Controls Engineer

Oishii•Phillipsburg, NJ

4d•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 controls systems across multiple infrastructure systems, including PLCs and SCADA, and works with Facilities and Maintenance teams on preventative maintenance and standard operating procedure documentation. The engineer collaborates with cross-functional partners to support cohesive farm and facilities operations and commissions new facilities from I/O checkout through start-up. The position also involves developing SCADA screens, alarms, and Historian functionality, improving controls libraries and system resilience, and using historical data and machine-learning techniques to develop prescriptive maintenance and anomaly-detection models. This is an onsite role five days a week and includes rotating on-call troubleshooting support, which may involve 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.
Experience and knowledge of PLCs, including Allen-Bradley; HMIs/SCADA; VFDs; PID control; analog and digital field components; Ethernet and Modbus communication protocols; Python; SQL; and AutoCAD.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing, at different organizational levels.
Ability to shift priorities, collaborate cross-functionally across locations, and respond to evolving business needs in a startup environment.
Ability to solve problems, work through ambiguity, synthesize information for troubleshooting, prioritize tasks, and take ownership of results.
Ability to lead through others and develop teams with diverse experience.
Ability to handle complex employee-relations issues and sensitive information with tact, discretion, and confidentiality.
Comfort working in an ambiguous environment and implementing structure.

Nice To Haves

Experience with PanelView 5000 and Ignition is preferred.
Experience working with an organization during a period of expansion or scale is a plus.

Responsibilities

Maintain existing controls 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 changes.
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 start-up.
Support Facilities and Maintenance teams in preparing preventative-maintenance and standard-operating-procedure documentation.