Senior Controls Engineer

**Thank you for your interest in joining our team! At CGB, you can contribute to meaningful work, grow professionally and personally, and belong in a place where everyone has a voice.** **Founded in 1969, CGB Enterprises, Inc. is known as an innovative and progressive leader in the grain and transportation industries. Today, CGB operates an enterprise with over 100 locations and nearly 2,000 U.S. employees overseeing a diverse family of businesses that provide an array of services for producers and logistics services for an international base of customers. The combination of our assets provides a growing organization that is celebrating over 50 years of strength and stability!** Join a collaborative team where you'll have the opportunity to design, implement, and advance automation systems that keep operations running safely and efficiently. From programming and troubleshooting to leading capital projects and driving process improvements, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our facility while growing your technical expertise and project leadership skills. This job is an individual contributor primarily responsible for performing control systems design, programming, implementation production and troubleshooting PLC/DCS systems as well as instrumentation calibrations, checks, purchasing, and troubleshooting. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, network design and layout, program, debugs, determines material and/or component specifications, writes programming to operate machinery, purchasing, budgeting, permitting, training, supervising, documenting, startup and electrical drawings. **In this job, you will:** - Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations; problems can include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues. - Fully participate in the company Safety, Food Safety, and Quality programs. - Monitor production processes, solve production issues, and formulate ideas for improvements of efficiencies and safety, implement changes. - Coordinate projects from conception to completion; including project planning, hours estimation, scheduling, recommend/implement drawing changes for reduction in production time and ease of assembly; recommend/initiate production process changes to improve productivity and meet cost targets. - Perform basic to moderate design tasks including site preparation, , electrical layout and design plans. - Responsible for oversight and maintaining operation software including Historian, Maximo, OPC server, Kepserver, Linkmaster - Create layouts, sketches, details and assembly drawings of projects; review drawings for production feasibility and cost impact. - Create PLC/DCS programs for new process equipment, upgrade for existing equipment. - Create HMI screens for new process equipment, upgrade for existing equipment. - Develop system documentation including operation and maintenance manuals. - Program PLC’s, Drives, HMI and other automation components. - Perform startups: troubleshoot panel/machine after build; in-field alterations and corrections. - Backup programming and data. - Troubleshoot controls issues including PLC, HMI, VFD both remotely and on site. - Specify, purchase, and / or design electrical and control panels. - Provide plant check-out, commissioning, and start-up services. - Work with management on capital projects and production issues. - Assist with IBM Maximo implementation and ongoing support, BIRT reports. - Stay up to date with knowledge of new and existing products, applications, and standards: NFPA, IEC and CE as they relate to control panel design and build. - Other duties as assigned. **Here’s what you’ll need to be considered:** **Education** Required - Associates degree in Engineering or relevant work experience. **Experience** Required – Experience or background in Controls. Preferred - 2 years' related controls experience. Experience with Delta V, ABB Freelance, Data…