Senior Controls Engineer

Actus Nutrition • Norfolk, NE

10d • Onsite

About The Position

Actus Nutrition (Milk Specialties Company) has an opening based out of its facilities in Norfolk, Nebraska for the position of Senior Controls Engineer. Advise on, recommend, and engage in the selection of plant equipment and related control needs for digital and analog I/O, cabinet and system design requirements. Oversee external control vendors. Lead design, coding, testing, and debugging of programs and modify existing programming to keep plant processes running effectively. Drive standards to ensure reliability of control systems. Oversee the control network communications to minimize network performance problems or security related risks. Provide support to address critical plant control system issues. Oversee project production efforts to assure projects are completed on time and within budget. Inspect completed installations and observe operations to ensure conformance to design and equipment specifications. Collect data in relation to control system to determine operating efficiencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (or foreign equivalent degree) in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related specialty technical field.
• Five years of progressive, post-bachelor’s experience in controls engineering in a processing plant.
• Experience with Allen Bradley PLCs, related components, and Logix programming.
• Experience with various HMI developments (Factory Talk ME, Factory Talk View and/or Aveva InTouch) and all related systems (tag/data servers and historians).
• Experience with Rockwell and related US automation technologies.
• Experience with control system design and troubleshooting methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Advise on, recommend, and engage in the selection of plant equipment and related control needs for digital and analog I/O, cabinet and system design requirements.
• Oversee external control vendors.
• Lead design, coding, testing, and debugging of programs and modify existing programming to keep plant processes running effectively.
• Drive standards to ensure reliability of control systems.
• Oversee the control network communications to minimize network performance problems or security related risks.
• Provide support to address critical plant control system issues.
• Oversee project production efforts to assure projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Inspect completed installations and observe operations to ensure conformance to design and equipment specifications.
• Collect data in relation to control system to determine operating efficiencies.

What This Job Offers

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