Principal PLC Engineer

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divcon

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🤝 B2B

⚡ Energy

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Series unknown on 2024-03

B2B • Energy • Enterprise

divcon is one of the leading independent mission-critical controls providers, specializing in the design, engineering, and deployment of custom building management (BMS) and electrical power monitoring (EPMS) systems for data centers and other mission-critical facilities. The company offers turnkey and customizable control systems, distributed energy resource management, advanced telemetry and analytics, preventative maintenance and 24/7 service, and sustainability-focused reporting (PUE/WUE, Scope 1-3 emissions). Headquartered in Texas, Divcon combines technical engineering expertise with managed services and SaaS-enabled analytics to help enterprise clients optimize reliability, energy efficiency, and operational performance.

📋 Description

• Serve as the senior-most technical authority for PLC engineering standards, architecture, programming practices, and complex technical decisions. • Set and maintain PLC programming standards, code review expectations, documentation requirements, reusable code libraries, templates, naming conventions, and best practices. • Lead architectural decisions for new, complex, high-risk, or highly visible projects. • Define scalable PLC control strategies, redundancy approaches, I/O structures, network design principles, alarm strategies, and system recovery methods. • Serve as the final technical escalation point for complex PLC programming, troubleshooting, commissioning, integration, and field issues. • Stay current on major PLC platforms, automation technologies, control system trends, and relevant innovations that can improve Divcon’s engineering capabilities. • Own the technical quality bar for PLC engineering deliverables across the team. • Establish and improve code review processes, design review practices, technical validation methods, and project turnover standards. • Conduct or oversee technical reviews at key project milestones. • Ensure PLC solutions are reliable, maintainable, scalable, supportable, and aligned with Divcon standards and customer requirements. • Drive continuous improvement in how the PLC Engineering team programs, tests, documents, commissions, and delivers PLC solutions. • Partner with SCADA, SCA, field, commissioning, project management, and other engineering counterparts to ensure technical consistency at integration points. • Take ownership of the most technically demanding, complex, ambiguous, or highest-risk PLC engineering challenges. • Provide technical complexity assessments during project scoping, estimating, and planning. • Support project teams in defining control strategies for large-scale data center, central plant, HVAC, mechanical, electrical, and critical infrastructure systems. • Guide resolution of severe or time-sensitive technical issues during start-up, commissioning, customer acceptance, and post-deployment support. • Advise Lead PLC Engineers on technical approach, architecture, project risk, and issue resolution. • Provide advanced technical mentorship to Lead PLC Engineers, Senior PLC Engineers, PLC Engineers, and Associate PLC Engineers. • Act as a dotted-line technical coach for the PLC Engineering team while remaining outside the people-management chain. • Partner with the PLC Engineering Manager to identify skill gaps, define development priorities, and build structured technical development plans. • Lead or organize internal technical training sessions, code walkthroughs, architecture reviews, lessons-learned sessions, and best-practice discussions. • Create an environment where engineers feel comfortable bringing forward difficult technical problems, design questions, and escalation needs. • Support onboarding and technical ramp-up for new PLC Engineering team members. • Represent Divcon’s highest level of PLC technical expertise in client-facing meetings, design reviews, technical escalations, and strategic discussions. • Partner with project managers, engineering managers, SCADA engineers, SCA engineers, field technicians, commissioning teams, vendors, contractors, and system integrators to ensure seamless delivery. • Translate complex technical issues into clear recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Influence technical decisions without relying on formal management authority. • Help build Divcon’s reputation for technical excellence in PLC engineering, critical infrastructure controls, and data center automation.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on PLC programming, controls engineering, or industrial automation experience; 8+ years may be considered for exceptional candidates with strong technical depth. • Deep expertise with Rockwell / Allen-Bradley Studio 5000 and related automation tools. • Expertise in at least one additional major PLC platform, SCADA platform, or industrial automation ecosystem strongly preferred. • Proven experience designing, programming, troubleshooting, and commissioning complex PLC control systems in industrial, mission-critical, or large-scale facility environments. • Demonstrated ability to solve complex, time-sensitive technical problems in the field. • Experience developing or governing PLC programming standards, reusable code libraries, architecture patterns, documentation practices, and code review processes. • Experience mentoring, coaching, or technically leading engineers at multiple levels. • Strong understanding of industrial communication protocols such as Ethernet/IP, Modbus TCP, BACnet/IP, OPC-UA, and related integration methods. • Strong documentation habits and commitment to repeatable, maintainable, scalable engineering practices. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineers, managers, clients, vendors, contractors, and cross-functional partners.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development opportunities