Job Posting for Controls Software Engineer at Climate by Design
At Climate by Design International, we work in a team environment to create custom HVAC equipment to tightly control our customer’s critical climates in hospitals, food production, aerospace infrastructure, historical document preservation, disaster recovery, and ice arenas. Consider joining a 30-year-old, vertically integrated, manufacturing company with a youthful spirit in constant growth. CDI’s market breadth protects us from recessions, and significant growth is being driven by the need to create critical climates for Electric Vehicle battery production facilities in North America.
The Senior Controls Software Engineer provides technical leadership and subject matter expertise to create and implement new software standards, modular code, and new processes that enable CDI to scale engineering and production without sacrificing our core value of putting our customer’s critical climate first via customization.
Major roles and responsibilities:
Design for flexibility / modularity. Remove recurring programming costs by standardizing at a level that allows for flexibility for our customers while maintaining a low cost design. Enable less experienced engineers to create unique world-class systems from standard modules/code.
Design for safe machine operation and compliance to existing and emerging Safety Agency/Regulatory Standards. Design to applicable codes and standards and assist in management of 3rd party agency certification.Design for installation, serviceability, and troubleshooting including clear user interface and data logging for future analysis.
Design for user experience. Provide clear, intuitive controller interfaces for monitoring machine health, operating values and alarms. Provide seamless BAS integration points for automation and visibility. Assist the Engineering Manager with mentoring junior engineers and technicians throughout the development cycle to support their professional development.
6 years of experience at OEM equipment manufacturers
Experience and Knowledge:
Modular software architecture to allow for efficient, scalable, unique programs
OEM controls engineering experience across multiple industries, and companies, to bring vast experience to bear on the problem
Applies knowledge of control theory, HVAC applications, and component knowledge for software design, hardware selection, sequence development, and implementation.
Understand and interpret schematics with relay logic to predict equipment function, performance, and safeties.
Ability to apply control theory to tune PID loops to acceptable outcomes
Develop HVAC programming solutions in Carel and Distech hardware frameworks.
Strong PC Skills, MSOffice,
Skills & Abilities / Application of knowledge:
Collaborates amongst disparate stakeholders to maximize value for our customers, through constant alignment to our customer’s critical climate needs, active listening, and respect for all team members
Performs high level thinking: root-cause analysis, and recognition of patterns – drive to common strategic solutions; develops tools for automating tasks appropriately, to minimize confusion and waste in the production environment
Adjusts communication to audience, collects feedback, and taps into power of synergy to innovate new solutions, uses storytelling to illustrate and motivate
Author concise, user-friendly documentation of electronic/electrical systems operation and diagnostic requirements including test/validation plans
Leadership: Acts on vision with courage, firmly rooted in reality, in ethical service to others
Bonus Skillsets:
HVAC experience, with specialty knowledge and past experience in desiccant and refrigeration
Lean Six Sigma thinking regarding flow and value streams
Growth mindset of coaching others to higher levels of responsibility and authority, to ensure continuous company growth
Carel or Distech Software experience
Niagra Framework experience
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