Controls Engineer II
Listed on 2026-07-25
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Automation & Mechatronics Engineer
About Us
BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. As the only firm born from a manufacturing technology company to become an independent and fully integrated firm, we combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients.
Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology. Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries.
By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.
Who You’ll Work With You will join one of our 45 offices in the US, be part of a committed team of over 1500 professionals, and work in teams and directly with our clients doing work that is shaping the world around us.
You will be welcomed into a rapidly growing business and team and empowered to make an impact. You will be valued, cared for, and challenged on your path to becoming a world-class professional consultant and surrounded by leaders who are committed to creating an environment that enables you to realize your own success and fulfillment.
When you join Design Group as a Controls Engineer, you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth. In this role, you will work with a team of industry experts to help the world’s leading companies solve their most difficult problems. You will work with our Control Systems Integration group and partner with seasoned leaders, technical specialists, and subject matter experts to develop the highest quality solutions to our clients with consistency and accuracy.
What You’ll Do- This person will be responsible for providing support within the 24x7 center operations.
- The primary focus is to provide HMI and PLC technical support for customers on systems covered by an active 24x7 support contract.
- Troubleshoot existing systems to address issues and ensure operational performance of the supported equipment.
- Understand, troubleshoot and potentially modify PLC ladder logic for existing automated systems using PLC Controllers and industrial networks such as Ethernet, Control Net, Device Net and Profibus.
- Troubleshoot and support variable frequency drives.
- Act as escalation support for the controls engineering team; appropriately escalated downtime situations to leadership for support to restore equipment operation.
- Perform and utilize 24x7 center system assessments to identify opportunities in improving utilization of systems/equipment.
- Provide detailed information regarding support calls such as: troubleshooting steps, root cause analysis and ultimate resolution.
- Communicate technical issues and project timeline with building leadership, operations and the maintenance team.
- Perform periodic on-site assessments of automation equipment and 24x7 support systems.
- This position will require the need for domestic travel to customer sites (< 25% travel).
- Must have demonstrated experience using RSLogix 5000 to troubleshoot, program and modify PLC code. Lack of RSLogix
5000 will disqualify the candidate for this role. - Industrial electrical hands-on experience and troubleshooting of 24
VDC up to 480V 3phase systems. - Systems Controls knowledge and programming experience using RSlogix
5000 Field Service Engineering Experience - Experience with advance automation control systems
- Ability to maintain, troubleshoot and modify the following: PLC failures, device failures, Control Network components, HMI components, Motor Controls and starters, VFD’s…
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