PLC Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

HiFyve is hiring for a Controls Engineer in Springfield, MO!

• $90,000 - $100,000 + overtime when traveling (20%-30% travel)
• Profit Sharing
• Bachelor’s Degree is NOT required
• Roughly $50 / day per diem for meals (when traveling)
• Direct bill to the client on lodging so the employee doesn’t have to pay upfront & be reimbursed (when traveling)
• Mileage is reimbursed when traveling via car their personal car to a site (proof of insurance is required)
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Relocation assistance for the right candidate

Location :  Springfield, MO

Will travel 20-30%. The travel is to perform site surveys once the Pre-Sales Engineering Group sells a new contract. The travel is in 7 states : MO, KS, OK, KY, TN, AR, MS. The travel is usually 1-2 days in length for each trip. If the travel will cause you to be back late, you will stay overnight and come back during business hours the next day.

About the company :

They put in high-tech Automation / Controls / PLCs into correctional facilities (jails). Everything is integrated into innovative touch panels. These control the jail’s : utilities, lighting, water, door locks & the intercom system.

NOTE :  Extensive background check to meet hiring criteria

The role :  Controls Engineer

You will help the company to integrate controls platforms into client sites in order to automate the facilities, by doing site surveys once the sales engineering group completes their systems drawings.

This controls engineer goes on-site with the design (to automate the jail) and does the testing to ensure everything is going to work, comes back & makes any modifications or change requests.

You need to have experience in CAD and Drafting standards

You need to be able to produce system component and line level drawings

Must be 100% proficient in PLCs and Relays

Benefits : 401K w / match

Profit Sharing :  10% of the company’s profits get divvy’d up between the employees after the year ends & the profit sharing goes into their 401K (the amount is dependent on the role within the company)

Medical / Dental / Vision :  eligible first of the month after hired

Scholarship fund for employees’ kids (submit application to win one of five scholarships)

PTO :

You get 40 hours the day you are hired & after 90 days you start accruing another 40 hours (year 1)

120 hours for year 2

140 hours for year 4

Keeps increasing up to 190 hours