Automation & Controls Engineer - PLC & Instrumentation

The Gowan Co.; Blytheville (AR); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Gowan Co. is seeking a Process Control / Instrumentation Engineer to support the Engineering Department under the supervision of the Engineering Manager.

This on-site role focuses on designing PLC-based control for new production systems, start-up, preventive maintenance, data acquisition, and project oversight. Responsibilities include reading and creating electrical schematics with AutoCAD/SolidWorks, maintaining plant control systems, and being on-call with potential night/weekend work.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of industrial process control and instrumentation.
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of PLC based automated process control for new production systems.
• System start-up support.
• Establishing, implementation of, and maintaining Preventive Maintenance programs for all new and existing process control and instrumentation systems.
• Maintaining all plant process control and instrumentation systems.
• Establishing, implementation of, and maintaining a Data Acquisition program for all new and existing systems.
• Project Management.
• Develop and design electrical and controls system schematics and drawings based on engineering principles using AutoCAD/SolidWorks.
• Ability to read, interpret and troubleshoot electrical schematics and control systems.
• On-call position, may require working nights and weekends.

Skills

Process control

Instrumentation

PLC programming

AutoCAD

SolidWorks

Data acquisition

Project management

Reading/electrical schematics

Tools

AutoCAD

SolidWorks

Job description

The Gowan Co. is seeking a Process Control / Instrumentation Engineer to support the Engineering Department under the supervision of the Engineering Manager.

This on-site role focuses on designing PLC-based control for new production systems, start-up, preventive maintenance, data acquisition, and project oversight. Responsibilities include reading and creating electrical schematics with AutoCAD/SolidWorks, maintaining plant control systems, and being on-call with potential night/weekend work.