Facilities Controls Engineer (North Texas)

Texas Instruments•Richardson, TX

15h

About The Position

Texas Instruments is seeking an experienced Controls Engineer to join its Facilities Central Engineering team in North Texas. The role maintains, troubleshoots, and improves controls systems supporting 365x24x7 manufacturing operations. The engineer leads the lifecycle of controls for critical facility systems—including air handling, exhaust, water treatment, drain systems, electrical power monitoring, and life safety and hazardous-gas monitoring—and drives capital and expense projects focused on reliability, technology innovation, cost savings, and obsolescence management. The team works with manufacturing to understand utility-system impacts on processes and reduce consumption. The position serves as an engineering escalation point for 24/7 operations, provides controls expertise, leads controls projects from initiation through commissioning, develops technical documentation, supports the development of early-career engineers and technicians, and improves operational and maintenance procedures. Texas Instruments will not sponsor applicants for visas or work authorization for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related degree.
At least 5 years of relevant controls engineering experience in an industrial or facilities environment.
Hands-on experience programming and troubleshooting Siemens PLCs.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting or troubleshooting controls systems and infrastructure.
Ability to prioritize and resolve new and complex problems under broad direction.
Advanced experience with SCADA systems in an operational or configuration capacity.
Proficiency with Siemens TIA Portal (S7-1200/1500) and/or Classic Step 7 (S7-300/400); Siemens PLC experience is identified as the most critical technical differentiator.
Experience with Wago PLC platforms (CoDeSys) and Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation PLCs.
Familiarity with SCADA and historian platforms such as Aveva System Platform, Iconics, Siemens PCS7, Zenon CopaData, or SQL.
Experience with industrial network design, configuration, and troubleshooting; Cisco and/or Hirschmann equipment preferred.
Knowledge of controls applications for facility process systems, including air handling, exhaust, water treatment, life safety, and power monitoring.
Understanding of PID loop tuning, Function Block Diagram and structured text programming, and alarm and trend analysis.
Ability to read and interpret low-voltage wiring diagrams and P&IDs.
Experience starting up and commissioning new controls systems.
Experience with FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) processes.
Familiarity with Root Cause Analysis methodologies such as 3x5 Why, 4-Corner Analysis, or Cause Map.
Demonstrated ability to manage projects and coordinate contractor work in the field.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to document and communicate design intent and sequences of operations to cross-functional stakeholders.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, interrupt-driven environment with high system uptime requirements.
Experience in a semiconductor fab or data center environment.
Familiarity with LLM platforms such as Anthropic Claude and the ability to assess their potential benefits, limitations, and safety or operational risks in industrial control and automation.
Proficiency with virtualization, Windows Server, and PC hardware.

Responsibilities

Serve as the engineering escalation point for the 24/7 operations team, troubleshooting controllers, instrumentation, and controls-system issues across critical manufacturing facility systems.
Provide engineering expertise for controls systems and infrastructure, including air handling, exhaust, de-ionized water, cooling, hot and potable water, drain systems, electrical power monitoring, and life safety systems.
Independently drive controls-scope projects from initiation through completion, including design, engineering, and commissioning.
Provide technical leadership on large-scale, multidisciplinary projects.
Develop and maintain controls documentation, including Sequences of Operations, P&IDs, I/O lists, and panel and wiring drawings.
Support the mentoring, training, and development of early-career controls engineers and technicians.
Develop and review operational and maintenance procedures to document, standardize, and implement best practices.