Senior Automation Controls Engineer

Premier Staffing Solution • Normal, IL

10d

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Automation Controls Engineer to join our team. This role involves auditing, analyzing, and optimizing existing control logic and data pipelines within a manufacturing environment. You will be responsible for improving controller and HMI performance, ensuring data integrity, and aligning data structures with key performance indicators (KPIs) for accurate reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls/Computer Control Systems, Mechatronics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of hands-on Controls or Applications Engineering experience in a fast-paced, high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Allen Bradley PLC experience, Factory talk & ignition.
• Ability to navigate, audit, and trace data logic within Studio 5000 / Logix Designer environments.
• Proven ability to optimize HMI structures through tag tracing, program updates, custom screen development, and scripting to improve system performance.
• High proficiency with the Inductive Automation platform (Ignition), including data logging, database connectivity, and script optimization.

Responsibilities

• Audit, analyze, and review existing control logic developed across disparate programming standards.
• Clean up, correct, and optimize the codebase to improve controller and HMI performance while eliminating data noise.
• Review existing Allen-Bradley PLC logic and Ignition gateway setups to isolate specific "pain points" and faulty tag configurations causing data noise or false fault signals.
• Clean up historical and real-time data pipelines within Ignition, eliminating redundant, erroneous, or low-value data points that skew OPR and downtime tracking.
• Structure data pipelines to map directly and accurately to MTTR, MTBF, OPR, and bottleneck identification models.
• Utilize company's tracking framework to establish a regular reporting cadence for data integrity progress.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior