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First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset.

Basic Job Functions:

• Mid-level corporate controls engineering position.
• Requires taking a lead role in the global implementation and development of electrical controls systems/designs, PLC/HMI programing, performing equipment check-out (PDD) at Vendor site, Commissioning equipment and systems including FAT, and integration of systems into FSLR infrastructure (networking, data collection and reporting)

Education/Experience:

• Associates degree in engineering technology or a related field of study with equivalent years of work experience required.
• Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or a related field of study preferred.
• Minimum 6 years of manufacturing equipment controls engineering experience.
• Experience in an industrial, high volume manufacturing facility is desirable.

Required Skills/Competencies:

• Proven understanding/knowledge and experience in controls engineering techniques and practices which would be required for global facilities including North America, Asia, and Europe.
• Proven understanding/knowledge and ability to trouble-shoot electrical/electronic control systems.
• Proven understanding/knowledge of global manufacturing processes and safety requirements.
• Proven experience using Auto Desk AutoCad drafting software to create electrical schematic and panel layouts.
• Good understanding/knowledge programming of Rockwell Automation Logix platform PLCs, including ladder, structured text, and function block diagram.
• Good understanding/knowledge programming Rockwell Automation Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) including PanelView Plus, PanelView Plus CE, and Factory Talk View ME and SE.
• Good understanding/knowledge designing, programming, and commissioning at least two control networks including EtherNet I/P, DeviceNet, ProfiNet, ControlNet, Profibus and Ethernet TCP.
• Proven understanding/knowledge of robotic systems including programming, safety requirements, and optimization practices.
• Good understanding/knowledge of motion controls including Servo Controllers, Variable Frequency Drives, and Stepper controllers.
• Good understanding/knowledge of vision inspection configuration and programming experience (Cognex and Keyence).
• Proven understanding of computer hardware, controls applications and the Microsoft Office family.
• Knowledge of working in server environment.
• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server Database navigation, data inquiry, and configuration experience.
• Experience in at least one multi-tiered architecture using C#, VB.NET, HTML, XML and SQL.

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Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for global support of manufacturing facilities.
• Responsible for assisting with global coordination of new equipment installation and implementation.
• Responsible for assisting with global communication between manufacturing process equipment and SQL database.
• Responsible for maintaining and updating manufacturing process tool electrical drawings globally, ensuring the tracking of equipment changes is documented and drawings are kept current.
• Responsible for the successful design and theory behind the majority of manufacturing control systems, ensuring new process tools adhere to corporate controls standards and best practices.
• Responsible for global troubleshooting and problem-solving equipment controls related issues and recommending controls policy/standard changes, if possible, to prevent future issues with new manufacturing process tools.
• Responsible for interfacing with multiple departments within the organization and external suppliers to ensure corporate controls policies/standards are understood and enforcing compliance.
• Evaluates new proposed equipment controls systems to MES requirements and provides recommendations to vendor and/or internally.
• Maintain an effective global communication cadence, foster team building and promote collaboration.
• Ensures adherence to all safety procedures and good housekeeping standards.
• Responsible for designing, programming, and coordination of small, mid, and some large-scale control systems and projects.
• Job description subject to change at anytime.
• Other duties as assigned.

Key Competencies:

Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates, and recommends options, implementing if required. Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements. Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately implemented.

Maintains knowledge of specific technical specialisms, provides detailed advice regarding their application and executes specialized tasks. The specialism can be any area of information or communication technology, technique, method, product, or application area.

Agrees to research goals and generates original and worthwhile ideas in a specialized IT field. Develops, reviews, and constructively criticizes ideas, possibly leading a small research team, making necessary observations and tests and carrying them through to a full practical demonstration, wherever viable and feasible. Where necessary, designs data collection tools and techniques for both qualitative and quantitative data. Presents papers at conferences, writes papers of publication quality, and presents reports to clients.

Actively monitors and seeks opportunities utilizing new methods and trends in control system capabilities and products for the advancement of the organization. Clearly articulates, and formally reports their benefits.

Maintains awareness of opportunities provided by new technology to address challenges or to enable new ways of working. Within own sphere of influence, works to further organizational goals, by the use of emerging technologies and products. Contributes to briefings and presentations about their relevance and potential value to the organization.

Recommends/designs structures and tools for systems which meet business needs. Delivers technical visualization of proposed applications for approval by customer and execution by system developers.

Translates logical designs into physical designs and produces detailed design documentation. Maps work to user specification and removes errors and deviations from specification to achieve user-friendly processes.

Designs, codes, tests, corrects, and documents moderately complex programs and program modifications from supplied specifications, using agreed standards and tools. Conducts reviews of supplied specifications, with others as appropriate.

Contributes to the identification, analysis, and documentation of hazards, and to the capture, evaluation and specification of safety requirements. Analyses and documents safety validation results. Contributes to the development and maintenance of project safety assurance plans and gathers safety assurance evidence for safety case preparation.

Designs systems, services and components that meet required levels of sustainability and