Plant Controls Lead – 24/7 Automation & Uptime

Leprino Foods; Lubbock (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Healthcare coverage

Dental/Vision coverage

Voluntary benefits

Employee assistance programs

Wellness incentives

Tuition assistance

Vacation

Paid holidays

Sick time

Paid parental leave

Profit-sharing & 401(k)

Job summary

Leprino Foods in Lubbock, TX, seeks a Controls Supervisor to lead plant automation and control systems, ensuring safe, reliable production and continued dairy growth, at a state-of-the-art 600-person facility.

You will oversee a controls team, manage PLC/SCADA/HMI infrastructure, coordinate upgrades, and collaborate with maintenance, engineering, and production to minimize downtime while enforcing safety, change management, and documentation standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industrial controls experience in manufacturing.
• 1+ year of experience leading or directing others.
• Associate degree in controls engineering, industrial tech, electrical, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily controls activities to support safe, reliable production.
• Guide and develop a controls team for PLCs, HMIs, SCADA.
• Support troubleshooting and downtime resolution for controls and utilities.
• Coordinate planned controls upgrades and preventive improvements.
• Maintain knowledge of plant processes to diagnose complex automation issues.
• Partner with maintenance, utilities, engineering, and production teams.
• Reinforce safe work practices, change management, and documentation standards.
• Review work orders and system issues to improve response time and stability.
• Support commissioning, testing, and startup of new or modified systems.

Skills

Industrial controls

Team leadership

PLC/SCADA experience

SAP familiarity

24/7 operations

Education

Associate degree in controls engineering or related technical field

Tools

Allen-Bradley

Rockwell Automation

HMI/SCADA platforms

Industrial networks

Job description

Leprino Foods in Lubbock, TX, seeks a Controls Supervisor to lead plant automation and control systems, ensuring safe, reliable production and continued dairy growth, at a state-of-the-art 600-person facility.

You will oversee a controls team, manage PLC/SCADA/HMI infrastructure, coordinate upgrades, and collaborate with maintenance, engineering, and production to minimize downtime while enforcing safety, change management, and documentation standards.