Lexington Controls & Automation Engineer (Manufacturing Automation)

Location: Lexington, South Carolina, United States

Company

hirify.global is an industrial manufacturing company focused on producing and improving manufacturing equipment and processes.

What you will do

• Design, maintain, troubleshoot, and continuously improve PLC, HMI, SCADA, electrical, instrumentation, and industrial network systems.
• Provide advanced controls support for production escalations and resolve recurring equipment issues with engineering technicians, maintenance, production, quality, and engineering teams.
• Improve equipment uptime, process capability, yield, scrap, and downtime through root cause analysis, process monitoring, SPC, and continuous improvement.
• Develop manufacturing dashboards, automated data collection solutions, reporting tools, and machine fault diagnostics.
• Lead controls-related capital projects from concept through implementation, including scopes, schedules, budgets, specifications, vendor coordination, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup.
• Support process capability studies, GR&R, Measurement System Analysis, DOE, Six Sigma projects, and automated monitoring of critical process parameters.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Controls, Automation, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline.
• 3–7+ years of manufacturing controls and automation experience.
• Experience with PLCs, HMIs, SCADA systems, industrial networks, drives, motors, sensors, vision systems, and servo controls.
• Ability to troubleshoot electrical, instrumentation, controls, and manufacturing equipment issues.
• Experience with process capability metrics such as Cp, Cpk, Pp, and Ppk, as well as process data analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting high-speed manufacturing processes.
• Experience leading automation or capital projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with operations engineering, engineering technicians, maintenance, production, quality, and project engineering.
• Work focused on equipment reliability, manufacturing performance, digital transformation, and continuous improvement.
• hirify.global is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation during the hiring process.
• Legitimate recruitment communications come from official hirify.global email domains, and no payment or financial information is requested during recruitment.

Hiring process

• Formal interviews are required before a job offer is extended.