Corporate Automation & Controls Engineer IV

Job Details:

The Corporate Automation and Controls Engineer IV provides technical expertise and direction for control and automation systems. This position assists with control and automation systems, data acquisition, and production network management. This position will either have responsibility for multiple plants or for projects that affect multiple plants.

The Corporate Automation and Controls Engineer IV is also responsible for troubleshooting electrical problems as they relate to the production line process. This position will provide ongoing technical guidance and coaching/mentoring to the Plant Controls personnel to strengthen their troubleshooting and repair skills.

This role is responsible for general engineering work that supports technical innovation, complex system design, and advanced problem-solving. At the manager individual-contributor level, it leads high-impact engineering projects, resolves complex technical challenges, and establishes technical standards without formal people-management accountability. Success in the role depends on deep engineering mastery, technical influence, and guiding cross-functional project teams through specialized expertise and operational discipline.

This role will require 60% travel.

Applicants currently residing in the following states will be considered:

AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, TX, UT, VT, WI, WV, HI, SD, WY; AL, AR, GA, FL, MD, NC, SC, PA.

Essential Duties

Specific responsibilities include (divided into four major categories), but are not limited to:

Plant engineering support:

• Act as the primary internal engineering resource concerning control systems. • Identify opportunities to improve plant performance.

• Share best practices across the organization.

Strategic project development:

• Help create and maintain controls team standards.

• Share and enforce standards across the organization.

• Lead and facilitate strategic projects that cover multiple plants.

• Lead and facilitate new plants/processes.

Plant support and troubleshooting:

• Provide plant support in instances where local plant personnel or regionals are struggling.

• Provide relevant training for control systems where applicable

• Provide troubleshooting expertise through remote support and onsite support when necessary

• Provide ongoing technical guidance and coaching/mentoring to plant controls personnel and regional engineers to strengthen their troubleshooting and repair skills.

Control Group Coordination:

• Coordinate with controls group for information and Standards

• Must maintain knowledge of contemporary technology and its application to this industry.

• Must communicate with controls team members through attendance at controls team meetings, conference calls, technical support (Based on GAF policies)

• Perform other duties as assigned at the discretion of the manager of this position.

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Required

• 5+ Years of Controls Engineering experience in a continuous manufacturing environment is required

• 10+ Years of Controls Engineering experience in a continuous manufacturing environment preferred

• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S., without current or future requirements for sponsorship of an employment-based visa status

• Proficiency with Rockwell Automation software - Studio 5000, RSLogix 500, FTView, CCW, and FTAC.

• Proficiency selecting, configuring, and troubleshooting Allen Bradley PowerFlex variable frequency drives

• HMI development experience - FTView and/or Wonderware

• Experience with maintaining Production networks, including servers and managed switches

• Expertise focused on electrical components, electrical power distribution systems, PLC’s, instrumentation, and variable speed AC drives

• Demonstrated process control experience in defining, designing, installing, and maintaining control logic systems and equipment in a continuous process manufacturing environment

• Effective communication skills.

• Proficiency selecting, configuring, and troubleshooting Allen-Bradley Kinetix servo drives

• Experience selecting, configuring, and troubleshooting Allen-Bradley safety PLCs, I/O, and STO hardware

• Demonstrated experience of leading controls projects to fruition: Preparing scope, meeting with vendors, evaluating vendor progress, and managing the installation/startup.

• Demonstrated ability to use trending and other analytical tools to troubleshoot process issues.

• Controls SME with a continuous web handling operation

• Deep understanding of basic electrical theory.

• Knowledge of electrical/electromechanical devices

• Knowledge of different types of instrumentation and how to calibrate them; Pressure, temperature, flow.

• Knowledge of different types of instrumentation and how to calibrate them; Pressure, temperature, flow.

• Ability to tune PID controllers

• Controls experience with a continuous web handling operation is preferred, not required