MHE Controls & Automation Engineer

CBRE Group, Inc.; Village of Liverpool (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE Group, Inc. in CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) seeks an Automation Engineer to join our controls and maintenance team, supporting automated material handling equipment for a major online retailer. You will work with PLC/PC controllers and SCADA-related systems to improve reliability and performance.

This role emphasizes safety, proactive troubleshooting, and collaboration with site operations, maintenance, and external contractors to deliver timely, high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities

• Promote a safe working environment by complying with applicable codes, regulations, governmental agencies, and company directives related to system operations and work safety.
• Troubleshoot and modify software programs for material handling control systems, including PLC/PC controllers, Allen Bradley Controllogix/Compactlogix PLC platform and RSLogix 5000 software package.
• Act as first level escalation in troubleshooting support, both on-site and remotely, as well as during and after business hours, to repair all MHE controls software systems.
• Inspect systems to ensure the operation of equipment is within design capabilities and achieves operational conditions prescribed by the client.
• Oversee scope of development, work request initiation, scheduling, and inspection of work performed by outside contractors, which includes proprietary work, licensed installations, upgrades, and maintenance and inspection of specialized systems.
• Engineer process solutions and reliability improvement from concept to network implementation.
• Monitor Industrial networks such as Ethernet, ControlNet, DeviceNet, Profibus, AS-I, motor control systems, servo drives, frequency drives, and electrical distribution systems.
• Monitor material handling equipment metrics and partner with site team to resolve equipment electrical problems that create performance deficiencies.
• Proactively and effectively communicate with multiple stakeholders including leadership, operations and the maintenance team on technical issues and project timelines and production impacts.
• Facilitate analysis and reviews of failures and processes to provide recommendations to implement improvements or retraining to avoid future incidents.
• Perform controls of systems assessments to maintain and improve equipment reliability.
• Clearly communicate technical issues, project timelines, and product impacts with site leadership, operations and the maintenance teams.
• Cultivate positive working relationships with our Client and the Operations Maintenance team members.
• Perform other job-related duties as needed or assigned.

Job description

CBRE Group, Inc. in CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) seeks an Automation Engineer to join our controls and maintenance team, supporting automated material handling equipment for a major online retailer. You will work with PLC/PC controllers and SCADA-related systems to improve reliability and performance.

This role emphasizes safety, proactive troubleshooting, and collaboration with site operations, maintenance, and external contractors to deliver timely, high-quality solutions.