Controls & Automation Director — P.E.-Licensed
Cognify Global
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Job summary
Cognify Global is seeking a Controls & Automation professional with a Texas PE license to join our Houston team. Roles range from Senior Controls Engineer to Director, focusing on technical delivery, SME development, and growth of the function.
You will lead across PLC, DCS, HMI and SCADA, mentor engineers, collaborate with clients and vendors, and help grow the practice. The company supports licensure expansion and strategic business development.
Qualifications
- Active Texas P.E. license – essential.
- Strong experience with PLC, DCS, HMI and/or SCADA systems.
- Proven experience delivering industrial controls projects from engineering through commissioning.
- Strong systems integration experience.
- Experience within Oil & Gas, Energy, Water/Wastewater, Chemical Processing or other industrial environments.
- Strong understanding of industrial automation and control systems.
- Excellent technical, communication and client-facing skills.
- Experience providing technical leadership and/or mentoring engineering teams.
- Willingness to obtain additional state P.E. licenses where required to support projects and areas of responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert for Controls & Automation across projects.
- Provide technical leadership across PLC, DCS, HMI and SCADA projects.
- Support the development and growth of the Controls & Automation team.
- Help establish engineering processes, standards and best practices.
- Lead Controls & Automation engineering activities across multiple projects.
- Develop and review control system designs, architectures and engineering documentation.
- Lead controls engineering from initial design through programming, integration, commissioning and startup.
- Develop control philosophies, functional specifications, I/O documentation and related engineering deliverables.
- Oversee PLC, DCS, HMI and SCADA programming and integration.
- Lead and support FAT, SAT, commissioning and startup activities.
- Troubleshooting and resolving complex controls and automation issues.
- Work closely with electrical, instrumentation, process and project engineering teams.
- Provide technical direction and mentoring to engineers.
- Work directly with clients, vendors and project partners.
- Support project estimating, proposals and business development.
- Support the recruitment and development of additional Controls & Automation personnel.
- For Manager/Director level: build and lead the team, shape strategic direction, oversee multiple projects and support business development.
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Job description
Cognify Global is seeking a Controls & Automation professional with a Texas PE license to join our Houston team. Roles range from Senior Controls Engineer to Director, focusing on technical delivery, SME development, and growth of the function.
You will lead across PLC, DCS, HMI and SCADA, mentor engineers, collaborate with clients and vendors, and help grow the practice. The company supports licensure expansion and strategic business development.
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