Senior Controls & Electrical Engineer

The role

You will develop industrial automation solutions for research, engineering, and scaled commercial deployments. This includes designing, deploying, and commissioning automation projects and leading controls engineering projects.

What you will do

• Own the design, deployment, and commissioning of automation projects from lab-scale to large-scale commercial deployments
• Drive and execute controls projects including PLC and HMI/SCADA programming, vendor interfacing, and electrical design
• Guide decision-making around discrete and continuous process automation systems at scale
• Develop standards and specifications for controls equipment
• Work with the mechanical team to develop controls and guide instrumentation and component selection
• Interface with the software team to develop and maintain the data collection and management layer
• Collaborate with IT on industrial networking strategies and architecture design
• Work with panel shop technicians, production managers, operators, and engineering leads
• Produce engineering deliverables such as electrical schematics, code documentation, loop diagrams, and panel layouts
• Use, maintain, and contribute to a PLC/HMI controls library

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing and deploying industrial automation systems
• Strong background in PLC programming, especially in developing applications from scratch
• Experience with distributed HMI/SCADA applications, including graphical design, data collection, alarm management, and server infrastructure
• Experience with controls electrical engineering, including UL 508A control panel design and fabrication, field wiring, NEC/NFPA 70E, and NFPA 79
• Experience producing electrical drawings for controls projects with electrical CAD programs
• Strong background in safety-related controls systems engineering, including designing and validating safety controls to IEC 62061, IEC 61511, and/or ISO 13849-1
• Proven track record of working cross-functionally to balance competing requirements and constraints
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and follow-through

Nice to have

• Allen-Bradley and/or Beckhoff experience
• Experience with Ignition, especially Perspective
• AutoCAD, AutoCAD Electrical, and/or SkyCAD
• Experience developing and deploying custom library code
• Experience with high temperature (>500°C) continuous process equipment
• Experience with custom machine motion and vision applications
• Experience creating data collection interfaces with higher-level software via SQL and/or MQTT
• Comfort operating both in fast-paced R&D/commissioning and highly-detailed project and architectural design environments
• Experience using Git-based version control for industrial controls code

Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by Heirloom
• FSA option
• 16 weeks paid parental leave for all Heirloom employees
• Generous stock options
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees
• 120 hours PTO for full time non-exempt employees
• 401(k)
• Monthly health and wellness reimbursement
• Annual education and conference budget

About the company

Heirloom is a team of engineers and scientists working to fight climate change. They aim to build a more equitable and prosperous future by mitigating the effects of climate change.