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Walker Lovell lists this Controls Engineer opportunity in north las vegas, Nevada. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Controls Engineer
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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. xhqgsiq
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Worksite address
north las vegas, NV, 89031, US
Who can apply
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