GABLETEK

Aug 21, 2026

Controls Engineer

United States

Troy, Michigan, United States

About the opportunity

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* Travel is about 25%

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CONTROLS ENGINEER

Job Description

Responsible for the designing, engineering, and procuring mechanical and electrical equipment and systems for the assembly area.

Programs the assembly equipment, and supports manufacturing needs.

Assist and repair engineering related electrical breakdowns on the assembly equipment.

Support Production, Maintenance, and Process Teams in troubleshooting of equipment

Responsibilities

Design, engineer, and procure assembly equipment for future programs. Help maintain and re-engineer current assembly equipment

Hardware design

Program assembly equipment

Apply safety rules with immediate reaction in case of detected dangerous situation

Ensure that all safety devices of machines are operational before their restart after engineering intervention

Ensure quality standards are upheld

Working collaboratively with Process/Quality Engineers and maintenance to develop new processes or process improvements

Ground up robotics and controls hardware and logic design, electrical schematics, BOM, assembly, debug, and validation

Test, update, and industrialize existing equipment

Recover equipment from breakdowns, contribute to analysis of root cause, and suggest permanent corrective actions

Escalate deviations after machine observation in curative maintenance

Participate to Line QRQC (Quick Response Quality Control), participate in APU QRQC

Participate in machine run-off of new manufacturing equipment at supplier

Constant improvement to SCADA and MES systems

Propose and Create Monthly/Annual preventative maintenance documentation for automated equipment and control systems

Assist in development of Work Instructions, PFMEA, and all Process Documentation

Investigate and propose Advanced Process Control (APC), Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS) for future manufacturing delivery improvement

Project management within individual environment

Attention to budget

Escalate roadblocks preventing on-time deliverables

Ability to read and create mechanical and electrical schematics

Use control systems to assist maintenance team with motion controls, Servos, VFDs, pneumatic controls, and relay logic

Help create and install vision systems used in production

Required Skills for This Position

2+ years of previous experience working in a manufacturing environment

5+ years of PLC and HMI programming (Allen Bradley and/or Siemens)

2+ years of Robotics programming

Experience reading and creating electrical prints and schematics

Experience with manufacturing equipment is required

Ability to communicate with customers both internal and external

Time management and technical problem solving autonomy must be well developed APC, MPC, and DCS experience highly preferred

Experience programming motion controls, Servos, VFDs, pneumatic controls, and relay logic

Project management/leadership

Experience programming vision systems (Keyence and/or Cognex) preferred

About GableTek

GABLETEK strives to develop partnerships with our customers, while providing the highest standard of commitment, quality, professionalism and customer satisfaction.

GABLETEK understands productivity and efficiency play key roles in an efficient production environment. It is a prerequisite for company’s today to think outside the box and be ahead of the pack when it comes to increasing productivity and efficiency while keeping costs down. In a complex world with competing demands for limited resources, GABLETEK offers clear and proven solutions made possible with sound design methods, innovation and industry leading approaches.

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