Senior Controls Engineer: Global Automation Leader

Wabtec Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 91,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Annual bonus

Job summary

Wabtec Corporation seeks an experienced Industrial Controls Leader to drive architecture, programming, integration, and optimization of plant controls across our global manufacturing network.

You will partner with operations, product engineering, maintenance and IT to deliver safe, scalable, and production-ready automation solutions, mentor site teams, and guide capital projects from concept to launch.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Controls, Automation, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• 7+ years of industrial controls, automation, systems integration, or advanced manufacturing experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of significant controls and capital automation projects.
• Advanced PLC and HMI programming with structured software development practices.
• Strong understanding of machine safety, motion control, robotics integration, industrial networking, instrumentation, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience developing controls architectures, functional specifications, standards, test plans, and commissioning documentation.
• Project leadership, technical mentoring, structured troubleshooting, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to travel as required to support enterprise manufacturing sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead controls projects from concept and architecture through production launch.
• Develop controls architectures, functional specifications, programming standards, and preferred solutions.
• Program, review, and troubleshoot PLC, HMI, motion, safety, and industrial communication applications.
• Lead controls design reviews and verify compliance with technical, safety, maintainability, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Develop capital estimates, controls scopes, test plans, and technical requirements for RFQs.
• Lead/support vendor selection, panel and software reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup.
• Diagnose complex controls, network, motion, robotics interface, and manufacturing data issues.
• Optimize existing systems for reliability, cycle time, diagnostics, maintainability, and production performance.
• Identify and replicate successful controls solutions across manufacturing sites.
• Support Automation & Advanced Manufacturing roadmap, governance, and technology strategy.
• Evaluate emerging controls, connectivity, simulation, and AI‑enabled manufacturing technologies.
• Mentor site controls resources and provide senior technical leadership during project execution and issue resolution.

Skills

PLC & HMI programming

Industrial controls

Safety & compliance

Team leadership

Travel flexibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Controls, Automation, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Rockwell Automation ControlLogix/CompactLogix

Siemens S7 / TIA Portal

EtherNet/IP

PROFINET

OPC UA

Job description

Wabtec Corporation seeks an experienced Industrial Controls Leader to drive architecture, programming, integration, and optimization of plant controls across our global manufacturing network.

You will partner with operations, product engineering, maintenance and IT to deliver safe, scalable, and production-ready automation solutions, mentor site teams, and guide capital projects from concept to launch.