Field Service Controls & Automation Engineer

Field Service Controls & Automation Engineer

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$75,000.00/yr – $75,000.00/yr

Step into a week on the road

You start your morning at a customer site in the Houston area, laptop open, PLC online. By lunch, you’ve traced a fault through electrical schematics, tuned a hydraulic circuit, and verified robot motion. Before day’s end, you’ve calibrated the machine, validated safety, and documented the repair so production can run at full speed. That’s a typical day as our Field Service Controls & Automation Engineer.

• Install, commission, service, and repair advanced manufacturing machinery across customer locations in the Houston area.
• Diagnose complex issues across electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems using schematics and test equipment.
• Work safely on high voltage systems with hands‑on expertise.
• Troubleshoot and program PLCs to restore functionality and optimize performance.
• Program and support industrial robots in production environments.
• Perform precise machine calibration to meet specification and quality targets.
• Document work performed and communicate findings to customers and internal teams.
• Travel extensively (approximately 90%) to customer sites.

• 3–5 years of field service experience in manufacturing environments.
• Must have hands‑on high voltage experience.
• Must have experience with PLCs, including troubleshooting and programming.
• Background working with hydraulics and robotics.
• Machine calibration experience.

• Reading and interpreting electrical schematics
• Mechanical troubleshooting
• Hydraulic systems setup and diagnostics
• Industrial robot programming
• Electrical troubleshooting
• PLC programming experience
• High voltage systems
• Pneumatics troubleshooting

• Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC):
  Allen‑Bradley, Siemens

Houston area coverage with up to 90% travel to customer facilities.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Industry: Industrial Machinery Manufacturing