Our client is a global food/drink company that is known as a category leading brand, this business is currently recruiting for a Senior Controls Engineer to join their corporate engineering team. Over the past 5 years this company has continued to grow at a staggering rate both domestically and internationally due to a number of mergers/acquisitions along with investment in their manufacturing sites to make sure they have the best in the industry.

You will provide leadership and direction to continuously improve the effectiveness of the Industrial IT network and Materials / Tool (IE: PLCs’, HMI, Industrials PC’s, servers, software’s, Data acquisition & recording tools, …) and related operation throughout the different USA’s operations. As a Senior Controls Engineer, you will maintain full responsibility of the design, engineering, and execution of advanced analytics and automation technology projects.

This company has a strong track record of promoting from within and has a brilliant culture.

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Provide expertise to the different manufacturing sites to achieve operational results.
• Audit the Industrial IT installations, report any deficiencies or obsolescence and propose action plans to correct.
• Develop and lead the Long-Term Plans for the company and setting priorities of investment.
• Review all plant floor documentation that is being filled manually and propose / implement automated solution to reduce labour cost and improve accuracy of reports.
• Review with the plants all process & packaging KPI’s, study solutions to have them seen real time with the employees in plant floors, offices, break room, …and propose / implement solutions
• Conduct and maintain the Industrial IT Risk Assessment of all USA plants.
• Provide training as necessary within the organization.

The Ideal candidate would have/be:

• 7+ years of Project Management or Project Engineering experience in instrumentation, process controls, SCADA systems, cybersecurity, metering systems, and/or data monitoring tools.
• Food manufacturing plant operation.
• Experience with Rockwell, automated reporting tools, KPI’s automated panels/displays.