Plc

Field Service Engineer Working as a Field Service Engineer at Quad Plus has put me right on the front lines of heavy industrial automation across the country. Traveling from our Joliet base to manufacturing facilities, steel mills, paper plants, and recycling centers throughout the U.S., I specialize in turnkey commissioning, modernization retrofits, and emergency troubleshooting of mission-critical control and drive systems. In heavy manufacturing, every hour of downtime carries massive operational costs. My role is to step into dynamic, high-stakes plant environments, quickly diagnose complex root causes—whether that is an obscure thyristor firing fault on a high-tonnage DC shredder drive, an optical signal budget drop on a PROFIBUS ring, or a ladder logic race condition in a high-speed slitting line—and engineer lasting, robust solutions. From multi-vendor drive coordination to legacy backplane migrations (bringing discontinued Allen-Bradley SLC 500 or Siemens S5 systems into modern architectures), it’s the ultimate test of hands-on electrical engineering, networking, and control software. ...

Electrical Engineer Working at H.B. Taylor Co. was where I really dove into the world of industrial automation. I spent most of my time programming Automation Direct PLC controllers - those things are fascinating because they’re basically tiny computers that control massive manufacturing machines. I’d write the logic that tells conveyor belts when to start/stop, monitors sensors, and basically automates all the repetitive stuff that used to require someone standing there pushing buttons all day. ...