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You’ll translate customer and engineering requirements into reliable PLC, HMI, instrumentation, industrial network, and machine-control systems, taking projects from design and documentation through testing, deployment, and field support.\nThis role offers the opportunity to see your engineering work in action-solving complex equipment challenges, improving safety and reliability, and helping rig teams operate more efficiently. Working independently and alongside project teams, you’ll deepen your technical expertise across the full automation lifecycle and deliver practical solutions that balance performance, quality, and cost.\n Controls Software & Machine Automation Development\nPrimary Skills: Process Automation\nSoftware Design\nProgrammable Logic Controller Programming\nHuman-Machine Interface Design\nDesign and develop controls software for drilling applications from approved requirements and specifications.\nDevelop machine-control algorithms for PLC-based systems, including sequencing and control of induction motors, AC drives, motor control centers, hydraulic and pneumatic functions, and valve controls.\nDesign and implement HMI applications, instrumentation and sensor interfaces, data logging, and communication interfaces with industrial controllers.\nApply Rockwell or Siemens controls platforms and related development tools appropriate to the assigned application.\nSystem Design, Requirements & Technical Documentation\nPrimary Skills: Requirements Management\nSystem Architecture\nDesign Documentation\nEngineering Specifications\nInterpret client and internal requirements, identify relevant design parameters and engineering constraints, and develop controls-system solutions using sound engineering principles.\nProduce and maintain design documentation, PLC code, HMI applications, bills of material, network architectures, one-line drawings, and operations manuals.\nReview electrical schematics and system interfaces to confirm that software, controls hardware, instrumentation, communications, and equipment functions are aligned.\nDocument design decisions, test results, configuration information, and implementation requirements to support manufacturing, commissioning, service, and future maintenance.\nEquipment Commissioning, Prototyping & Validation\nPrimary Skills: Commissioning Processes\nTechnical Prototyping\nSystem Testing Framework\nEquipment Validation\nCommission new equipment and drilling-rig control systems in yard or field environments, including deployment, functional testing, issue resolution, and completion of required documentation.\nBuild or support design prototypes and perform field implementation and testing to verify intended operation.\nValidate controls behavior, HMI functionality, instrumentation, communications, alarms, and equipment interfaces against approved requirements.\nIdentify implementation problems, coordinate corrective actions, and communicate readiness or outstanding risks to the project team.\nSustaining Engineering & Technical Troubleshooting\nPrimary Skills: Technical Support\nEquipment Troubleshooting\nNetwork Engineering\nProblem Solving Techniques\nProvide Level 3 technical support to internal and external customers for current rig applications and controls systems.\nDiagnose and correct reported software, hardware, wiring, PLC, HMI, sensor, and industrial-network issues through remote access, collaboration with technicians, or travel to the rig site.\nTroubleshoot industrial communications and network components, including interfaces using OPC, MODBUS, EtherNet/IP, Profibus, and related protocols.\nDocument findings, corrective actions, and relevant technical information to support reliable operation and future issue resolution.\nProject Execution, Safety & Collaboration\nPrimary Skills: Project Leadership\nProject Management\nWorkplace Safety\nCross-functional Teamwork\nContribute to project success as a project leader or project team member by managing assigned scope, technical deliverables, risks, schedule commitments, and budget considerations.\nCoordinate with customers, engineering disciplines, technicians, manufacturing, and field personnel to implement solutions accurately and resolve technical dependencies.\nMaintain product safety in controls and automation designs and observe applicable safety objectives and legal requirements for completed work.\nCommunicate technical status, design considerations, implementation issues, and recommended actions clearly in individual and group settings.\n Required\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical, Controls, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a closely related engineering discipline.\n3-5 years of progressively responsible controls and automation software development experience, including hands-on Rockwell PLC programming using Logix 5000.\nExperience with PLC programming, HMI design and implementation, instrumentation, sensor interfaces, and data logging.\nWorking knowledge of induction motors, AC drives, motor control centers, hydraulics, pneumatics, and valve controls.\nAbility to read and apply electrical schematics to troubleshoot controls software, hardware, wiring, networks, and system interfaces.\nExperience producing technical documentation, including PLC code records, HMI applications, bills of material, network architectures, one-line drawings, test records, and operations manuals.\nClear technical communication skills; ability to work independently and with customers, engineers, technicians, and field teams; willingness to learn and seek senior engineering guidance when needed.\nAbility to travel approximately 30% domestically and internationally to yards and rigs, and respond to calls and provide support outside regular hours, including evenings and weekends, when needed.\nPreferred\nPrevious experience with controlling heavy rotating equipment using induction motors\nExperience in the drilling industry \nExperience controlling heavy rotating equipment using induction motors.\n\nExperience with drilling equipment, drilling-rig controls, oilfield operations, or other safety-critical industrial equipment.\n\nHands-on experience with Rockwell RSLogix 5000, SLC 500, FactoryTalk, or comparable Siemens PLC and HMI platforms.\n\nExperience with industrial communication protocols, including OPC, MODBUS, EtherNet/IP, Profibus, or comparable protocols.\n\nFamiliarity with Cisco switches or industrial-network configuration and troubleshooting.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6549,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Energy & Utilities","Natural Resources","Industrial Machinery","Oil & Gas"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-03T04:41:40Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":44,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.585,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":26,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:late","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nabors-industries-automation-engineer-ii","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nabors-industries-automation-engineer-ii.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T05:53:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9061,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1046501},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1046501"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnabors-industries-automation-engineer-ii"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnabors-industries-automation-engineer-ii"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnabors-industries-automation-engineer-ii"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nabors-industries-automation-engineer-ii\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnabors-industries-automation-engineer-ii"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1743865}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"nabors.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1743865},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); 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