Senior Controls Engineer

Actus Nutrition (Milk Specialties Company) has an opening based out of its facilities in Norfolk, Nebraska for the position of Senior Controls Engineer. Advise on, recommend, and engage in the selection of plant equipment and related control needs for digital and analog I/O, cabinet and system design requirements. Oversee external control vendors. Lead design, coding, testing, and debugging of programs and modify existing programming to keep plant processes running effectively. Drive standards to ensure reliability of control systems. Oversee the control network communications to minimize network performance problems or security related risks. Provide support to address critical plant control system issues. Oversee project production efforts to assure projects are completed on time and within budget. Inspect completed installations and observe operations to ensure conformance to design and equipment specifications. Collect data in relation to control system to determine operating efficiencies. Full Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree (or foreign equivalent degree) in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related specialty technical field and five years of progressive, post-bachelor’s experience in controls engineering in a processing plant. Experience must explicitly include work with (1) Allen Bradley PLCs, related components, and Logix programming; (2) various HMI developments (Factory Talk ME, Factory Talk View and/or Aveva InTouch) and all related systems (tag/data servers and historians); (3) Rockwell and related US automation technologies; and (4) control system design and troubleshooting methodologies. Position may require travel up to 50% of the time – for 2-3 days per visit – to various company sites across the United States.