What are the responsibilities and job description for the Controls Engineer position at Walker Lovell?
Controls Engineer
Location: North Las Vegas, Nevada
Employment: Full-time
Travel: Less than 10%
Compensation: Strong base salary plus 10% target bonus.
Take Ownership of the Systems That Keep Production Running
Put your controls expertise to work across PLC programming, HMI/SCADA systems and plant instrumentation. This hands-on technical role offers the independence to solve complex problems and deliver improvements to production reliability, safety and efficiency.
Package & Benefits
- Salary package reflecting your technical expertise.
- Relocation considered for suitable candidates.
- Opportunities to develop towards technical specialist and regional engineering roles.
Why This Business
Our client is an established industrial minerals producer serving manufacturing, construction and environmental markets. You’ll join a wider automation team supporting operating production plants, working with both legacy equipment and modern control technologies.
What you’ll be doing
- Write, modify and troubleshoot PLC programmes, including ladder logic, function blocks and structured text, to improve equipment performance.
- Develop and maintain HMI/SCADA systems, diagnose instrumentation faults and resolve process control issues alongside production and maintenance teams.
- Support industrial networks, drive systems, equipment commissioning and controls upgrades, primarily at Apex with occasional support for other sites.
- Improve industrial data acquisition, historian systems and reporting to give plant teams clearer insight into production performance.
The expertise you’ll need
- A bachelor’s degree in automation or a related engineering discipline, with a strong industrial automation background.
- Around five years’ relevant controls or process automation experience; slightly fewer years considered where experience closely matches the role.
- Hands-on PLC programming and HMI/SCADA experience. Rockwell/Allen-Bradley, PlantPAx, FactoryTalk View SE and Wonderware InTouch or Historian experience is particularly relevant.
- Practical fault-finding skills across plant controls, instrumentation and industrial networks, with the ability to work independently and communicate clearly with operators and maintenance teams.
The role is fully on-site in an industrial plant environment, with occasional after-hours and weekend support.
Apply now for a confidential conversation with Walker Lovell.