Senior Controls Engineer

Job Summary

Senior Controls Engineer Woodward’s Aerospace Division is seeking a Controls Engineer for our Fort Collins, Colorado Aerospace facility. We are seeking a skilled and motivated Controls Engineer to design, implement, and optimize medium to high complexity control systems. The ideal candidate will lead projects, provide production support, and drive process improvements, while ensuring alignment with industry standards, safety regulations, and best practices.

• Estimated annual base pay: $93,000 (min) - $121,000 (mid) - $149,000 (max)
• Relocation assistance provided to relocate to Fort Collins, CO if required.
• All members included in annual cash bonus opportunity.
• 401(k) match (4.5%)
• Annual Woodward stock contribution (5%)
• Tuition reimbursement and Training/Professional Development opportunities for all members
• 12 paid holidays
• Industry leading medical, dental, and vision insurance upon date of hire
• Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits
• Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life
• Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care
• Flexible Spending Voluntary benefits, including:
  Home / Auto Insurance discounts Whole Life Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance / Legal Assistance / Military Leave

• Controls System Design: develops and implements medium to high complexity control systems, ensures they meet industry standards and best practices, participates in system commissioning and ensures designs meet project requirements.
• Project Support and Leadership: lead medium-sized controls projects, including risk assessments, process improvements, and resource coordination.
• Production Support & Troubleshooting: analyzes and solves moderately complex control system issues in production and development by evaluating multiple factors and applying technical expertise.
• Technical Documentation: create and refine complex control system documentation, including diagrams, manuals, and reports to ensure alignment with best practices and compliance requirements.
• Automation, Safety and System Integration: design and implement moderately complex automation and safety systems, ensures safety standards are met and integrates them into control systems.

• Problem Solving, Critical Thinking and Analytical
  
  Skills:
  
  solve complex production challenges by applying advanced problem-solving methods, such as DOE or Six Sigma tools.
• Communication and Collaboration
  
  Skills:
  
  present ideas and recommendations to leadership, facilitating collaboration across departments.
• Mentorship: provide guidance to entry-level engineers and interns on projects and problem-solving approaches, offer constructive feedback to help them grow and develop their skills.
• Mechatronics Knowledge: advanced understanding of mechatronics theory, interaction between mechanical components, electrical systems, and control logic, ability to analyze and apply these concepts to moderately complex systems.
• Programming & Data Management: develops and optimizes complex programs for tasks such as advanced system automation, data processing, or analytics, implements robust practices to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and security in all applications.
• Process Improvement/Optimization: leverages advancements in control technologies and automation to identify and implement process improvements, analyzes system data to drive measurable gains in productivity, cycle time, and equipment utilization.
• New Technology Development: independently evaluates and integrates emerging technologies into moderately complex or small-scale projects, evaluates and optimizes new technologies, assessing their applicability to controls systems.
• Communication Protocols and Networking: proficient in implementing industrial communication protocols (e.g., Modbus, PROFINET, Ethernet/IP) and configuring network components like switches and VLANs, ensures reliable data exchange between devices by optimizing network setups.
• Data Analysis: advanced understanding of data analysis…