Electrical & Controls​/Automation Engineer

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Job Summary

Position Summary The Electrical & Controls/Automation Engineer is an individual contributor and technical subject matter expert responsible for providing enterprise-level technical leadership across electrical, controls, industrial networking, PLC, SCADA, and automation systems. This position serves as one of Engineering’s highest technical authorities for complex automation and electrical systems. The Electrical & Controls/Automation Engineer is expected to personally solve the organization’s most difficult technical problems while establishing technical standards, mentoring engineering and technician resources, and improving the reliability, maintainability, and performance of automated manufacturing equipment.

Travel Requirement: NONE

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Troubleshooting Serve as technical escalation point for complex electrical, controls, PLC, SCADA, networking, and automation issues across manufacturing operations.

Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of difficult or recurring equipment failures that cannot be resolved through normal maintenance and engineering escalation paths.

Diagnose complex interactions between electrical systems, PLC logic, industrial networks, drives, motion systems, instrumentation, safety systems, SCADA, and equipment controls.

Use a structured, data-driven troubleshooting methodology to identify root causes rather than relying on component replacement or trial-and-error troubleshooting.

Provide hands-on technical support during critical equipment failures and high-impact production events.

Identify systemic technical weaknesses and develop permanent corrective actions that improve equipment reliability and reduce repeat failures.

PLC & Controls Systems Serve as a technical resource for industrial electrical systems and machine-control hardware.

Troubleshoot complex electrical problems involving control power, power distribution, motors, VFDs, servo systems, safety circuits, sensors, instrumentation, grounding, noise, and communication systems.

Troubleshoot, modify, optimize, and validate complex PLC programs and machine-control architectures.

Industrial Networking Serve as a technical authority for industrial networking and OT communications.

Troubleshoot complex network and communication failures involving PLCs, SCADA systems, HMIs, drives, remote I/O, vision systems, instrumentation, servers, and manufacturing equipment.

Demonstrate expert-level understanding of Ethernet/IP, industrial Ethernet, TCP/IP, VLANs, managed switches, network segmentation, routing fundamentals, addressing, communication diagnostics, and industrial network architecture.

Work collaboratively with IT and cybersecurity teams to maintain secure, reliable connectivity between operational technology and enterprise systems.

SCADA, HMI & Manufacturing Systems Provide technical leadership for SCADA and HMI architecture, configuration, troubleshooting, and integration.

Troubleshoot communication and data-flow issues between equipment controls, SCADA, historians, databases, and manufacturing information systems.

Support development of standardized approaches for equipment connectivity, tag structures, alarms, data collection, and system integration.

Partner with Digital Transformation and Manufacturing Intelligence resources to enable reliable acquisition and use of equipment data.

Reliability & Root Cause Engineering Partner with Reliability Engineering and factory engineering teams to identify recurring failure modes using downtime, alarm, maintenance, and equipment-performance data.

Develop engineered solutions that eliminate failure modes rather than repeatedly restoring equipment to operation.

Identify opportunities for condition monitoring, predictive diagnostics, improved alarming, and automated fault detection.

Technical Mentorship Serve as a technical mentor to Controls Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Controls Technicians, Engineering Technicians, and other engineering resources.

Develop the troubleshooting capabilities of plant engineering teams through…