Hardware Engineering Lead

Company: Orion Talent
Location: Buffalo Grove
Posted on: February 18, 2025

Job Description:

Position Details:

Title: Hardware Engineering Lead
Location: Buffalo Grove, IL
Travel/Schedule: Standard day-shift hours (Monday - Fri). Less than 10% travel.
Compensation: Target Base Salary -$100K - $115K
Benefits: Company offers an industry-standard corporate benefits package to include Medical / Dental / Vision, company matched RRSP/DPSP, a generous paid time off (PTO) program, Life Insurance, Flexible Work Schedule, a profit sharing-program and opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Position Description: Company provides top of the line, full and partial automation solutions for both direct mail and retail pharmacies. The OptiFill and RIVA service groups provide support and expertise to the customers on company equipment and product lines. This is a leadership role focused on continued improvement of the company's product lines utilizing principles of Lean Six Sigma and OEE concepts of availability, performance and quality. As the Hardware Engineering Lead you will be responsible for defining and improving the software testing and release processes, and ensuring all new and upgraded products are following the software development process and standards; you will create and oversee group policies, procedures, training, and scheduling; and you will also be responsible for defining and improving the hardware design process, managing the hardware engineering associates, and ensuring all new or upgraded products are developed on time and follow the hardware design process and standards. Some specific responsibilities include:



PLC Programming for new and existing customer projects. Provide support from electrical and controls perspective, as needed.
Play a leadership role in driving the company towards products availability, performance, and quality goals. Implement continuous improvement process and standards to achieve the goals.
Assign project resources; facilitate the creation of detailed testing plans and prioritization of work.
Responsible for performance reviews for the team; contributes to a high-performing team by coaching and developing team members.
Analyze production issues, define and create tools that help mitigate problems in the system design and integration. Identify changes that are necessary to maintain optimal system performance
Develop solutions to monitor software health, perform log analysis, and automate system recovery.
Perform vulnerability and risk management for designated systems.
Develop, implement, and maintain tools that are used by internal engineering and customer service teams as they build, enhance, and support current and new products.
Prepare system design concepts, create detailed designs, perform analysis, test prototypes, and document completed designs.
Perform system level design and analysis on products. This includes concept design and trade studies, including cost and performance, of electrical, mechanical and software as interrelated systems.
Provide support to Project Managers including mentoring, escalation, training, performance management. Define the roles and key steps to ensure consistent content and flow of information to better manage and prioritize projects as needs are always changing.
Influence cross-functional stake holders, and hold project managers and task owners accountable for delivering on time, on budget and with high quality. Escalate issues quickly and find ways to resolve them.
Establish documentation standards across all product lines. Ensure complete standard documentation delivery with each project completion.
Collaborate with members of interdisciplinary teams to implement and release high quality, reliable, ergonomic designs to production, which may include participating:
in the design, requirements specification, coding, verification or test of software in accordance with internal standards and procedures.
in the electrical design, analysis, bread-boarding and/or test in accordance with internal standards and procedures.
in the mechanical design and analysis in accordance with internal standards and procedures.
Lead the team of professionals that includes Mechanical, Electrical, Controls Engineers, and Consulting Resources
Provide fiscal leadership and continuous quality improvement principles and processes to improve quality and minimize operational expenses.
In order to be successful in this role, you should have at least 3 years' of hands-on engineering experience related to Electronic / Electrical and computerized electro-mechanical systems such as robotics, conveyors, sensors and PLCs (specifically RS Logic, Allen Bradley, Beckhoff and Structured Text). You should have experience leading/supervising a small team of engineers / technicians, and display some level of expertise with computers (software, remote diagnostics, windows-based networking etc). Project Management knowledge is a plus, as is familiarity with LEAN Six Sigma and other process optimization tools, as they apply to manufacturing and engineering.

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