Controls Engineer LabView/Beckhoff

Job description

**By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics.

Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.**

Pay Range:

$73,100.00 - $120,200.00

The Simple Plex & Simple Western platforms are respectively an automated microfluidics-based ELISA immunoassay solution & an automated capillary-based Western Blot solution within Bio-Techne (NASDAQ: TECH).

We are rethinking protein tools and helping thousands of researchers around the world resolve their protein analysis problems so they can reveal new insight into proteins and their role in disease.

**Position Summary:** As a Controls Engineer, you will be a vital member of a dynamic team, including engineers, scientists, and technicians, dedicated to advancing cartridge production through tooling, fixturing, and automation.

Your role will focus on maintaining, improving, and developing systems to support testing and automation efforts aimed at enhancing production capacity.

You will engage with a variety of technologies, including PLC, and PC-based systems, incorporating analog and digital I/O, multi-axis motion control, machine vision, and digital communication protocols.

Utilizing LabVIEW, Beckhoff and a mix of third-party hardware / software, you'll contribute to our automation control systems.

The control systems interface with our LIMS systems for process management and quality control.

The drive towards increased automation, including part handling and conveyance, is a critical component of our strategy to meet growing production demands.

**Key Responsibilities:**

+ Collaborate with the team to design, develop, integrate, and deploy innovative production systems that enhance automation and efficiency.
+ Continuously update and refine existing equipment to ensure optimal performance and integration with new technologies.
+ Play a key role in the validation of new equipment, ensuring they meet production and quality standards.
+ Develop and maintain LabVIEW, Beckhoff and PLC based applications and programs to control and automate production processes.
+ Design electrical schematics and prepare comprehensive documentation for both new and existing machinery.
+ Provide expert troubleshooting and problem-solving support for manufacturing operations.
+ Implement equipment and process improvements to support manufacturing efficiency and reliability.

**Education and Experience:**

+ Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or a closely related field.
+ Over 4 years of experience in designing and implementing PC-based test systems and production machinery.
+ Proficient in **LabVIEW** programming and familiar with National Instruments hardware suite.
+ Proficient in **Beckhoff** programming and familiar with Beckhoff hardware suite.
+ Experience with PLC programming and applications is highly desirable.
+ Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, with a proactive approach to problem-solving and improvement.
+ Experience in ISO-9001 or ISO-13485 regulated environments will be considered an asset.

**Desired Skills:**

+ Ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment, interfacing with various departments and skill sets.
+ A proactive problem-solver who actively seeks out challenges and efficiently resolves them.
+ Excellent communicator capable of articulating technical issues and solutions to a diverse team.
+ A continuous learner, open to feedback and committed to personal and professional growth.
+ A proactive approach to volunteering and seeking feedback, aimed at continuous improvement and innovative development.

**Physical Demands:**

+ This role requires working in normal production environments, including Bio-Labs and Clean Rooms.

**Why Join Bio-Techne:**

**We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.**

**We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k plans, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.**

**We empower our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, internship programs, and more.**

**We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.**

**We offer an accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.**

**We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.**

**Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.**

**All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.**

**To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application.

Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.**

Bio-Techne empowers researchers in Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics by providing high-quality reagents, instruments, custom manufacturing, and testing services.

Our family of brands creates a unique portfolio of products and services.
Science is our passion; it drives us to collaborate, develop, and manufacture award-winning tools that help researchers achieve reproducible and consistent results.

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