Controls Engineer

Controls Engineer (Facilities & Utilities)

Ready to work on the systems that keep a pharmaceutical facility running? We're looking for an Automation Controls Engineer to support critical facility, utility, and environmental control systems within a highly regulated manufacturing environment. This is a hands-on role supporting everything from cleanroom HVAC and Building Management Systems (BMS) to purified water, clean steam, and environmental monitoring systems.

What You'll Do

• Support and troubleshoot BMS, EMS, PLC, HMI, and SCADA systems
• Ensure reliable operation of cleanroom HVAC, pressure, temperature, and humidity control systems
• Maintain and optimize critical utility systems including purified water, WFI, clean steam, compressed air, process gases, and chilled water
• Respond to alarms, investigate system issues, and drive root cause analysis
• Support control system upgrades, change controls, and validation activities
• Configure alarms, trends, graphics, databases, and monitoring systems
• Troubleshoot field instrumentation, sensors, valves, VFDs, networks, and control loops
• Partner with Facilities, Maintenance, Quality, Validation, and Engineering teams on system improvements
• Participate in commissioning, qualification, and reliability improvement projects
• Help ensure systems remain compliant, validated, and inspection-ready

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in controls, automation, facilities, utilities, or building systems
• Hands-on experience with Building Management Systems (BMS) and/or Environmental Monitoring Systems (EMS)
• Strong PLC, HMI, and SCADA troubleshooting experience
• Experience supporting HVAC controls, cleanrooms, or critical utility systems
• Ability to read P&IDs, electrical drawings, and control schematics
• Comfortable working in manufacturing facilities, utility areas, and cleanroom environments

Preferred Experience

• Pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, semiconductor, food, or other regulated manufacturing environments
• Purified Water (PW), Water for Injection (WFI), and Clean Steam systems
• GMP and FDA-regulated environments
• Commissioning, qualification, and validation activities
• OT cybersecurity and industrial networking
• Environmental Monitoring Systems and cleanroom operations
• Sterile manufacturing or aseptic processing environments

This is a Permanent position based out of Sacramento, CA.

The pay range for this position is $135000.00 - $160000.00/yr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Company offers medical, dental and vision

This is a fully onsite position in Sacramento,CA.

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 14, 2026.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.