Facilities Controls Engineer (North Texas) - Richardson, TX, United States
Originally posted 28 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This engineering position maintains, troubleshoots, and improves control systems supporting 24/7 semiconductor manufacturing operations. The role leads the engineering lifecycle for facility systems including air handling, exhaust, water treatment, electrical power monitoring, and life safety systems.
What you'll do
- Serve as the engineering escalation point for 24/7 operations teams, troubleshooting controllers, instrumentation, and control system issues across manufacturing facility systems. - Provide engineering expertise for control systems across air handling, exhaust, de-ionized water, cooling/hot/potable water, drain systems, electrical power monitoring, and life safety systems. - Independently drive controls-scope projects through initiation, design, engineering, and commissioning while providing technical leadership on multi-discipline projects. - Develop and maintain controls documentation, including Sequence of Operations, P&IDs, I/O lists, and panel/wiring drawings. - Develop and review operational and maintenance procedures to ensure standardized best practices. - Support mentoring and technical development for early career controls engineers and technicians.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related degree. - 5+ years of relevant controls engineering experience in an industrial or facilities environment. - Demonstrated hands-on experience programming and troubleshooting Siemens PLCs.
Nice to have
- Proficiency with Siemens TIA Portal (S7-1200/1500) and/or Classic Step 7 (S7-300/400). - Advanced experience with SCADA systems in an operational or configuration capacity, or familiarity with platforms including Aveva System Platform, Iconics, Siemens PCS7, Zenon CopaData, or SQL. - Experience with Wago PLC platforms (CoDeSys) and Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation PLCs. - Experience with industrial network design, configuration, and troubleshooting (Cisco and/or Hirschmann equipment preferred). - Understanding of PID loop tuning, Function Block Diagram and structured text programming, alarm/trend analysis, and reading low voltage wiring diagrams and P&IDs. - Experience with FMEA, Root Cause Analysis methodologies (e.g., 3x5 Why, 4-Corner Analysis, Cause Map), and controls commissioning in a semiconductor fab or data center environment.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 57-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3904
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$126k
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| Metric | Texas Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (3904 roles · 84 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 90 | 3904 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 255 | 10289 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 63 d | 57 d (+6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 663 open roles · median 56 d
- Lam Research · 568 open roles · median 40 d
- KLA Corporation · 290 open roles · median 68 d
- Micron Technology · 270 open roles · median 51 d
- ASML · 183 open roles · median 81 d
- ASM International · 157 open roles · median 85 d
How we counted: 3904 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 84 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 28 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.