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The role partners daily with Engineering, Maintenance, Production, HSE, Quality, Information Technology, corporate digital resources, vendors, and contractors to safely troubleshoot chronic failures; design and execute upgrades; establish and support secure, maintainable OT network infrastructure; implement and sustain the plant SCADA platform; improve equipment availability; and ensure electrical, controls, and OT systems are documented, recoverable, and aligned with company standards. The position combines hands-on field support with disciplined engineering analysis, network and control-system architecture, project execution, commissioning, cybersecurity coordination, and technical stewardship of production assets and facility systems.\nMAJOR DUITIES AND RESPONSIBILITES \nElectrical, Controls, and Automation Engineering\nDesign, specify, modify, and support industrial electrical and control systems, including power distribution, motor-control equipment, PLCs, HMIs, variable-frequency and DC drives, instrumentation, sensors, industrial networks, and machine-safety interfaces.\n\nDevelop control narratives, functional requirements, I/O lists, panel layouts, schematics, network architecture, bills of material, and installation work packages.\n\nProgram, configure, troubleshoot, and improve Allen-Bradley, Mitsubishi, and Siemens PLC/HMI platforms and associated drive systems. Support legacy systems while developing migration and obsolescence plans.\n\nPerform disciplined diagnostics using drawings, PLC logic, trend data, drive fault history, network diagnostics, and field measurements while preserving rollback capability.\n\nMaintain validated backups of PLC, HMI, drive, SCADA, server, and network-device configurations and control access and changes.\n\nOT Network Infrastructure and SCADA\nServe as the plant engineering lead and long-term technical owner for OT infrastructure supporting the SCADA system, while coordinating governance, security, remote access, server, identity, and enterprise connectivity requirements with Information Technology and designated corporate resources.\n\nDevelop and maintain logical and physical OT network architecture, managed industrial switches, fiber and copper backbone requirements, network cabinets, UPS needs, addressing conventions, VLAN and segmentation requirements, and resilient communications paths.\n\nLead or support design, configuration, testing, commissioning, and expansion of the Ignition SCADA platform, including gateways and clients, PLC connectivity, tags, alarms, trends, dashboards, historian functions, time synchronization, and approved system interfaces.\n\nEstablish and maintain an OT asset inventory and device/IP register covering PLCs, HMIs, drives, instruments, switches, gateways, servers, workstations, and other connected production assets.\n\nConfigure and troubleshoot industrial communications, including Ethernet/IP and other plant protocols, and isolate addressing, port, cabling, switch, bandwidth, duplicate-device, time-synchronization, and communications faults.\n\nCoordinate IT/OT boundary requirements, including approved architecture, segmentation, firewall rules, secure vendor access, accounts, patch and firmware planning, endpoint protection, logging, monitoring, and incident response.\n\nDevelop backup, restore, disaster-recovery, and configuration-management practices for SCADA and OT assets and periodically verify recoverability.\n\nPlan cutovers and migrations with documented prerequisites, tests, communications, rollback points, production contingencies, post-startup monitoring, and turnover documentation.\n\nDevelop OT and SCADA standards for naming, addressing, switch configuration, network drawings, cabinet design, remote connectivity, alarms, historian tags, programming changes, and future expansion.\n\nPartner with cybersecurity and IT resources to assess vulnerabilities and operational risk without compromising process safety, availability, vendor support, or validated functionality.\n\nReliability and Maintenance Support\nPartner with electricians, mechanics, planners, and production personnel to troubleshoot breakdowns, analyze failures, and restore equipment safely and efficiently.\n\nLead or support root-cause investigations for recurring electrical, controls, communications, network, and process-equipment failures and verify corrective-action effectiveness.\n\nImprove preventive and predictive maintenance tasks for electrical assets, controls hardware, motors, drives, panels, field devices, SCADA components, servers, and network infrastructure.\n\nReview CMMS history, downtime data, alarms, work orders, historian trends, network events, and spare-parts usage to identify reliability opportunities.\n\nDevelop critical-spare recommendations and lifecycle plans for obsolete or unsupported electrical, controls, SCADA, and OT equipment.\n\nProvide technical escalation support during significant equipment events and support planned shutdown, weekend, or on-call needs.\n\nProjects, Installation, and Commissioning\nDevelop project scopes, alternatives, estimates, schedules, risk assessments, and technical justifications for capital and expense projects.\n\nLead or support upgrades from concept through startup, including design reviews, procurement, acceptance testing, commissioning, punch-list closure, and turnover.\n\nCoordinate multidisciplinary work involving mechanical systems, process requirements, electrical installation, controls integration, OT networking, SCADA, utilities, cybersecurity, and production constraints.\n\nEnsure projects include guarding, interlocks, alarms, maintainability, safe access, energy isolation, network and cybersecurity requirements, and required documentation.\n\nMonitor project cost and schedule and review technical quotations, purchase requisitions, change orders, invoices, and contractor deliverables.\n\nPlan cutovers and startups with prerequisites, contingencies, backups, rollback points, communications, and post-startup monitoring.\n\nSafety, Risk, and Compliance\nIntegrate safety through hazard review, risk assessment, management of change, pre-startup review, safe-work planning, and safeguard verification.\n\nFollow and reinforce lockout/tagout, electrical safe-work practices, arc-flash requirements, energized-work restrictions, PPE requirements, and machine-startup procedures.\n\nImmediately escalate conditions affecting safety functions, interlocks, protective devices, environmental controls, process control, SCADA visibility, or OT security. Do not leave undocumented bypasses, temporary addressing, unmanaged switches, or temporary network equipment in service.\n\nSupport incident investigations, cause mapping, corrective actions, audits, cybersecurity response activities, and closure of findings.\n\nEnsure contractor and integrator work is properly scoped, authorized, coordinated, monitored, documented, and completed to site standards.\n\nDocumentation, Standards, and Team Capability\nCreate and maintain electrical drawings, loop diagrams, OT physical and logical network drawings, device/IP registers, asset inventories, revision records, equipment files, and as-built documentation.\n\nApply document control so field systems, drawings, code, configurations, network records, and backup repositories remain aligned.\n\nDevelop troubleshooting guides, procedures, standards, job plans, recovery instructions, and training materials.\n\nCoach technicians in systematic troubleshooting, PLC/HMI navigation, drive diagnostics, electrical drawings, SCADA navigation, basic industrial-network diagnostics, controls documentation, and safe work practices.\n\nCommunicate technical and cybersecurity risks, options, recommendations, and project status clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.\n\nParticipate in reliability, capital-planning, manufacturing-systems, SCADA, and OT roadmap activities.\n\nOther duties as assigned by department manager\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\nTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required to perform successfully in this position. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.\nEducation:\nBachelor of Sciencein Electrical Engineering\n\nKnowledge:\nElectrical Engineering Degree (BS minimum)\n\nProficient with Programing Allen Bradley Control Logix PLC’s\n\nProficient with Programing Allen Bradley HMI’s (PanelviewPlus, Studio)\n\nExperience with Parker and AB AC drives\n\nExperience running improvement projects\n\nProficient inAutoCad\n\nExcellent communication and mathematical skills\n\nAbility to use common hand and power tools\n\nExperience Trouble Shooting manufacturing equipment\n\nEducation:\nBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Controls Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a closely related field from an accredited institution.\n\nExperience:\nFiveor more years of progressively responsible electrical, controls, automation, OT, SCADA, or plant-engineering experience in manufacturing or a comparable industrial environment.\n\nDemonstrated experience troubleshooting industrial electrical and controls systems and supporting equipment installation, modification, and commissioning.\n\nDemonstrated hands-on experience supporting industrial Ethernet networks, managed switches, connected PLC/HMI systems, and SCADA infrastructure in an operating manufacturing environment.\n\nExperience leading complex technical projects, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, and providing technical direction to technicians, contractors, or system integrators.\n\nKnowledge:\nIndustrial electrical fundamentals, power distribution, motors, motor controls, instrumentation, control panels, and electrical schematics.\n\nPLC programming and troubleshooting, with strong proficiency in Allen-Bradley ControlLogix, CompactLogix, MicroLogix, Studio 5000/RSLogix, and PanelView/FactoryTalk or RSView environments.\n\nWorking knowledge of Mitsubishi and Siemens PLC platforms and industrial drive 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