Senior Controls Engineer - CNC & Motion

Randstad USA; Middle River (MD); Presencial; USD 115.000 - 140.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Medical benefits

401K plan

Short-term disability

Resumo da vaga

Randstad USA is seeking a dedicated Controls Engineer to act as the site's technical authority for advanced industrial control systems and multi-axis CNC machinery at our Middle River facility. You will own the site controls architecture, guide automation integrators during capital purchases, and troubleshoot production lines under rate and downtime pressure.

The role requires hands-on experience with Siemens Sinumerik or FANUC platforms, PLC-CNC integration, and establishing plant-wide

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Controls Engineering, or related technical field; plus minimum 5 years of hands-on industrial controls experience.
• Experience with multi-axis interpolated trajectory motion (5-axis CNCs, large gantries) and with PLC-CNC interfacing.
• Experience defining FAT/SAT acceptance criteria and managing vendor punch lists for automated equipment.

Responsabilidades

• Write and optimize PLC state logic that handshakes with CNC controllers (AUTO/MDI/JOG), M/S/T code decoding, feed hold interlocks, and axis enable/inhibit logic.
• Develop, debug, and support control code in Siemens TIA Portal / Sinumerik (840D sl / ONE) or FANUC PMC Ladder III.
• Establish plant-wide standards for controls architecture, safety philosophies (ISO 13849 / IEC 62061), tagging/naming conventions, and version control.
• Lead machine acquisitions; author SOWs and URS, review vendor schematics/logic, and run FAT/SAT.
• Serve as the final escalation point for downtime incidents, tracing faults across electrical, controls, and mechanical domains.
• Integrate multi-axis robotic cells (FANUC, ABB, KUKA) with CNCs, robot-to-CNC handshakes, and OT networks (Profinet, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, OPC-UA).

Conhecimentos

Controls engineering

Industrial automation

CNC programming

Siemens Sinumerik

FANUC

PLCs

Downtime troubleshooting

Multi-axis motion control

Formação

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Controls Engineering, or related technical field

5+ years hands-on industrial controls experience

Ferramentas

TIA Portal

Sinumerik 840D sl

FANUC PMC Ladder III

Descrição da vaga

Job Summary

Great client is seeking their first dedicated Controls Engineer to act as the site's technical authority for advanced industrial control systems and multi-axis CNC machinery.

This is a true hybrid engineering role: you will own site-level controls architecture, direct external automation integrators during capital machine purchases, and get hands-on in the plant troubleshooting production lines under active rate and downtime pressure. Seeking candidates with direct technical depth in CNC machine tool programming, interpolated motion trajectory, and the internal handshakes between PLCs and CNC kernels (specifically Siemens Sinumerik and/or FANUC).

Location & Details

location: Middle River, Maryland

job type: Permanent

salary: $115,000 - 140,000 per year

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

Responsibilities

• Write and optimize PLC state logic that handshakes directly with CNC controllers-managing Mode Groups (AUTO, MDI, JOG), M/S/T code decoding, feed hold interlocks, channel overrides, and axis enable/inhibit logic.
• Develop, debug, and support control code natively in Siemens TIA Portal / Sinumerik (840D sl / ONE) or FANUC PMC Ladder III (G&F interface signals).
• Establish plant-wide standards for controls architecture, machine safety philosophies (ISO 13849 / IEC 62061), platform priorities, tagging/naming conventions, and version control.
• Act as the technical lead for machine acquisitions. Author controls Statements of Work (SOWs) and User Requirements Specifications (URS), review vendor schematics/logic, and run Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) and Site Acceptance Tests (SAT).
• Act as the final technical escalation point when critical machinery goes down, rapidly isolating root causes across PLC logic, NC parameters, electrical prints, sensors, and mechanical hardware simultaneously.
• Integrate multi-axis robotic cells (FANUC, ABB, KUKA), coordinated robot-to-CNC handshakes, vision guidance, and industrial OT networks (Profinet, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, OPC-UA).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Controls Engineering, or related technical field, plus a minimum of 5 years of hands-on industrial controls experience (or an equivalent combination of education and direct shop-floor controls experience).
• Demonstrated experience with multi-axis interpolated trajectory motion (5-axis CNCs, large overhead gantries, or contouring machinery), not just point-to-point positioning.
• Hands-on experience developing or modifying the PLC logic that directly communicates with a CNC controller's internal states on at least one of their primary platforms.
• Direct involvement in defining acceptance criteria, conducting FAT/SAT sign-offs, and managing vendor punch lists for automated equipment.
• Demonstrated track record supporting active production machinery under downtime pressure-tracing faults across electrical, controls, and mechanical hardware simultaneously.

Skills

industrial control systems,architecture,automation,CNC machinery,CNC machine,FANUC,production lines,PLCs,Siemens Sinumerik,technical depth

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• medical
• prescription
• dental
• vision
• AD&D
• life insurance offerings
• short-term disability
• a 401K plan

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.