Senior Controls Technician

Controls Technician

Join GALLO as a Controls Technician and play a key role in advancing safe, reliable, and high-performing plant operations. In this hands-on technical role, you will maintain, install, troubleshoot, repair, and calibrate plant instrumentation and control systems while applying advanced knowledge of programming, process controls, and production equipment. You will help minimize downtime, improve performance, and recommend practical solutions that strengthen both processes and equipment.

As a trusted technical resource, you will serve as the Controls Lead for complex issues requiring escalation and support Plant Engineering projects as a controls lead or systems integrator. Your work may include PLC and HMI project adjustments, equipment upgrades, electrical component replacement and parameter downloads, MES and Historian tag integration, Kepware changes, and troubleshooting communication networks such as DeviceNet, Data Highway, and CAN I/O.

You will collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, vendors, and cross-functional partners to develop ideas, evaluate technical and cost information, execute continuous-improvement initiatives, and support capital assets and new-product commercialization. You will help identify obsolescence risks, research and implement technology improvements, assess test results, and communicate project progress, timelines, budgets, and potential roadblocks.

Success in this role calls for curiosity, sound judgment, collaboration, and a commitment to continuous learning. You will use Lean Six Sigma principles to investigate challenges and deliver improvements that support equipment reliability, yield, and efficiency. Safety, quality, GMP, environmental responsibility, and regulatory compliance are central to every assignment. You will maintain a clean, safe work area, address conditions that could affect production or wellbeing, and support colleagues wherever needed. We welcome individuals with diverse experiences and perspectives who are ready to contribute, grow, and make a meaningful impact.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor of Science Degree plus 3 year of working with PLC controls, logic circuits, pneumatic and electrical equipment; OR 2 years technical degree in electrical technology plus 5 years of experience working with PLC controls, logic circuits, pneumatic and electrical equipment; OR High school diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 7 years of experience working with PLC controls, logic circuits, pneumatic and electrical equipment.
• Required to climb stairs and ladders; required to conduct work at heights.
• Knowledgeable of Electrical Safety procedures.
• May be required to work a rotating shift/schedule (e.g., day, swing, graveyard, 5x8, 4x10) as well as weekends and overtime.
• Skilled in reading, comprehending, interpreting and executing simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.
• Skilled in writing simple correspondence.
• Skilled in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing using whole numbers.
• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.
• Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

Gallo's policy is to afford equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and not to discriminate on the basis of race, traits associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles (such as braids, locks, and twists), color, national origin, ancestry, creed, religion, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law (including cancer and predisposing genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, familial status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation (actual or perceived), transgender status, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, reproductive health decision making, age, military or veteran status, domestic violence or sexual assault victim status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Nor will Gallo discriminate based on a perception that an individual has any of the foregoing characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.

Gallo will comply with state and local laws prohibiting discrimination for lawful out-of-work behavior, such as off-duty use of cannabis away from the workplace (subject to federal and state law exceptions), the existence of non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites in hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids as determined by a drug screening test (subject to federal and state law exceptions).

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gallo is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please let us know at View phone number on click.appcast.io.

Gallo is enrolled in the Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify program and will use the program to verify the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees as required.