Controls Engineer (PLC/SCADA)

Location: Santa Teresa, New Mexico; on-site. Travel up to 15% domestically. Must be eligible to work in the United States and pass comprehensive background screening.

Salary: $160,000–$195,000 annually with 10% bonus potential. A separate compensation range of $133,000–$154,000 is also listed.

Company

hirify.global builds, owns, and operates wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers for hyperscale and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Support the implementation, commissioning, operation, maintenance, and optimization of PLC-based controls across critical mechanical and electrical infrastructure.
• Maintain and troubleshoot Ignition SCADA front-end systems, including tags, alarms, graphics, historians, reporting, scripting, and integrations.
• Support MQTT data movement, databases, system integrations, and connectivity for OT systems, PLCs, SCADA servers, field devices, and monitoring platforms.
• Troubleshoot controls events involving building automation, PLC, SCADA, EPMS, sensors, actuators, meters, networks, and databases; perform root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Validate power quality meters, sequences, alarms, trends, data integrity, system performance, and turnover documentation with commissioning agents, contractors, vendors, and engineering teams.
• Support operational readiness, site acceptance testing, integrated systems testing, technical training, standards development, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Controls, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience with building automation, industrial controls, SCADA, PLCs, EPMS, or mission-critical facility control systems.
• Hands-on experience with Allen-Bradley PLCs, including logic review, troubleshooting, field validation, and supervisory system integration.
• Experience with Ignition SCADA, including tag structures, alarm configuration, graphics, historian functions, scripting, reporting, and integration.
• Strong understanding of chilled water systems, chiller plants, pumping systems, heat rejection, hydronic loops, electrical monitoring, and power quality meters.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex controls issues and support off-hours troubleshooting, maintenance windows, emergency response, and critical operational events.

Nice to have

• Experience with hyperscale, semiconductor, industrial, utility, or other large-scale mission-critical campuses.
• Ignition certification or advanced Ignition development experience.
• Experience with enterprise MQTT brokers, SEL power quality meters and relays, and PostgreSQL databases.
• Knowledge of OT cybersecurity, network segmentation, authentication, certificate management, and secure access practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Healthcare, dental, vision, life insurance, paid time off, and paid leave programs.
• 401(k), flexible spending accounts, and a cell phone subsidy.
• Peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
• Company events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.