Advanced Automation / Controls Engineer

About This Role

This Advanced Automation / Controls Engineer role leads the entire controls engineering scope for small-to-medium projects, ensuring continuity, maintainability, and long-term support within cleanroom and cGMP environments. The engineer will also elevate safety, reliability, robustness, and serviceability while mentoring junior engineers and technicians.

Responsibilities

• Lead entire controls engineering scope independently for small-to-medium projects
• Ensure continuity, maintainability, and long-term support within cleanroom and cGMP environments
• Elevate safety, reliability, robustness, and serviceability of control systems
• Delegate tasks to technicians and junior engineers as appropriate
• Provide initial first-line support at startup and transition to Manufacturing Engineering and Maintenance as second-line support
• Plan project scope, schedule, budget, risks, and dependencies; deliver on time and within budget
• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers
• Author and review P&IDs, electrical schematics, pneumatic diagrams, and panel/device layouts
• Design and validate safety circuits; configure operator interfaces, relays/contactors, transducers, pneumatics, motors/drives
• Develop maintainable ladder logic architectures and HMI UX, robust signal conditioning, PID and sequencing
• Design and implement SCADA integrations including security, alarming, data logging/visualization, and scripting
• Define and execute test plans, lead root cause analysis, implement corrective actions, and document lessons learned
• Support cGMP validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) and ensure comprehensive records and traceability
• Drive reliability and uptime improvements; contribute to standards and design-for-maintenance/safety enhancements

Requirements

• 6+ years related controls/automation experience
• Prior industry exposure (preferred)
• Working knowledge of NEC, UL, CE codes/standards
• Proficient in AutoCAD (Mechanical or Electrical)
• Strong ladder logic and HMI development
• Modular code organization and robust fault handling
• Advanced motion control (servo) capability for single- and multi-axis systems
• Managed local networking and remote connectivity using routers
• Hands-on SCADA integration experience
• Intermediate Python and SQL for scripting/data
• Basic database table design and reporting strategies
• Demonstrated independent commissioning of multiple unique systems of moderate complexity

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or similar) in a relevant discipline; equivalent experience considered.
• 6+ years related controls/automation experience with prior industry exposure preferred.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with hazardous-area design/compliance (Class I Div 1/Div 2, intrinsically safe circuits, explosion-proof enclosures)

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits