Controls Engineer

Milk Specialties Company - Jerome, ID

Full-time

Jerome, ID

Food Manufacturing

About the position

The Controls Engineer at Milk Specialties Global is responsible for supporting and advancing the plant's control systems. This role involves troubleshooting manufacturing issues, optimizing system performance, and driving data collection and analysis. The engineer will collaborate closely with engineering and operations teams to provide specifications for plant expansion projects, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of control systems.

Responsibilities

• Perform duties related to preventative, routine, and emergency maintenance of the control/networking systems.
• Advise on, recommend, and engage in the selection of plant equipment and related controls needs with appropriate attention given to digital and analog I/O, cabinet, and system design requirements.
• Provide oversight of external controls vendors, including ensuring work requirements are clearly defined and appropriately delivered.
• Design, code, test, and debug moderate to complex programs, and modify existing programming to keep plant processes running effectively.
• Provide HMI development using easy to understand graphics and process diagrams for plant operators, automating steps where possible, and using necessary messaging and alerting to keep plants informed and running optimally.
• Drive standards to ensure reliability of control systems including developing a maintenance replacement plan for aging or problematic PLCs and related equipment.
• Adhere to standard operating procedures for development, documentation, and code backup.
• Ensure controls cabinets are properly managed, maintained, and documented.
• Oversee the controls network communications requirements working closely with IT network engineers to minimize network performance or security related problems or risks.
• Work closely with IT to promote practices that address appropriate security risks.
• Ensure necessary controls systems spare parts are maintained to reduce extended downtime risk.
• Maintain the proper licensing and support of controls software and hardware.
• Communicate routinely with plant management to keep them appraised of all controls system related activities.

Requirements

• Experience in control systems engineering and maintenance.
• Proficiency in programming languages relevant to control systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills in manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of HMI development and design principles.
• Familiarity with PLCs and related equipment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with plant expansion projects.
• Knowledge of IT network communications and security practices.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) company match program