Facilities Controls Engineer | PLC/SCADA Application Developer - Dallas, TX, United States
Originally posted 20 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Facilities Controls Engineer at Texas Instruments, you will be responsible for building, sustaining, and troubleshooting utility systems in support of a semiconductor wafer fab. The role focuses on PLC/SCADA application development across systems including chemicals, gases, electrical, water, HVAC, waste, and vacuum.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and troubleshoot control systems and instrumentation, including flow, pressure, temperature, level, pH, and water quality monitoring equipment. - Program and troubleshoot programmable logic controllers (PLCs), including PLC hardware, I/O interface modules, and programming software. - Program and troubleshoot Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for monitoring facility operations. - Design, implement, and troubleshoot industrial networks supporting communication across PLCs and SCADA drivers. - Develop controls-related project scope for facility expansions and sustaining projects, including P&IDs, sequence of operations, I/O lists, and panel drawings. - Provide technical controls support for the 24-hour operations team while ensuring compliance with applicable codes such as the National Electric Code and International Fire Code.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering. - 5+ years of relevant engineering experience with industrial controls and instrumentation systems. - Demonstrated experience programming and troubleshooting PLCs and SCADA systems. - Experience with industrial networks and device communication protocols.
Nice to have
- Experience with controls and instrumentation for process systems such as process cooling water, hot water, air systems, exhaust, and chem/gas distribution. - Experience with Siemens, Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley, or WAGO PLCs. - Experience developing or delivering turnkey Wonderware / Operation Management Interface (OMI) SCADA systems. - Working knowledge of PID loop tuning, terminating instrumentation, and performing calibration through software interfaces. - Experience troubleshooting field instrumentation, pneumatic and electric control valves, variable speed drives, and motor starters.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 55-day median for Semiconductor Equipment Engineering roles.
Semiconductor Equipment Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
3898
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$126k
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| Metric | Texas Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (3898 roles · 82 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 92 | 3898 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 259 | 10066 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 60 d | 55 d (+5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $126k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 674 open roles · median 50 d
- Lam Research · 578 open roles · median 41 d
- Micron Technology · 285 open roles · median 46 d
- KLA Corporation · 248 open roles · median 70 d
- ASML · 188 open roles · median 71 d
- ASM International · 165 open roles · median 89 d
How we counted: 3898 open Semiconductor Equipment Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 82 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 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.