Controls Engineer

United States of America, Texas, Garland, Chemical Industry, Production / Operations

Work location:

Work location: United States of America , Texas , Garland

Sector:

Sector: Chemical Industry

Role:

Role: Production / Operations

Date of last update:

Date of last update: 02/10/2026 Expiry date: 31/10/2026

Our site in Garland - Texas ( US ), is currently looking for a

CONTROLS ENGINEER - INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

Reporting to the plant Preventive Maintenance Superintendent, our Controls Engineer manages high speed making and packaging lines with a focus on automation ; PLC and HMI Programming and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot current process PLC program and HMI on 4 existing lines; collaborate with other Controls Engineers and Process Engineers to accomplish improvements to the existing lines
• Provide instruction and guidance to less experienced technical employees
• Assist in the design of control systems (I/O and Motor Lists, P&ID's etc.)
• Create functional requirements specification documents with the corresponding FAT and SAT plans
• Perform on-site startup , commissioning, validate and support
• Identify changes in scope and notify Project/Engineering Manager in a timely manner
• Develop approaches to solve problems , handle customer demands, changes and complaints
• Contribute a broad technical competence to the team, along with superior communication, correspondence, and mediation skills
• Assist in managing project's resources, schedule, budget and scope
• Provides input and resolves issues during the Estimating and Fabrication processes
• Manage and develop project deliverables independently or within a team.

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Will manage other people: No

Type of contract: Permanent job

Career level: Employee

Skills required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent automation experience
• 5 + years of experience with Industrial Automation
• OSHA
• PLC/HMI (RS Studio 5000/ControlLogix; Wonderware Intouch and ArchestrA System Platform; Inductive Automation Ignition; Factory Talk ME/PanelView and SE)
• Drives/VFDs (Power Flex and Kinetix Servo Drives)
• Networks (Ethernet, DLR, CISCO Switches)
• Software/Database (C++; C#, NET, Java, SQL and Oracle)
• Good analytical skills
• Team player

Zobele by kdc/one is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and qualifications.