Senior Controls Specialist

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We are Wayfair; we deliver a best-in-class customer experience in the furniture and home space because of people like you, who are driven, determined, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. In order to maintain our high level of delivery standards and meet our customer’s needs, the Wayfair Distribution team plays a key role in improving customer satisfaction and driving repeat business. We’ve been busy building a best-in-class logistics network that allows us to delight customers by speeding up deliveries, adding services, and reducing damage using our own physical, asset-based warehouses. We are looking for talented hard-working individuals to join our growing team – your professional home awaits you at Wayfair!

What You’ll Do:

  • Train and mentor team members and Maintenance Techs in PLC logic
  • Write PLC programs in the desired platform
  • Setup WMS/WCS PLC Software interface standard
  • Experience of AMR integration
  • Experience of AGV integration
  • Ability to work operational management
  • Set electrical Installation standards
  • Ethernet network standards and design
  • Power studies on current sites to use on future design needs
  • CEMA Standards familiarity
  • Use BS 5424 design guidelines
  • ISO Machine Safety
  • Create AOI PLC standards
  • Create a SCADA platform using Ignition 8.X
  • Create diagrams for a machine or process
  • Create/edit drive programs in platform required
  • Use and manipulate file types used to manage a design package. (e.g., JT, PDF, DXF, DWG)
  • Flexibility to support multiple machine start-ups and changing demands across the network
  • Introduce Engineering/Equipment Change Request (ECR) and Engineering Change Authorization (ECA) processes to the enterprise
  • Writes engineering instructions (EI) and PSI checklist
  • Effectively executes appropriate turnover procedures
  • Provides commissioning support for machine and system installations and start up support
  • Performs Vendor Acceptance Test (VAT)
  • Capable of generating and implementing safety validation plans
  • Implement SW improvements, including new SCADA systems
  • Ability and willingness to travel 

What You’ll Need:

  • Experience in Material Handling Automation equipment, preferably Sortations, AGVs, AMR’s, Pallet Conveyor, and/or AS/RS
  • Demonstrated experience with PLC and HMI applications
  • Experience programming Allen-Bradley and/or Siemens control panels
  • Knowledge of power of control hardware and mechanical design
  • Ethernet network knowledge and troubleshooting
  • Has managed a Team of CE’s for at least 2 years
  • Proficient with SQL or other relational database query language
  • Ability to read and understand technical and software documentation, set up and troubleshoot various communications networks
  • Capability to troubleshoot hardware systems, components, devices, etc.
  • Experience in the material handling/equipment controls industry preferred
  • Understand VFDs and programming
  • Understands safety requirements of machine design and functionality and ensures issues/questions are raised accordingly
  • Detail oriented, with strong analytical and organizational skills, who is also highly results oriented and proactive
  • Strong technical background with Warehouse Management Systems and Control Systems are required to be successful in this role.
  • Effectively communicating with business partners and senior management both local and remote
  • Ability to identify critical paths and execute (these may change weekly) in a dynamic, fast-paced organization
  • Must be capable of learning other software packages

 

About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.