Description
Senior Process Controls Engineer
Team: 9445
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Commitment: Full-time
Workplace Type: onsite
Senior Process Controls Engineer – Grand Rapids, Michigan
DISHER is currently partnering with a leader in food stabilization in Grand Rapids, MI to fill their Senior Process Controls Engineer position. This role is ideal for someone who understands complex, continuous-flow process environments and can translate system behavior into stable, reliable, and scalable control solutions.
What it's like to work here:
This small machine design company is committed to reducing waste and improving the planet through transforming underused resources into nutritious, profitable materials. They have a strong commitment to their company values: Selflessly Serve, Trail-Blaze, Direct Honesty, Never Settle, Work Hard Play Hard. All team members are driven by their desire to serve others and create a more sustainable way of living.
What you will get to do:
- Design, develop, and maintain PLC/HMI programs for continuous-process systems
- Integrate flow meters, pressure sensors, temperature probes, valves, VFDs, and proportional control devices into stable control architectures
- Configure and tune PID and advanced feedback loops for optimal performance under varying load, pressure, and temperature conditions
- Design and create full electrical schematics, panel layouts, field wiring diagrams, and bills of material using standard drafting tools
- Provide guidance through panel builds, electrical assembly, device checkout, and field wiring verification
- Collaborate with mechanical, process, and electrical engineering to ensure controls logic aligns with physical system behavior
- Participate in system commissioning, field testing, troubleshooting, and optimization across customer sites
- Generate documentation including control narratives, functional specifications, IO lists, and safety logic
- Support root-cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives
- Ensure compliance with safety, regulatory, and industry standards
What will make you successful:
- Minimum 10 years of professional controls engineering experience
- Strong background with PLC/HMI development, testing, commissioning, and troubleshooting
- Background in process-driven environments such as brewing, food & beverage, chemicals, wastewater, renewable energy, or similar (strongly preferred, but not strictly required)
- Experience designing or tuning control loops, PID strategies, flow/pressure control, proportional actuation, thermal or mass-transfer systems
- Ability to work through open-ended problems with incomplete requirements and build robust control logic that reflects real-world physics
- Ability to travel to customer sites as needed
- Being a strong communicator who can simplify technical concepts across disciplines
- Must have the current and continuing right to work in the United States of America
There are more than 50,000 engineering jobs:
Subscribe to membership and unlock all jobs
Engineering Jobs
60,000+ jobs from 4,500+ well-funded companies
Updated Daily
New jobs are added every day as companies post them
Refined Search
Use filters like skill, location, etc to narrow results
Become a member
🥳🥳🥳 452 happy customers and counting...
Overall, over 80% of customers chose to renew their subscriptions after the initial sign-up.
To try it out
For active job seekers
For those who are passive looking
Cancel anytime
Frequently Asked Questions
- We prioritize job seekers as our customers, unlike bigger job sites, by charging a small fee to provide them with curated access to the best companies and up-to-date jobs. This focus allows us to deliver a more personalized and effective job search experience.
- We've got over 200,000 jobs from 15,000+ vetted companies. No fake or sleazy jobs here!
- We aggregate jobs from 15,000+ companies' career pages, so you can be sure that you're getting the most up-to-date and relevant jobs.
- We're the only job board *for* software engineers, *by* software engineers… in case you needed a reminder! We add thousands of new jobs daily and offer powerful search filters just for you. 🛠️
- Every single hour! We add 2,000-3,000 new jobs daily, so you'll always have fresh opportunities. 🚀
- Typically, job searches take 3-6 months. EchoJobs helps you spend more time applying and less time hunting. 🎯
- Check daily! We're always updating with new jobs. Set up job alerts for even quicker access. 📅
What Fellow Engineers Say