Senior Controls Engineer

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Orenco is seeking a highly motivated and forward-thinking Senior Controls Engineer to lead the automation of engineering design and manufacturing. This role is essential in driving standardization across control panel designs while ensuring that Orenco’s engineering, manufacturing, and customer support teams operate seamlessly through structured processes, tools, and documentation.

As a technical expert with a product management mindset, you will bridge engineering innovation and business strategy by optimizing component selection, panel assembly, and market-driven product improvements. You will oversee the integration of CPQ (Configure Price Quote) development, EEC (EPLAN Engineering Configuration), EPLAN (software), and shop floor operations, ensuring that Engineering Design Guidelines, Quality Control manuals, SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure), and customer support knowledge bases remain standardized, up to date, in compliance with industry standards, and scalable for future growth.

This is more than just an engineering role-it’s an opportunity to lead industry innovation, standardize best practices, and shape the future of control panel technology at Orenco.

• Continuously maintains Orenco management’s safety, cultural, and professional standards.
• Promotes, encourages, and reinforces a positive safety culture, safe practices, and a safe work environment to all employees.

• Lead and project manage the deployment and integration of EPLAN Engineering Configurator (EEC) to automate engineering design and manufacturing workflows.
• Ensure EEC, EPLAN, CPQ, Quoter, and shop floor operations are fully integrated for seamless design-to-manufacturing execution.
• Develop and implement Engineering Design Guidelines to standardize custom controls while embedding continuous improvement into Orenco’s standard panel lines.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and quality control teams to align SOPs, quality manuals, and best practices with standardized design methodologies.
• Oversee revision control and approval processes, ensuring accurate, up-to-date documentation that supports efficiency at every stage of the product lifecycle.
• Develop, program, and troubleshoot PLC (Programmable Logic controller) and HMI (Human Machine Interface) systems from various manufacturers (Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Schneider, etc.).

• Market Intelligence - Stay ahead of industry trends, competitor offerings, and customer needs to shape Orenco’s control panel product strategy.
• Component Optimization - Work with procurement and supply chain to identify, negotiate, and select high-quality, cost-sensitive components, balancing price, availability, and performance.
• Cost vs. Value Analysis - Work with cost accounting to evaluate aggregate control panel costs, factoring in labor savings from automation, ensuring that higher-cost components are justified by improved efficiency and scalability.
• Vendor and Supplier Relations - Partner with procurement to negotiate pricing, secure supply chains, and establish long-term partnerships with key component manufacturers.
• Rapid Prototyping and Customer Solutions - Lead rapid prototyping efforts for control panels utilizing new component configurations, ensuring feasibility before full production. Collaborate with the engineering team to evaluate new customer and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) needs, providing value-engineered solutions that optimize design, cost, and manufacturability. Support customers in scaling their panel volume, ensuring that Orenco’s control solutions help drive efficiency, reliability, and business growth for their operations.
• New Product Introduction - Work closely with engineering and production teams to successfully integrate new…