Controls Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 2+ years of PLC programming experience
• 3+ years of industrial controls and automation experience
• 2+ years of PLC/SCADA integration experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, automation engineering, or equivalent, or 5+ years of professional or military experience
• Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays
• Travel up to 80% of the time

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree, or Six Sigma Black Belt certification
• Experience with creating automated alarms, reports and KPI metrics for plant management
• Experience using relational databases (SQL experience)
• Experience leading controls in manufacturing or complex industrial environments
• Experience identifying, maintaining, troubleshooting, and modifying Motor Controls including motor starters, Variable Frequency Drives, DC drives, and standard electrical components
• Experience interpreting and modifying mechanical and electrical drawings

Responsibilities

• Dive deep and works to help solve critical design issues involving algorithm, develop hardware/firmware interfaces, IoT interfaces, etc
• Participate in design reviews for complex control systems, simulations, algorithms and software development owned by your team, partner teams and vendors.
• Influences within your team and partner teams to help drive and develop the technical implementation for overall system designs.
• Identify and implement process improvements which improve your team’s agility. This may include improvements to design, automation, development, test or operations.
• Simultaneously manage multiple high-visibility projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors.
• Review new, advanced technology being introduced for MHE systems with a focus on machine software including electrical and controls interfacing requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and decision making for collaboration projects or initiatives with other Amazon teams, being a key stakeholder in supporting technical and major network support requests.
• Understand control systems for material handling, including Allen Bradley PLCs, IPCs , barcode scanners and industrial networks such as Ethernet, safety over ethernet IP.
• Apply Subject Matter Expertise (SME) on troubleshooting and dive deeps for engineering issues, supporting local teams to investigate the root cause and planning actions to eliminate/mitigate the downtime of critical assets.
• Troubleshoot and resolve PLC, HMI, SCADA, and industrial network issues across delivery station material handling equipment (MHE), driving root cause analysis and corrective actions to minimize asset downtime
• Program and maintain Allen Bradley PLC/HMI applications, supporting continuous improvement of control system logic, alarm management, and visualization interfaces
• Execute controls integration for new equipment installations and retrofits, including PLC/SCADA commissioning, I/O checkout, sensor calibration, and network validation
• Develop and maintain electrical and controls documentation including wiring diagrams, P&IDs, network architecture drawings, and standard operating procedures
• Collaborate cross-functionally with field engineering, operations, and vendor teams to deliver scalable automation solutions that improve delivery station throughput and reliability
• Support design reviews for control systems, simulations, and software development, providing technical input on electrical/controls interfacing requirements
• Create and maintain automated alarms, reports, and KPI dashboards to enable data-driven decision-making for site and regional leadership
• Identify and implement process improvements across design, automation, testing, and operations that increase team agility and system performance
• Ensure compliance with functional safety standards (IEC 62061, IEC 13849, IEC 61508) and Amazon electrical/controls specifications

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)