Our Company

Filamatic, a division of National Instrument, LLC is a 65-year-old leading manufacturer of packaging machinery for pharmaceutical, cosmetic, biotech, and chemical specialty industries located in Baltimore, Maryland. Our success is attributed to exceeding our customers’ expectations by providing products and services which offer a superior value proposition, striving to create a great working environment for our employees and driving continuous process improvement initiatives.

Core Values

The culture at Filamatic is built on our shared core values-ethical, team-oriented, continuous improvement, trust, golden rule standard (we treat others as we want to be treated ourselves), excellence- (we strive for excellence individually and expect the same from our colleagues and support our employees to improve their skills and talents), customer centric and a healthy and safe work environment. If you are interested in making an impact with a growing company and want to share ideas and help build a world class organization this is the company to join.

Position Summary

The Electrical Controls Engineer will be a part of our Electrical Engineering Team and will be instrumental in designing electrical controls for automated machinery, such as assembly machines, continuous motion machines, and robotic machinery.

Essential Functions

• Design industrial machinery electrical controls

• Involved in small to midsized programming projects to include PLC’s/PAC’s, HMI’s including screen layouts; Multi-axis servo controllers and systems, vision systems; safety controllers/systems, vision systems; safety controllers and systems and machine integration

• Other duties as assigned.

Filamatic provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

• Minimum 3 years of experience in programming and debugging industrial machinery, preferably with an OEM

• Minimum 3 years’ experience with communication protocols commonly found in industrial control systems

• Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, and Outlook)

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience with industrial filling machines and industrial packaging machines a plus but not required

• Experience working with a manufacturing company

• Experience designing electrical controls for automated machinery, such as assembly machines, continuous motion machines, and robotic machinery

• Experience with higher level program constructs and languages

• Demonstrated Programming Experience in small to mid-size projects that include:

  • PLC’s/PAC’s and similar automation system/components

  • HMI’s: including screen layouts

  • Multi-axis servo controllers and systems

  • Vision systems

  • Safety controllers and systems

  • Machine integration

• Direct Experience designing industrial machinery electrical controls

• Creative and innovative problem-solving ability

• Cross functional communication skills

Travel Requirement

• No travel is required (% travel)

Physical Requirements

• Job requires being stationary and manual work more than 75% of work time on average; standing, moving, communicating, climbing, crawling/stooping/kneeling; reaching and lifting up to 25 pounds less than 25% of the time.

Environmental Conditions

• Moderate noise

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer or promotion without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.