Job Category: Lead Controls Engineer

Ready for your next step? If you’ve got 6-9 yrs of Controls Experience, especially in the Food & Beverage, Ingredients, Nuts, Dairy, Mining or Manufacturing industries we’d like to talk to you about our new leadership opportunity overseeing our Controls team in the Southern CA area.

What you will be doing:

• Work with customers to determine needs, keeping them informed as projects progress
• You must be able to quickly understand manufacturing processes, which may include process control, batching, machine control, motion control, and safety systems
• Control panel design using: PLC hardware, pneumatics, motor starters, VFDs, and servo drives
• Develop and conduct process control training for operations and maintenance staff
• Instrumentation specification and configuration
• PLC programming (Rockwell, Siemens, Modicon)
• HMI/SCADA programming (Wonderware, Rockwell, Ignition, iFIX)
• Develop test plans and test control system components, such as: control panels, PLC programs, HMI programs, Instrumentation, and Drives
• On-site troubleshooting of control systems
• On-site I/O Checking and System Startup
• Wire and configure devices on the following networks: Ethernet, DeviceNet, ControlNet, AS-i, Modbus, Modbus Plus, and Profibus
• Read P&IDs and electrical schematics
• Use Hart protocol and process multimeter for testing and calibration of instrumentation
• Test/Configure/Calibrate Flow, Pressure, Temperature, Conductivity, Turbidity, and Level instruments
• Commission and troubleshoot Variable Frequency Drives
• Be able to travel to customer sites
• Lead team of controls engineers

What your current skill set looks like:

• 5yr. technical degree or certificate of completion from an accredited course (or equivalent) is preferred.
• Good communication skills, which includes verbal skills, interpersonal skills, and technical writing
• Experience with Vision and Barcoding systems
• Familiar with many types of valves: electric, pneumatic, modulating, blocking, diverting and mixproof
• Work well as a team member
• Customer care oriented
• Good computer skills and easily able to learn new technologies
• Good at problem solving and troubleshooting
• Good programming aptitude
• Proficient with MS Office
• Beginners knowledge in AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT preferred.
• Experience working at food and beverage processing and minerals and mining industries, preferred
• Project Management experience

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Experience:

• Controls Engineering: 5 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver’s License (Required)

Work Location: Multiple Locations