Programming using Ladder Logic, Function Blocks and Structural Text (experience with C programming and/or Visual Basic is beneficial)
- Component selection, programming and troubleshooting PLC products and variable frequency drives
- Interface controls to hydraulic systems, both closed loop and open loop, including electro-hydraulic controls; PLC controls include control panels, panel view interfaces, PLC programming

Who You Are

- You thrive on challenging yourself to grow and want to work with a team that will push you, trust you, and hold you accountable
- Intellectually curious, passionate about learning and being the best
- Previous design experience engineering capital equipment in a manufacturing setting
- Sense of urgency, highly responsive and oriented towards action
- Can-do attitude, and respond in all situations with a positive and energized attitude
- Post-secondary education in Engineering

📌 Controls Designer (Canada)
🏢 W3Global
📍 Canada