PLC Programmer

The Sterling Choice; Georgia; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Travel opportunities

Training & leadership development

Job summary

The Sterling Choice seeks an engineer to own PLC control development for major municipal water projects in South Georgia. You’ll manage the full lifecycle from narrative through programming, integration, testing, startup and final commissioning.

Work across Allen-Bradley, Schneider, Siemens and Emerson platforms with travel ~35%. Comprehensive benefits and leadership development are provided as part of a large infrastructure platform.

Qualifications

• Experience with PLCs and PLC programming in industrial automation.
• Familiarity with HMI/SCADA concepts is a plus.
• Ability to work across multiple PLC platforms (AB, Schneider, Siemens, Emerson).

Responsibilities

• Develop PLC monitoring and control applications for water infrastructure projects.
• Integrate equipment with third-party systems and support FAT/SAT.
• Conduct field startup, commissioning, and customer training; troubleshoot with field engineers.

Job description

You’re good with PLCs. You could probably find another maintenance job tomorrow.

But what if you want something bigger than keeping the same production line alive?

This is a chance to join one of North America’s largest and fastest-growing water infrastructure platforms, developing the control systems behind major municipal water and wastewater projects.

You’ll be involved from the original control narrative through to programming, integration, testing, startup and final commissioning.

The work includes:

• Developing PLC monitoring and control applications
• Integrating equipment with third-party systems
• Supporting FAT and SAT
• Completing field startup and commissioning
• Demonstrating systems and training customer teams
• Troubleshooting alongside experienced project and field engineers

The team works across Allen-Bradley, Schneider, Siemens and Emerson platforms.

Water or wastewater experience would give you an advantage, but it isn’t essential. Strong PLC programmers from industrial automation, systems integration, utilities or process manufacturing can learn the application.

What can this business do for you?

You can remain deeply technical, broaden into HMI and SCADA, progress into technical leadership or eventually move towards project management, estimating, customer solutions or commercial work.

This is a large, well-funded infrastructure platform with more than $2.5 billion in annual revenue and genuine investment behind its next stage of growth. That creates considerably more career headroom than most smaller integrators can offer.

The package:

• Travel typically around 35% or less
• All business mileage reimbursed
• Comprehensive benefits and wellness package
• Training, mentoring and leadership development
• Tuition reimbursement and certification incentives
• Long-term career options across multiple disciplines

The position is aimed at engineers based in South Georgia, including the Albany, Valdosta, Tifton, Thomasville, Moultrie, Douglas and surrounding areas.

If you’re a PLC or HMI engineer wondering what the next few years could look like—not simply the next job—let’s have an informal conversation.