Lead Controls Engineer: PLC/HMI, Commissioning & Field Startup

Jim Myers & Sons, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus opportunities

Company paid medical

Dental and life insurance

401K

Excellent training

Great family work environment

Paid vacation and holiday

Job summary

Jim Myers & Sons, Inc is seeking a Controls Engineer to lead controls design for projects. You will own electrical documentation, PLC/HMI programming, testing, commissioning, and field troubleshooting from kickoff to closeout.

Work with project engineers and design teams to define scope, equipment, and schedules, travel to customer sites as needed, and ensure safety and reliability of control systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, commissioning, and troubleshooting industrial control systems.
• Proficient in PLC and HMI programming; Rockwell and Siemens platforms preferred.
• Knowledge of control panels, motor controls, VFDs, and industrial networks.

Responsibilities

• Define controls scope, deliverables, schedule, budget and risks with project engineers.
• Create control narratives, IO lists, schematics, and bill of materials.
• Program, configure, test, and document PLCs, HMIs, and VFDs; support commissioning.
• Coordinate interfaces with design, manufacturing, vendors, and customers.
• Provide site checkout, startup, tuning, training, and field troubleshooting.

Skills

PLC programming

HMI programming

Rockwell/Siemens

Field troubleshooting

Project coordination

MS Office

Education

Bachelors in Electrical/Controls Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD Electrical

EPLAN

SolidWorks Electrical

Job description

Jim Myers & Sons, Inc is seeking a Controls Engineer to lead controls design for projects. You will own electrical documentation, PLC/HMI programming, testing, commissioning, and field troubleshooting from kickoff to closeout.

Work with project engineers and design teams to define scope, equipment, and schedules, travel to customer sites as needed, and ensure safety and reliability of control systems.