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Controls Engineer Senior

Flowserve Corp
  • Kalamazoo, MI
    9 days ago

    Job Description

    Company Overview:

    Flowserve is a global manufacturer of pumps, valves, seals, and aftermarket services, delivering comprehensive flow control solutions that support essential industries such as energy, clean water, and pharmaceuticals. If you're looking for a culture built on ingenuity, innovation, and excellence, Flowserve offers the opportunity to put your experience in motion. Whether you're an individual contributor or a people leader, you'll find meaningful opportunities for professional growth, competitive rewards, and a workplace grounded in our core values: People, Safety, Integrity, Ownership and Ingenuity. At Flowserve, we're inspired by what we can achieve together-creating extraordinary flow control solutions that strengthen today's world while building tomorrow.

    Controls Engineer, Senior

    Req ID: R-20484

    Your Role and Impact

    The Controls Engineer, Senior will be a key member of Flowserve's Innovation Team, helping transform new ideas into commercially viable products through rapid development and validation. This role is responsible for developing, integrating, and validating control system solutions for mechatronic products and systems while collaborating across engineering disciplines to deliver robust, scalable, and manufacturable solutions for high-growth markets. You will play a critical role in advancing innovative technologies from concept through prototype development, testing, and commercialization.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Lead and guide controls and electrical engineers in executing the overall controls architecture vision for innovative product development programs.

    • Define and develop controls architectures for mechatronic systems, including remote monitoring, connectivity, intelligent diagnostics, and automation capabilities.

    • Select platforms, controllers, devices, and components to meet product requirements related to performance, scalability, reliability, and manufacturability.

    • Integrate electrical, mechanical, software, and controls components to ensure complete system functionality and performance.

    • Create, modify, and maintain PLC programs using platforms such as ABB Automation Builder, Allen-Bradley, CODESYS, Unitronics, and similar technologies.

    • Translate product and system requirements into effective controls solutions, specifications, and technical documentation.

    • Develop and execute validation plans, performance testing activities, troubleshooting efforts, and reliability assessments.

    • Improve controls functionality through advanced diagnostics, intelligent monitoring capabilities, and innovative system integration.

    • Collaborate closely with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, project management, product management, and supplier partners.

    • Support prototype development activities and transition successful concepts into scalable manufacturing solutions.

    • Contribute to technical reviews, design documentation, validation records, engineering standards, and best practices.

    Required Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

    • Experience developing control systems, mechatronic products, industrial power systems, control panels, or related industrial technologies.

    • Demonstrated success developing new products or technologies from concept through prototyping, testing, validation, and commercialization.

    • Strong PLC programming experience and controls logic development capabilities.

    • Experience supporting system integration activities involving electrical, mechanical, and controls components.

    • Ability to develop controls architectures and technical solutions for complex engineered systems.

    • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

    • Ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional engineering and business teams.

    • Ability to independently lead technical efforts and serve as a subject matter expert.

    • Ability to travel up to 25%, including domestic and international travel.

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Experience programming and developing solutions using CODESYS environments.

    • Experience working with fieldbus technologies and industrial communication networks.

    • Experience integrating industrial devices such as VFDs, motion controllers, sensors, actuators, and I/O systems.

    • Familiarity with communication protocols including Modbus, Profinet, Ethernet/IP, and industrial Ethernet networks.

    • Experience with industrial panel design, testing, validation, and commissioning activities.

    • Experience supporting product development programs in manufacturing or industrial environments.

    • Exposure to mechatronics, connected products, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), or intelligent diagnostics technologies.

    • Experience developing solutions that include remote monitoring, connectivity, and predictive maintenance capabilities.

    • Knowledge of product validation methodologies and reliability testing practices.

    • Experience working within innovation, research and development, or advanced engineering environments.

    What We Can Offer You

    At Flowserve, you'll find a range of options to fit your, and your family's, needs. We want to provide our team with the right resources to invest in your physical, mental and financial well-being no matter where you sit or what stage of life you're in.

    Our benefits include:

    • Competitive Salary

    • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

    • Retirement Planning & Financial Wellness Resources

    • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)

    • Short- and Long-Term Disability

    • Parental Leave

    • Life, Supplemental Life, Child, Spousal, and AD&D Insurance

    Benefits vary by job, location, and/or collective bargaining agreement.

    Req ID : R-20484

    Job Family Group : Engineering

    Job Family : EN Instrumentation and Control Engineer

    EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. Flowserve will also not discriminate against an applicant or employee for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision

    If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access flowservecareers.com as result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to employment@flowserve.com. In order to quickly respond to your request, please use the words "Accommodation Request" as your subject line of your email. For more information, read the Accessibility Process.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationKalamazoo, MI
    IndustryEngineering Services
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1997

    About Company

    Our global team of more than 18,000 employees in 55 countries can put together the total solution—from project planning to lifecycle maintenance programs to some of the most proven technology on the planet. All so you can get more from your capital investment. Exceed your operational goals. And always come through, when failure is not an option.

    Skills

    • ABB (Asea Brown Boveri)unmatched
    • Allen-Bradleyunmatched
    • Alternative Energyunmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
    • Commissioningunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Communications Protocolsunmatched
    • Control Engineeringunmatched
    • Control Systemsunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Dental Insuranceunmatched
    • Electrical Engineeringunmatched
    • Electricityunmatched
    • Ethernetunmatched
    • IP (Internet Protocol)unmatched
    • Industrial Designunmatched
    • Input/Outputunmatched
    • Internet of Thingsunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Manufacturingunmatched
    • Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
    • Performance Testingunmatched
    • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
    • Product Developmentunmatched
    • Product Managementunmatched
    • Product Supportunmatched
    • Product Testingunmatched
    • Program Controlunmatched
    • Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)unmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Prototypingunmatched
    • Pumpsunmatched
    • Quality Assurance Methodologyunmatched
    • RMONunmatched
    • Rapid Application Development (RAD)unmatched
    • Reliability Analysisunmatched
    • Reliability Testingunmatched
    • Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
    • Retirement Planningunmatched
    • System Architectureunmatched
    • System Integration (SI)unmatched
    • System Validationunmatched
    • Systems Engineeringunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Technical Leadershipunmatched
    • Technical Writingunmatched
    • Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
    • Test Designunmatched
    • Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
    • Testingunmatched
    • Validation Documentationunmatched
    • Validation Planunmatched
    • Validation Testingunmatched
    • Vision Planunmatched
    • Willing to Travelunmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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