Senior Controls Engineer

Title: Senior Controls Engineer

Location: East Coast region

This is an opportunity to join a F&B manufacturing operation in the middle of significant growth and expansion. You’ll have direct influence over controls strategy, automation performance, equipment reliability, and future production capabilities.

What You’ll Do:

✅ Design, program, troubleshoot, and optimize PLCs, HMIs, robotics, motion controls, VFDs, instrumentation, industrial networks, and data collection systems

✅ Develop and standardize control architecture, electrical designs, programming standards, and components across processing, filling, packaging, and material-handling systems

✅ Partner with Production and Maintenance to troubleshoot complex controls and electrical issues, perform root-cause analysis, and minimize downtime

✅ Lead controls upgrades, automation improvements, equipment installations, startups, and commissioning

✅ Coordinate electricians, contractors, project schedules, budgets, and equipment implementation

✅ Train Maintenance and Operations teams on controls systems, troubleshooting, and equipment functionality

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Automation Engineering, or related discipline

• 5+ years of Controls/Electrical Engineering experience

• Strong PLC programming experience with Allen-Bradley/Rockwell and/or Siemens

• Experience with B&R, HMIs, VFDs, robotics, motion control, instrumentation, and industrial networks is highly valuable

• Food, beverage, pharma or high-speed manufacturing experience preferred

• Startup, commissioning, and equipment installation experience highly desirable

Why Consider It?

✅ Modern, highly automated manufacturing environment

✅ Major facility and production expansion underway

✅ Growing Process, Controls & Automation Engineering team

✅ Significant involvement in new equipment and automation projects

✅ Opportunity to influence controls standards and future automation strategy

✅ Relocation assistance available