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Senior Controls Engineer
Job Description
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Direct Hire Senior Controls Engineer opportunity located in Moses Lake, WA.
Job Responsibilities:
- Assist in the design, construction, and commissioning of the control systems for our new state of the art facility in Moses Lake, WA.
- Interface with operations, support reliability efforts, provide hands on controls related technical support, training, and guidance.
- Develop, debug, modify, and maintain PLC, DCS, SIS code and HMI graphics.
- Design, configure, and maintain Data Historians, MES, and SCADA systems.
- Create and maintain procedures and documentation for automated control systems.
- Help develop control system architecture, technical requirements, and component design specification for the facility.
- Provide ongoing support during production for technical issues related to the control systems and equipment.
- Contribute to manufacturing best practices and a facility wide safety philosophy.
Job Qualifications:
- Education: 4-year degree in engineering or related discipline (Electrical, Mechatronics, Mechanical, or Computer Science degree) preferred. 2-year degree or Trade Certification and equivalent experience may be substituted.
- Experience: 5+ years of directly related experience in control systems engineering, industrial engineering, process controls, or automated manufacturing is required.
- Experience with DCS & SIS (Emerson DeltaV or similar), experience with PLC programming (Siemens or similar), experience with instrumentation and PID tuning.
- Communication: exceptional verbal and written ability with the aptitude to communicate professionally with production personnel, management, contractors, and project leadership.
- Methodology: good engineering and good documentation practice.
- Experience (or strong desire to learn) in using collaboration tools (such as SharePoint) for project execution.
- Willingness and ability to take on challenging projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with instrumentation and PID tuning: flow, level, temperature.
- SCADA/HMI application development, Data Historians, MES.
- PLC/DCS/SIS programming, debugging, troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of industrial networks, virtual machines, thin clients, cybersecurity.
- Experience with VFDs, robotics, machine vision, barcode scanners.
- Startup and commissioning experience, preferably in chemical processing.
Job Details:
- Direct Hire
- Location: Moses Lake, WA
- Salary Range: $120-140k
- ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.
About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.
Meet Your Recruiter
Abby Hubbard
I joined Protingent in the Spring of 2021 as a sales intern, transitioning to a full-time Technical Recruiter after graduating from the University of Washington in June 2021. Initially, I focused on supporting our spaceflight clients, later expanding to industries such as sustainable energy and nuclear power. While I’ve broadened my recruiting scope, I’m still partial to aerospace engineering, especially anything related to propulsion technology.
My recruiting style focuses on individual candidate needs and relationship building. My philosophy is to lead with empathy and integrity. My favorite thing about recruiting is the opportunity to learn something new every day by talking to the most intelligent people/engineers, as well as the potential to impact critical industries at the staffing level.
When I’m not recruiting, I love spending time outdoors – hiking, camping, roller skating, reading in parks, and swimming in Lake Union (when the Seattle weather permits). I also enjoy thrift shops, sewing/up-cycling clothes, and shooting 35mm film.