Controls Engineer (Automotive)

Location: Warren, Michigan, United States; onsite controls engineering role supporting a major automotive manufacturing implementation.

Company

hirify.global delivers long-term technology projects and engineering solutions for complex customer missions.

What you will do

• Design and develop Allen-Bradley ControlLogix and GuardLogix PLC programs from the ground up using Studio 5000 and RSLogix 5000.
• Build PLC architecture, ladder logic, tag structures, UDTs, AOIs, sequencing, diagnostics, alarms, and equipment interfaces.
• Develop Ignition HMI/SCADA applications, including screens, tags, scripting, alarms, communications, and configuration.
• Integrate PLCs with MES systems and implement work-order validation, traceability, recipes, production reporting, and serial-number transactions.
• Integrate barcode scanners, RFID systems, Zebra printers, and automated ZPL label-printing processes.
• Perform startup, debugging, FAT/SAT, commissioning, production launch, troubleshooting, and controls documentation.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with Allen-Bradley ControlLogix/GuardLogix and Studio 5000 or RSLogix 5000.
• Experience writing new PLC programs for equipment, stations, or production lines from scratch.
• Hands-on Inductive Automation Ignition experience, including screens, tags, scripting, or application architecture.
• Experience integrating PLCs with MES or manufacturing information systems and implementing manufacturing transactions.
• Experience commissioning automated manufacturing equipment and troubleshooting controls hardware, PLC software, industrial networks, and production systems.
• Experience in automotive or other high-volume discrete manufacturing environments.

Nice to have

• Experience generating ZPL code and integrating Zebra industrial printers.
• Barcode, RFID, Ignition Vision, or Ignition Perspective development experience.
• Industrial networking experience with Ethernet/IP, OPC UA, SQL, or related technologies.
• Experience taking controls projects through design, development, integration, startup, commissioning, and production launch.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, controls engineering, mechatronics, automation, industrial engineering, or a related discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Long-term projects using modern technology to solve complex customer problems.
• Employee-focused environment with competitive compensation and benefits.
• Flexible work-life balance and a close-knit, open atmosphere.
• Direct access to company owners and leadership.