Controls Engineering Manager

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Our mission is to protect the world's water. We work every day to support the sustainability of our most precious resource, so our people know what they're doing matters.

Orenco Systems, Inc. (subsidiary of Infiltrator Water Technologies) is a manufacturer of innovative onsite and decentralized wastewater collection and treatment technologies. Solutions include community collection systems, advanced secondary treatment systems, watertight fiberglass tanks, and in‑tank pumping and filtration systems. Orenco also manufactures high‑quality standard, custom, and OEM controls, along with state‑of‑the‑art fiberglass buildings, tanks, and enclosures.

Infiltrator Water Technologies is a market leader within the onsite wastewater treatment industry, manufacturing a variety of revolutionary products and innovative, environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional stone and pipe leach field and concrete septic wastewater system components. We sell our products through wholesale distribution across the United States and Canada for use on properties with onsite wastewater treatment systems.

Leads, manages, and directs a diverse workforce of engineers, technicians and programmers to design, optimize, and enhance electronic control systems and instruments that automate and monitor industrial processes. This role is essential in driving standardization across control panel designs while ensuring that Orenco's sales, engineering, product management, manufacturing, supply chain, and customer support teams operate seamlessly through structured processes, tools, and documentation.

Develops control panel technical designs, wiring diagrams, panel layouts, I/O mapping PLC block programming, and control schematics. Configures systems using PLC and HMI techniques. Models, tests, and measures output and data to analyze performance or quality issues and develop solutions.

The Controls Engineering Manager bridges engineering innovation and business strategy by optimizing component selection, panel assembly, and market‑driven product improvements. Oversees the integration of Configure Price Quote (CPQ) development, EEC (EPLAN Engineering Configuration), EPLAN (software), and shop floor operations, ensuring that Engineering Design Guidelines, Quality Control manuals, SOP's (Standard Operating Procedures), 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.

• Manages the deployment and integration of EPLAN Engineering Configurator (EEC) to automate engineering design and manufacturing workflows.
• Ensures EEC, EPLAN, CPQ, Quoter, and shop floor operations are fully integrated for seamless design‑to‑manufacturing execution.
• Develops and implements Engineering Design Guidelines to standardize custom controls while embedding continuous improvement into Orenco's standard panel lines.
• Collaborates across sales, engineering, operations, manufacturing, quality control, and supply chain to align SOP's testing procedures, and quality documentation with standardized design and production.
• Oversees revision control and approval processes, ensuring accurate, up‑to‑date documentation that supports efficiency at every stage of the product lifecycle.
• Develops, programs, and troubleshoots PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) and HMI (Human Machine Interface) systems from various manufacturers (Allen‑Bradley, Siemens, Schneider, etc.).

• Market Intelligence
  • Stays ahead of industry trends, competitor offerings, and customer need to shape Orenco's control panel product strategy.
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