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Associate Controls Engineer

Dana Incorporated
Columbia, MO Full Time
POSTED ON 6/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/5/2026
Job Duties And Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following. Other duties may be assigned as necessary.

  • Provide day-to-day support for all division PLC’s and their related hardware, software and equipment.
  • Respond to the needs of users concerning the use of the equipment, troubleshooting, problem solving and training.
  • Implement standard engineering practices as well as provide detailed documentation upon project completion.
  • Recommend architect and develop PLC solutions to meet the needs of the business as it relates to manufacturing operations.
  • Design and engineering of programmable logic controls (PLC’s) and modifications for a wide variety of manufacturing production equipment and maintain schematics.
  • SCADA system and HMI controls development
  • Represent and/or Support Engineering team during the R&D phase of new machines and concepts
  • Direct electrical assembly activities such as panel fabrication and component wiring
  • Specifying and correctly applying a variety of robotic multi-axis motion control platforms
  • Machine vision
  • Systems integration of 3rd party equipment and peripherals
  • Technical writing

Education And Qualifications

  • BSEE from an accredited university or college (or equivalent training and experience) and a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience utilizing the skills listed above
  • 1 to 3 years of experience working as a PLC technician or engineer designing PLC’s and modifications
  • Must possess experience in network systems and terminal server.
  • Computer and controls programming experience in relevant programming languages including
  • Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLC
  • Rockwell Software SQL
  • Microsoft SQL Database programming
  • Human-Machine Interface (HMI) software
  • Visual Basic,
  • Experience working on Electric Motor Starters, Motion Controllers, Drives, Disconnects and Switch Gears

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