Automation & Controls Engineer III

Automation & Controls Engineer III

Join TAI's Electrical and Controls Engineering Group as an Engineer III and take the lead in detailed electrical and process controls design for diverse projects. You’ll drive work across the full project lifecycle—from conceptual design and cost estimation to construction administration and system commissioning—while ensuring compliance with industry codes and coordinating with multiple engineering disciplines. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly experienced engineer with a strong background in automation control systems to make a significant impact.

TAI has been a leading multidisciplinary firm for over 35 years, providing expert engineering, management, and technical services to industrial, manufacturing, commercial, and mission‑critical markets. With over 300 skilled professionals, 16 divisions, and six offices across the U.S., TAI offers sole‑source solutions for complex projects, built on long‑term client partnerships and a culture that attracts top talent.

• Plan, organize, and perform detailed electrical and controls design and support management of engineering activities.
• Receive general administrative direction from the division manager and design process controls for multiple projects of varying complexity.
• Research applicable industry standards, prepare engineering studies, analyze systems, and produce preliminary and detailed engineering designs.
• Develop engineering specifications and project cost estimates.
• Review work of the project design team, monitor progress, and alert managers to scope changes and additional services.
• Coordinate most aspects of project document completion.
• Direct CAD designers for the preparation of construction drawings.
• Interpret and apply applicable codes.
• Independently work with code officials and other design professionals when interpretation or an exception to codes is required.
• Coordinate project design with other engineering disciplines.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Electrical, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering.
• Professional Engineer licensure is preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of controls design experience.
• Ability to communicate with customers to gather critical information.
• Working knowledge of NEC (NFPA 70).
• Effectively manage multiple ongoing projects and tasks.
• Assure compliance with company and client CAD standards.
• Capable of performing field surveys to document existing conditions.
• Review construction packages from designers for company and department standards.
• Specify, design, program, and maintain automation control systems for industrial, power, oil & gas, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, food & beverage facilities, with significant expertise in at least one of the core industries served by TAI.
• Specify both digital and analog instrumentation (Level, Flow, Pressure, Temperature, Analytical – pH, LEL, O₂, CO, CO₂, etc.) and integrate into construction and panel drawing sets.
• Specify electrical component and field devices (combination starters, VFDs, MCCs, push buttons/selector switches, heat trace, etc.).
• Design, review, and approve electrical construction drawing sets—including instrument location plans, conduit block and network architecture drawings.
• Design, review, and approve PLC control panel and motor control panel drawings.
• Specify and program controls systems, including the Rockwell family of processors and HMIs; program new applications and modify existing applications with ample annotation for future reference.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, Modbus, Profibus, and other industrial communication protocols.
• Experience programming Wonderware, IFix, Maple, Delta V, Siemens, Omron, Modicon, Mitsubishi, and Koyo is a plus.
• Experience programming SCADA and SQL is a plus.
• Specify control systems for use in hazardous area locations as identified by NFPA 70.
• Knowledge of ISA standards and ability to interpret and contribute to the development of P&.
• Design robust safety circuits and specify components of varying industry requirements.
• Working knowledge of NFPA 79.