Controls Engineer

Oishii•Clay Township, OH

5d•$75,000 - $90,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Controls Engineer will support the design, commissioning, ramp-up, and operation of Oishii’s indoor vertical smart farms. The role maintains and improves control systems across farm infrastructure, including PLCs, SCADA, and related processes. It also supports Facilities and Maintenance teams with preventive maintenance and standard operating procedure documentation. The engineer will maintain and update existing controls, improve system resilience through hardware and software changes, build reusable control libraries, and develop SCADA screens, alarms, and Historian capabilities. The role also includes using historical data and machine-learning techniques to develop prescriptive maintenance and anomaly-detection models, collaborating with farming and facilities partners, and commissioning new facilities from I/O checkout through startup. This is a five-day-per-week onsite position with rotating on-call support that may include nights and weekends.

Requirements

Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
At least 3 years of related professional Controls Engineering experience.
Experience in a farming, manufacturing, warehousing, production, or similar environment.
Knowledge of multiple systems and areas, including PLCs (Allen Bradley), HMIs/SCADA, VFDs, PID control, analog and digital field components, Ethernet and Modbus communication protocols, Python, SQL, and AutoCAD.
Ability to shift priorities, meet deadlines, and communicate clearly and effectively, verbally and in writing, at different levels of the organization.
Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across organizational levels and locations, with an understanding of evolving business needs in a startup environment.
Ability to lead through others and develop teams with varied experience.
Ability to prioritize, solve problems, work through ambiguity, and use sound judgment when processes or policies are absent.
Ability to synthesize information quickly to support troubleshooting.
Entrepreneurial mindset, tenacity, and ability to develop and rapidly implement ideas, processes, and policies.
Ability to prioritize tasks in consideration of available resources and take ownership of results.
Track record of handling complex employee-relations matters and sensitive information with tact, discretion, and confidentiality.
Comfort with ambiguity and demonstrated ability to provide and implement structure.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Panelview 5000 and Ignition.
Experience working with an organization during a period of expansion or scaling.

Responsibilities

Maintain existing control systems, including checking programming settings and repairing or troubleshooting sensors.
Update controls systems to meet farm-team needs, including adding components, changing HMI screens, and editing PLC programs.
Improve system resilience through hardware and software improvements.
Design and improve libraries for new and existing installations using AOIs.
Create and update SCADA screens, alarms, and Historian.
Develop prescriptive-maintenance and anomaly-detection models using machine-learning techniques on historical data.
Work with cross-functional Facilities partners to support cohesive operations across farming and facilities.
Commission new facilities from I/O checkout through startup.
Support Facilities and Maintenance teams in preparing preventive-maintenance and standard-operating-procedure documentation.
Provide rotating on-call support and troubleshooting, which may include nights and weekends.