Facilities Controls Engineer
Listed on 2026-01-12
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Engineering
Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineer, Automation Engineering
Overview
Do you want to join a team that’s changing the world? Do you have a strong background as a Facilities Controls Engineer I? Then we’re looking for you! Check out the job description and apply now! Put your skills to meaningful use, gain unique experience, and work with world‑class team members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who share the same vision.
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Meet the Recruiter: Anh Martin
Summary:
Join us at Panasonic Energy as we expand to De Soto, Kansas, where we’re building the world’s largest lithium‑ion battery factory. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career while contributing to the future of electric vehicles. As part of our team, you’ll help push the limits of battery technology, enhancing performance and efficiency in sustainable transportation.
Our state‑of‑the‑art facility, just outside the Kansas City Metro, will be a hub for innovation in green energy solutions. If you’re passionate about sustainability and eager to contribute to the electric vehicle revolution, we invite you to be part of our dynamic team. Join us and make a meaningful impact on the future of energy and transportation.
Job Summary:
The Facilities Controls Engineer I supports the design, implementation, and maintenance of industrial and building control systems, including PLCs, HMIs, VFDs, and instrumentation. This role programs, tunes, and configures controls networks while ensuring equipment operates safely and efficiently. The technician provides technical support to 24‑hour operations, assists with project execution, and ensures compliance with industry standards and codes. Collaboration with engineers across disciplines and sites is essential to drive best practices and continuous improvement in controls systems.
This role requires close supervision and guidance, impacting both the individual's work and that of the immediate team.
Functional Operations:
- Support senior controls engineers with the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of controls systems and instrumentation, including building process systems (pumps, valves, sensors) and building systems (HVAC, Life Safety Systems).
- Understand industrial equipment and processes, their operating parameters, and make decisions (with engineering support) to improve or maintain controls and instrumentation hardware and software.
- Assist with development and execution of the controls‑related scope in facility expansion and sustaining projects, including Process and Instrumentation Diagrams, Sequence of Operations, I/O lists, panel drawings, and instrumentation lists.
- Program industrial process systems, including PLCs (Allen Bradley, Omron, Mitsubishi) and Human Machine Interfaces (HMI/GUI – Ignition, Panel View).
- Program and tune variable frequency drives (ABB, Rockwell) for optimal performance.
- Configure controls networks, including Fieldbus Networks (Profi Net, Device Net, Ethernet/IP, Safety‑rated networks) and Serial communication (Modbus, RS‑232, Ethernet communications between PLCs and database systems).
- Applies basic engineering principles and standard procedures.
- Supports tasks within projects.
- Influence supplier performance through management and audits of work performed in the field.
- Works on clearly defined tasks under supervision.
- Applies existing processes and tools.
- Provide technical controls support for the 24‑hour operations team.
- Learns from mentors.
- Develop relationships and communicate with engineers across disciplines and at other Panasonic sites to foster best practice sharing and communication.
- Communicates within immediate team.
- Relies on established procedures.
- Support the selection of appropriate circuit protectors, wire and cable, sensors, safety hardware, PLC hardware, remote I/O, VFDs, and instrumentation.
- Ensure projects and systems are compliant with applicable codes and standards, such as the National Electric Code and International Society of Automation.
- To ensure health and…
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