Controls Engineer

Controls Engineer

Location: North Las Vegas, Nevada

Employment: Full-time

Travel: Less than 10%

Compensation: Strong base salary plus 10% target bonus.

Take Ownership of the Systems That Keep Production Running

Put your controls expertise to work across PLC programming, HMI/SCADA systems and plant instrumentation. This hands-on technical role offers the independence to solve complex problems and deliver improvements to production reliability, safety and efficiency.

Package & Benefits

• Salary package reflecting your technical expertise.
• Relocation considered for suitable candidates.
• Opportunities to develop towards technical specialist and regional engineering roles.

Why This Business

Our client is an established industrial minerals producer serving manufacturing, construction and environmental markets. You’ll join a wider automation team supporting operating production plants, working with both legacy equipment and modern control technologies.

What you’ll be doing

• Write, modify and troubleshoot PLC programmes, including ladder logic, function blocks and structured text, to improve equipment performance.
• Develop and maintain HMI/SCADA systems, diagnose instrumentation faults and resolve process control issues alongside production and maintenance teams.
• Support industrial networks, drive systems, equipment commissioning and controls upgrades, primarily at Apex with occasional support for other sites.
• Improve industrial data acquisition, historian systems and reporting to give plant teams clearer insight into production performance.

The expertise you’ll need

• A bachelor’s degree in automation or a related engineering discipline, with a strong industrial automation background.
• Around five years’ relevant controls or process automation experience; slightly fewer years considered where experience closely matches the role.
• Hands-on PLC programming and HMI/SCADA experience. Rockwell/Allen-Bradley, PlantPAx, FactoryTalk View SE and Wonderware InTouch or Historian experience is particularly relevant.
• Practical fault-finding skills across plant controls, instrumentation and industrial networks, with the ability to work independently and communicate clearly with operators and maintenance teams.

The role is fully on-site in an industrial plant environment, with occasional after-hours and weekend support.

Apply now for a confidential conversation with Walker Lovell.