Controls Engineer III

Controls Engineer III

Location: Baltimore, Maryland | Type: Full-Time | Clearance: None required | Travel: 25%

About the Company

The company specializes in building intelligence. It designs, builds, operates, and maintains cyber-physical solutions for mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. Its work covers electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. It delivers secure, resilient, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.

The company's people care about engineering innovation that improves lives and creates meaningful change. Its core values are agility, expertise, and trust, and it supports a collaborative, forward-thinking work environment. It is committed to developing the next generation of technical leaders in the electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.

Role Overview

The Controls Engineer will design, develop, install, and maintain equipment that monitors and controls systems, machinery, and processes. Applications include industrial controls, cybersecurity, building automation, water/wastewater, power controls and protection, energy management, and transportation systems. The engineer will be a technical expert in advanced process control, instrumentation, distributed control systems, PLCs, and SCADA, and will use these skills to solve customers' most complex challenges.

Key Responsibilities

Design / Engineering

• Creates design documents for small projects and supports larger programs, including:
  • Narrative design documents
  • Requirements analysis
  • Subsystem designs (CAD, panels, layouts, wiring, SCADA screens, hardware, communications)
  • Specifications
  • QA/QC and technical reviews of designs
  • Procedures and fixtures for integrated systems factory testing, plus internal and external comment resolution

Programming

• Leads programming and configuration teams on complex automation and SCADA applications
• Programs, configures, and troubleshoots PLCs, RTUs, and HMI systems using protocols such as DNP3, Modbus, SEL Fast Messaging, or Mirrored Bits

Testing / Troubleshooting / Deployment / Commissioning

• Writes testing and commissioning procedures and test reports
• Commissions deployed systems
• Develops test fixtures and simulation devices
• Performs factory and field testing

Maintenance

• Troubleshoots service calls for operators of existing and legacy systems
• Performs hardware and software upgrades and replacements on existing systems

Managerial Responsibilities

Estimates

• Carries out client site surveys, inspections, and tours as needed
• Prepares cost estimates and supporting documents for small projects
• Helps senior engineers prepare bid and proposal cost estimates and supporting documents
• Evaluates and prices change orders

Personnel Management

• Assigns technical tasks to entry-level engineers and coordinates their work
• Assigns tasks to technical staff and coordinates their work

Field Experience

• Reading electrical and control schematics and plans
• Starting up, configuring, and calibrating control systems
• Testing and troubleshooting control systems
• Using basic electrical and machinist hand tools
• Using testing, calibration, and industry-specific tools and software
• Computer networks
• CAD/CAE software (AutoCAD, EPLAN)
• Standard office software (Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.)

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in the electric utilities sector
• 5+ years of experience in solution architecture
• 5+ years of direct experience with real-time grid management systems, including ADMS, DERMS, SCADA, and EMS
• Proficiency with one or more of these vendor platforms, or similar: AspenTech (Aspen Energy Analyzer, Aspen Utilities Planner, Aspen GDOT, aspenONE Engineering Suite, Aspen Plus, OSI Monarch), Siemens Spectrum Power, ABB MicroSCADA, GE PowerOn, GE Grid Solutions, GE Vernova, Schneider Electric EcoStruxure, OSIsoft PI System, Honeywell SCADA, Oracle Utilities Network Management System, Eaton CYME Grid Analysis, PcVue, or Inductive Automation Ignition

Professional Skills

• Creative, analytical approach to solving problems
• Proven ability to build a collaborative team environment
• Strong interest in working in an information systems setting
• Strong leadership, written and verbal communication, and interpersonal skills

Education / Experience

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, automation engineering, or a related field, plus 3+ years of experience, or
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, automation engineering, or a related field, plus 5+ years of experience

Physical Requirements

• Working at a computer screen for long periods
• Sitting for long periods
• Reaching with hands or arms in any direction
• Finger dexterity, for example using a keyboard
• Listening to and understanding spoken information and ideas
• Explaining information and ideas clearly when speaking
• Reading and understanding written information and ideas
• Applying general rules to specific problems to reach sensible answers
• Identifying and understanding another person's speech

Benefits

The company offers a strong benefits package, including:

• Competitive salary
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Military Reserve pay offset
• Paid maternity leave