Senior Controls & Electrical Engineer – Industrial Automation

Sila; Moses Lake (WA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonuses

Total Rewards

Job summary

Sila, a next-generation battery materials company in Moses Lake, WA, seeks a Controls Engineer to maintain and deploy machine control code and instrumentation for production units. You will work with scientists and technicians, implementing IEC 61131-3 languages and integrating with SCADA/MES/ERP systems.

On-site role offering competitive base pay, a Total Rewards package with benefits, equity, and bonuses, and opportunities to influence cutting-edge chemical manufacturing equipment.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years experience in controls engineering or related field.
• Experience deploying code on systems that interact with the physical world.
• Ability to write Structured Text and familiarity with IEC 61131-3 languages; Siemens environment preferred.
• Strong understanding of field-deployed electronics, sensors, and motion components.
• Knowledge of industrial electrical design, including wiring diagrams, network architecture, control panels, and NFPA 70E safety requirements.
• Hazardous Area Knowledge, including Class I/II and Div 1 & 2 requirements and intrinsically safe wiring.
• Experience integrating machines with SCADA, MES, ERP, Ignition, etc.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, improve and deploy new machine control code, instrumentation, and electrical subsystems for production units.
• Collaborate with other teams to design and improve electrical power and communication systems for the production units across the entire facility.
• Contribute to and improve internally-developed software libraries used across the company, from research to production-scale units.
• Gather feedback from end-users of your work and distill into actionable modifications. Iterate.
• Support 24 hour operation in a running chemical plant.

Skills

Structured Text

IEC 61131-3

EtherCAT/Profinet/Modbus

Industrial electrical design

SCADA/MES/ERP integration

Education

B.S. in Engineering

Tools

Siemens environment

SCADA systems

Ignition

ERP integration

Job description

Sila, a next-generation battery materials company in Moses Lake, WA, seeks a Controls Engineer to maintain and deploy machine control code and instrumentation for production units. You will work with scientists and technicians, implementing IEC 61131-3 languages and integrating with SCADA/MES/ERP systems.

On-site role offering competitive base pay, a Total Rewards package with benefits, equity, and bonuses, and opportunities to influence cutting-edge chemical manufacturing equipment.