Controls Engineer

Aston Carter•Woodland, CA

9d•$43 - $46•Hybrid

About The Position

We are hiring a Junior Controls Engineer to join our small, hands-on controls and automation team. In this role you will work side-by-side with our Sr. Controls Engineer on both small and large automation projects across all three plants, as well as day-to-day maintenance work — troubleshooting production issues and making continuous improvements to our control systems. This is a growth-oriented role designed for an engineer with 2–5 years of experience who is ready to deepen their skills in a manufacturing environment.

Requirements

Associate’s or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation, Mechatronics, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on experience
2–5 years of hands-on experience in industrial automation and controls
Rockwell platform: highly desired experience with Studio 5000, RSLogix 500, FactoryTalk View ME (HMI), and PlantPAx process library v4 or above
Ignition SCADA Vision/Perspective
SQL Server, SSMS, T-SQL, and Jython scripting
Ability to read electrical drawings for industrial control panels
Familiarity with industrial networks (Ethernet/IP, Modbus TCP/RTU, IO-Link)
Familiarity with process instrumentation: ability to configure and calibrate field instrumentation
controls engineering
scada
plc programming
automation
allen-bradley
programming
electrical
troubleshooting
siemens plc
schematic
rockwell

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience deploying at least one Ignition gateway from scratch into a production environment — installation, device/OPC connections, tag database, database/historian connection, alarming, and screen development.
Experience: food & beverage, grain handling, agricultural processing environments, or system integrator
Software: Siemens TIA Portal, AutoCAD LT or Electrical for control-panel drawings, IFM moneo or other IO-Link software

Responsibilities

Support Sr. controls engineer with design, build, and commissioning of control panels onsite.
Support maintenance and operations teams in diagnosing and implementing solutions to production issues.
Develop and maintain Ignition Vision/Perspective screens, popups, templates, reports, transaction groups, etc.
Troubleshoot production Ignition errors and faults.
Configure and maintain Ignition alarming: setup, history, and event-driven email notifications.
Manage Ignition user security roles and permissions, controlling operator access to pushbuttons and setpoints.
Bring new equipment and instrumentation into SCADA.
Support historian/reporting work, including SCADA production reporting and SQL-backed data logging.
Support SCADA standards work: tag data-model cleanup, naming conventions, templates, and unified namespace (UNS) development.
Diagnose and resolve equipment faults with instrumentation, control devices, and PLC/SCADA operation.
Make wiring modifications to existing panels or work with electricians to make necessary changes both in production and during downtime.
Apply structured root-cause analysis methods: divide-and-conquer, component isolation, backward/forward chaining, PLC and SCADA data logging, and signal/continuity tracing with electrical tools.
Read electrical drawings and search PLC logic and SCADA to diagnose issues in electrical panels/MCCs and in the field.
Collaborate with operations, quality, and engineering teams in identifying and implementing solutions to production issues and control gaps.
Identify required electrical and programming changes.
Coordinate hardware procurement and installation.
Schedule programming changes with operations.
Analyze production data and implement control improvements to enhance plant yield, efficiency, quality and equipment uptime.
Tune PID loops, sequence controllers, and equipment interlock operation in a production environment.
Integrate new control and instrumentation hardware such as valves, motor actuators, VFDs, flowmeters, level, temperature, and pressure transmitters.
Configure and calibrate various devices including scales, flowmeters, level, and pressure transmitters, etc.
Support OT asset lifecycle work, helping migrate various obsolete control systems to newer Rockwell platforms.
Write and maintain SOP documentation.
Train maintenance and operations staff.