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Every day, you help turn ideas into impact using science, technology, and creativity to tackle real-world challenges. You’re part of a company whose work helps improve patient outcomes in healthcare and protects essential consumer goods that people around the world rely on every day.\nAt TekniPlex, you’ll join more than 8,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our divisions, TekniPlex Healthcare and TekniPlex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care.\nHere, your ideas count and your work matters. You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better, all while building a career that makes an impact.\nBecause at TekniPlex, you don’t just deliver products - you help shape what’s next.\nWhat is the role where you will make an impact?\nProcess Automation Controls Engineer III:\nAs the Process Automation Controls Engineer owns the automation, controls, and plant-floor data systems that keep a multi-building manufacturing facility running.\nThis role spans PLC and HMI programming, SCADA and data historian systems, the industrial network, and the servers that support them. The engineer supports daily production, drives reliability and OEE improvements, and leads controls upgrades from design through commissioning. It is a hands-on role for someone who is as comfortable with a laptop plugged into a PLC on the floor as with SQL queries and network switches.\n\nWhat will you do in this technical role?\n\nControls & Equipment\nProgram, troubleshoot, and modify PLCs and HMIs across a mixed-vendor plant, primarily Rockwell/Allen-Bradley, with Siemens, Schneider/Modicon, Omron, AutomationDirect, and Unitronics equipment.\nSupport production equipment including extruders, laminators, presses, winders, and utility systems (HVAC, cooling tower, tank farm); respond to controls-related downtime.\nLead drive upgrades, retrofits, and machine revamps: scope, design, electrical schematics, panel changes, programming, and startup.\nRead, create, and maintain electrical drawings, size power supplies, protection, and components.\nSCADA, Data & Software\nDevelop and maintain Ignition SCADA (Perspective and Vision) for HMI, OEE tracking, recipe management, and machine and utility monitoring.\nMaintain data historian and database systems (PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server), including tag historization, named queries, and audit logging.\nManage OPC and connectivity layers such as Kepware / TOP Server; support legacy FactoryTalk and Wonderware systems during migration.\nSupport production-monitoring platforms (e.g., Shoplogix) and plant display boards; build dashboards and reports for operations and process engineering.\nWrite and maintain scripts (Python/Jython, SQL) for automation, data handling, and reporting.\nInfrastructure & Network\nAdminister the industrial/OT network: managed switches, VLANs, and device IP management, in coordination with corporate IT.\nMaintain control-system servers and virtual machines, backups, software licensing, and Windows / Active Directory accounts for OT systems.\nSupport plant security systems such as badge access and camera systems (UniFi).\nContinuous Improvement & Documentation\nIdentify and implement automation projects that improve uptime, quality, safety, and OEE.\nKeep programs, network drawings, IP lists, credentials, and system documentation current and backed up.\nWork closely with maintenance, process engineering, production, and IT; train technicians and operators on new systems.\nFollow and promote plant safety practices, including LOTO, arc-flash, and machine guarding requirements.\n\nWhat skills do you bring to the role?\nFive or more years of controls related experience\nStrong PLC programming and troubleshooting skills in Rockwell Studio 5000 / RSLogix (ladder logic required; 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