Controls Engineer

Controls Engineer Opportunity

Wunderlich-Malec Engineering (WM) is a 100% employee-owned ESOP and one of the largest and most well-established engineering companies in the United States. When you join WM you become part of a company that is:

• 100% employee-owned with 40+ years of industry history
• ENR (Engineering News Record) Top 500 firm
• Rated as a top System Integrator Giant

We have a Controls Engineer opportunity available in our Albuquerque, NM office.

As a Staff Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing advanced automation solutions for the water/wastewater, data center, and manufacturing industry sectors. Working within a dynamic system integration environment, you will be part of a team responsible for delivering high-quality, fit-for-purpose, regulatory-compliant automation that supports the business drivers of our client base. This is an opportunity to contribute to projects that impact the local community while growing within an employee-owned organization that values innovation and technical excellence.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities The following responsibilities are essential to the satisfactory performance of this role. Reasonable accommodation may be made as needed.

• Works on multiple projects of moderate size or portions of major project
• Collaborate on standards, techniques, procedures, and criteria
• Develops or designs with guidance
• Consistently follows best practices
• Leads design reviews
• Has attained a level of expertise in one or more technical areas
• Designs a complete project, system, component, or process
• Prepares complete project documents
• Identifies potential roadblocks to completing tasks efficiently
• Routinely tests own work or work of associate engineers in area of technical expertise
• Develop, configure, and implement PLC-based (Rockwell experience preferred) control systems, ensuring alignment with customer specifications, Wunderlich-Malec (WM) standards, and industry best practices
• Collaborate with clients to gather requirements and develop customized automation solutions
• Engineer system architecture, hardware specifications, and control strategies to optimize manufacturing efficiency
• Procure/configure controllers, applications, HMI, and historian solutions while ensuring compliance with regulations
• Conduct Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) to validate system performance
• Develop instrument specifications, wiring designs, troubleshooting, and calibration. Procure and manage installation of devices
• Develops and/or redlines control drawings and electrical schematics detailing control system configuration, major hardware and wiring, and design of control panel layouts. This effort includes the ability to architect and specify control system designs and give work direction to technicians creating the drawings
• Provide on-site startup, commissioning, and troubleshooting support activities for deployed systems into production environments
• Ensure compliance with system and software development life cycle methodologies, including commissioning documentation
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including electrical engineers, process engineers, validation engineers, and project managers, to deliver projects on time and within budget
• Mentor junior engineers and technicians, fostering knowledge-sharing and technical growth

Technical Qualifications

• Familiarity with Rockwell Automation hardware and software including Control Logix and Studio
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• Develop HMI/SCADA hardware/software platforms such as ICONICS Genesis
  64, Inductive Automation Ignition, Wonderware ArchestrA System Platform, GE CIMPLICITY, GE iFIX, Rockwell Automation Factory Talk View, Emerson DeltaV, Schneider, and Siemens
• Familiarity with Historian, Alarm Management, and Advanced Control Strategies
• Experience with automation protocols (HART, Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus, Modbus TCP/IP, Ethernet/IP, OPC)
• Expertise in process control strategies, loop tuning, and system integration
• Understanding of industrial networking for communication between controllers, servers, and HMIs
• Familiarity with electrical design principles and working knowledge of AutoCAD is a plus
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex automation issues
• Experience in translating high-level functional requirements into detailed software design
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively on complex automation projects in industrial and manufacturing environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and collaboration with cross-functional teams and clients.
• Passion for quality craftsmanship, innovation, and problem-solving in mission-critical environments.

Sales & Business Development

• Participates in proposals and writes sections of proposals as directed by others
• Independently prepares proposals for small projects
• Provides support in developing estimates for project proposals
• Leads customer staff meetings when it affects assigned design tasks
• Identifies…