PLC Programmer - Industrial Facilities

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Home District/Group:Kiewit Industrial & Water Engineering

Employment Type:Full Time

Kiewit’s Industrial & Water markets are experiencing rapid growth across North America, and we’re expanding our team with Senior PLC Programmers who want to lead, innovate, and build systems that actually get constructed. This is a high‑impact role for engineers who thrive in EPC environments and want to shape the automation, control, and instrumentation strategies behind some of the most complex industrial facilities in the country.

You’ll work across all phases of design — from early feasibility and architecture development through detailed engineering, construction support, commissioning, and turnover. Our projects span Data Centers, Water/Wastewater Treatment, Mineral Processing, Industrial Energy, Renewable Fuels, Specialty Chemical, and Advanced Manufacturing
. If you want variety, technical challenge, and career acceleration, this is the place.

Kiewit offers stability, competitive pay, unmatched benefits, employee ownership, and a backlog of work that ensures long‑term career growth. We build projects that strengthen communities — and we build careers that last.

Kiewit Engineering Group, Inc is a full-service engineering consulting and design firm serving a broad range of the industrial markets. Our combined staff of more than 1,700 engineers and design professionals have expertise that spans all major engineering disciplines to serve the industrial, transportation, power, water/wastewater, mining, building, and oil, gas & chemical markets. Our operations‑focused engineering provides our clients with safe and efficient facilities, and it integrates our 130 years of construction experience to finish projects on time and to make sure that Nobody Gets Hurt.

Our rapidly growing Industrial Engineering team, which includes process, mechanical, electrical, controls, structural, architectural, geotechnical, and civil disciplines, is a multi‑faceted and leading‑edge division of Kiewit with best‑in‑class technical expertise focused on EPC and design‑build delivery of industrial projects in markets such as Food & Beverage, Mineral Processing, Renewable Fuels, Pulp and Paper, Steel & Aluminum, Industrial Buildings, and Industrial Energy, Water and Utilities.

This position is based out of Lenexa, Kansas or Lone Tree, Colorado office and we offer relocation assistance. Some consideration may be made for Stellar candidates (more senior PLC Programmers - 8+ years with applicable industrial experience) in other Kiewit office locations in the US, near other major Kiewit offices.

What You’ll Do

• Evaluate, select, and apply standard engineering methods, techniques, procedures, and criteria using independent judgment.
• Advise Kiewit project teams and clients on the appropriate type of Control System for water processes and/or other industrial applications.
• Develop company and maintain company programming standards.
• Understand and meet client requirements for electrical and mechanical needs.

Drive Technical Execution

• Write PLC programs using IEC 61131 standard programming languages, with an emphasis on Ladder Diagram, Function Block Diagram, Sequential Function Chart, and Structured Text.
• Design HMI/SCADA graphic screens based on mechanical P&IDs or PFDs.
• Test Control System programs using simulation code
• Have a working knowledge of industry standards and regulations (e.g., ISA, IEEE).
• Prepare manuals to instruct users how to operate the Control System.
• Troubleshoot Control System and Network system faults.
• Supervise the installation of Control System programs by performing an IO…