Senior Batch Automation Engineer

Senior Batch Automation Engineer

Matrix Technologies is a 100% employee-owned engineering, construction, automation, and digital transformation company delivering full lifecycle solutions to industrial clients. From concept and design through construction, commissioning, and optimization, we help keep industry moving.

Guided by The Matrix Way and our core purpose of Enhancing People's Lives…Every Day, we foster a collaborative, people-focused culture built on teamwork, growth, and employee ownership. As a recognized Top Workplace, we offer professional development opportunities, flexible work arrangements, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to share in our success.

Join our team as a Senior Batch Engineer!

This is a hybrid role based out of our Maumee, OH office. The position is salaried and includes eligibility for overtime pay.

The Senior Batch Engineer is a senior-level automation professional responsible for designing, configuring, testing, commissioning, and supporting batch control solutions for manufacturing clients. This role requires strong process controls experience, practical knowledge of ISA-88 batch concepts, and the ability to translate process requirements into reliable, maintainable automation solutions.

Project work involves a variety of clients in multiple industries using batch management platforms, DCS/PLC-based control systems, HMI/SCADA applications, historians, and integration technologies. The Senior Batch Engineer interfaces with clients, operations teams, project managers, and internal engineering disciplines to develop functional specifications, configure batch recipes and phases, support software testing, and lead successful system start-ups.

Key Responsibilities

• Learn and follow industry, Matrix, and client safety practices and procedures. Help supervise site-team safety responsibilities and support compliance with company and client site safety policies.
• Learn and follow Matrix Standards and Procedures. Mentor others in their use and participate in continuous improvement of batch automation standards, templates, and reusable deliverables.
• Apply Matrix Project Methodology with an emphasis on software development, batch system implementation, testing, commissioning, and automation best practices.
• Lead or support the development of project scopes of work, preliminary design concepts, cost estimates, schedules, and technical assumptions for batch automation projects.
• Gather field data, review existing control system designs, and develop functional specifications, control narratives, batch design documents, configuration requirements, and test plans.
• Design, configure, and support ISA-88-based batch solutions including recipes, unit procedures, operations, phases, equipment modules, procedural logic, prompts, parameters, reports, and exception handling.
• Develop or coordinate DCS/PLC code, HMI graphics, batch interfaces, historian integration, and communications with external computing platforms as required by the project scope.
• Lead software development and testing activities including design reviews, code reviews, software Factory Acceptance Tests, Site Acceptance Tests, commissioning, start-up, and post-start-up support. Troubleshoot batch execution issues, recipe configuration problems, control logic defects, communication failures, and integration issues across PLC, DCS, SCADA, and batch management systems.
• Develop high-quality, error-free industrial automation software and configuration in keeping with project requirements, client standards, and good engineering practices.
• Communicate effectively with other engineering disciplines to coordinate designs, resolve interface requirements, and deliver integrated automation solutions.
• Serve as a trusted technical resource for clients. Identify new project opportunities, support proposal efforts, and help define practical solutions that improve plant reliability, consistency, and performance.
• Provide leadership, technical guidance, and mentoring to less experienced engineers and team members.
• Learn and follow Matrix Core Values and set the example for others

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical, Computer, or Controls Engineering or a related field from an ABET-accredited college or university.
• Minimum six years of controls, automation, electrical troubleshooting, and start-up experience. Senior-level batch automation experience is required.
• Hands-on experience with batch control concepts, recipe management, procedural control, equipment phases, unit operations, and ISA-88 terminology and design principles.
• Experience with one or more batch or process automation platforms such as Rockwell Factory Talk Batch, PlantPAx, Siemens SIMATIC BATCH, AVEVA/Wonderware, or comparable systems.
• Experience with Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation, Siemens, and/or other PLC/DCS platforms used in process manufacturing environments.
• Experience developing or supporting HMI/SCADA systems such as Factory Talk View,…