Controls Software Engineer

#WeRackTheWorld

The warehouse of the future contains high-density, high-precision racking with automated pallet shuttles (like our atlas 1D) instead of wide aisles that forklifts need to pass through.

Our customers benefit from much better utilization of their warehouses (up to 70% more pallet storage than traditional rack!), maximized vertical space, improved accuracy in pallet selection, and minimized labor costs and product damage.

Over the span of more than 40 years, we’ve grown into a company with 10 manufacturing facilities, 19 commercial offices, and the know-how of around 2000 employees serving customers in 40 countries.

We Rack the World. Early 2021, we opened our first U.S. Office in Romeoville, IL and we have already grown to over 70 employees. We are also soon opening our first stow manufacturing plant in the greater Atlanta area to serve our current and future customer base. It's exciting times to be at stow!

Location:  Romeoville, IL office  (onsite) 

The CONTROLS SOFTWARE ENGINEER is an integral person in helping our customer’s vision for an automated storage solution from Movu US come to life. The core objectives are to program the PLC and HMI for our products and support product implementation and system integration onsite.

Solutions: Fully automated storage solutions including pallet shuttles (atlas) and ancillary systems such as conveyors and lifts.

Customers: End users are located throughout the United States and Canada. We work with many of the leading integrators as our Sales partners.

Typical project size: 1-30M  

As our CONTROLS SOFTWARE ENGINEER, you…

• support Sales, Engineering, Project Management, and Commissioning by sharing your expertise of the final installation and system integration
• support the creation of the functional description specifications regarding the operation of the system and the commissioning of controls
• draft documentation such as SOPs and contribute to creating manuals
• develop and design PLC programs, using standard blocks
• develop and design HMI programs, using standard templates
• test and troubleshoot mechanical and electrical systems and processes
• work closely with our integration team for WCS testing
• optimize the system by offering simulation support
• contribute to the development of test plans alongside the Commissioning Team
• be present on-site to make sure everything is operational after rack installation and initial electrical troubleshooting and to make sure everything is functional before our robots are commissioned  
• be present on-site when commissioning is in final stages to prepare the Movu system for handover to the end-customer
• perform Site Acceptance Testing  

This lets us know you’re up for the job

• Multiple years of experience with controls engineering for material handling systems and industrial automation
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Automation, Robotics, Electrical, Electro-Mechanical, or Mechatronics Engineering
• PLC and HMI Programming experience (Siemens preferred, but strong experience with Allen Bradley is just fine)
• Experience reading/writing code in SCL or other structured text-based languages 
• Always looking for ways to improve processes, hardware components, and codebase
• Willing and able to travel to customer sites and if remote, to our office an average of up to 30%, usually no longer than 2 weeks at a time; throughout the United States and occasionally to Canada 
• If remote, occasional travel to our Romeoville, IL office (average 3 days at a time; approx. 4-6 times per year besides onboarding & training)
• For onboarding and training, if remote, travel to our Romeoville, IL office and regardless of your location, to our headquarters in Belgium (usually no more than 2 weeks at a time)
• We work closely with our European colleagues. The morning hours are the most important so we can connect with them while our business hours overlap across time zones. If you love starting your workday mid-morning or later, you would hate it here. Most people start their workday at 8 am CST and some love to start even earlier so they can wrap up earlier at the end of the day.

What do we offer you?

1. PTO, sick leave, & paid holidays
2. Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
3. Company paid Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
4. Company Paid Life Insurance
5. Company Paid Accidental Death & Dismemberment
6. 401K with employer match, currently 4%
7. Partial Tuition Reimbursement after 12 months
8. Gross Salary

Salary Range: $95k to $120k

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