Controls Operations Engineer
USA
Permanent
$85,000 USD
TXM are partnered with KNAPP, a leading automation and intralogistics provider, as they look to add experienced Control Systems Engineers (PLC) to the business across the US. As a Controls Operations Engineer, you will be using your skillset to ensure that fast-paced distribution facilities within KNAPP’s customer network are always running at full capacity, carrying out preventative and reactive work on state-of-the-art storage & retrieval, sortation and conveyance technology.
Successful applicants receive visa and relocation support throughout the process, with guidance from an experienced legal team.
Benefits:
- Visa sponsorship support
- Relocation assistance
- Industry competitive compensation
- Great benefits with competitive employer contributions, including health, dental, vision, life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Short & Long-Term Disability and more!
- 401k with employer match and no vesting!
- Paid Vacation & Holidays
- Profit Sharing
- Paid Parental Leave
- Subsidized child-care
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Pet Insurance
- Corporate Social Responsibility including recycling, sustainability, and volunteering
Your Responsibilities:
- Flexibility to work 12.5-hour shifts, either during the day or night, depending on site requirements (typically 7 PM – 7:30 AM), following a 2-2-3 'Panama' rotation pattern. Please note that shift arrangements may be adjusted in line with customer or site operational needs.
- Circa 70% travel to customer locations within the US.
- Diagnose faults across PLC logic, HMIs, sensors, VFDs and industrial networks such as Profinet.
- Coordinate with onsite maintenance teams and controls resources to support problem resolution.
- Providing exceptional maintenance support to the on-site customer’s installed systems.
- Maintain accurate tickets and technical documentation to support best practise and continuous improvement.
Your Experience:
- Degree educated from a relevant field – Automation/Mechatronics/Electrical Engineering.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience writing code, testing, troubleshooting, maintaining and commissioning PLCs.
- Knowledge of warehouse automation such as conveyors, storage & retrieval systems, sortation equipment and small robotics.
- Experience working within a high pressurized maintenance environment.
- Experience carrying out Root Cause Analysis using a known methodology.
- Must possess strong English language skills, with the ability to communicate effectively when speaking, reading, and writing.
- Eligibility to work in the USA.
Our customer is an equal opportunity employer. Who are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires and respects all individuals without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other basis protected by law.
Due to the safety-sensitive nature of this position, strict adherence to our customers drug-free workplace policy is required. All candidates will be subject to drug-screening in accordance with the policy, and will be expected to remain drug-free during their employment. There will be no exception if recreational or medical use of marijuana is permitted in the location of employment and/or residence or if use of marijuana is only during “off-hours.”
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Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person
