Senior Controls Engineer, Manufacturing Automation
Anduril Industries · Ashville, OH
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Controls
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 6+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior controls role at Anduril Industries (aerospace & defense) in Ashville, OH. Engineering, Robotics, Information Technology, or a related field.
- They ask for
- 6+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- FDA / GMP, PLC, Robotics, Automation, SolidWorks, AutoCAD
- Openings
- 2 with this title at this site
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Controls Engineer roles in Ohio: typical posted base $100k–$148k.
Median of the low and high ends of 6 live postings that list pay, out of 26 controls engineer openings in Ohio, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 25 other live controls postings in Ohio.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (6+ vs 5+)
Typical $100k–$148k, from 6 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ PLC 77%
- ✓ Automation 77%
- ✓ Robotics 69%
- Team leadership 35%
- Root cause 31%
- Lean 27%
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This plant: Anduril Industries in Ashville
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Full description from Anduril IndustriesAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Required qualifications
- ✓Engineering, Robotics, Information Technology, or a related field
- ✓6+ years of controls and automation experience in a production environment
- ✓Strong PLC programming skills on Allen-Bradley and/or Siemens platforms
- ✓Proficiency in Ignition SCADA development, including gateway modules (Tag Historian, Alarm Notification, SQL, OPC UA, MQTT Engine/Distributor/Transmission)
- ✓Proficiency across the OT stack — MQTT, OPC UA, TCP/IP, industrial Ethernet, VLANs, switching, and routing
- ✓Working knowledge of OT cybersecurity, including air-gapped networks, network segmentation, server hardening, and secure remote access
- ✓Must be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
- ✓U.S. citizenship is required pursuant to contractual obligations
Preferred qualifications
- ✓Experience in regulated or defense manufacturing environments (ITAR/EAR-controlled, CMMC, or FDA/aerospace quality systems)
- ✓Experience integrating controls systems with MES and QMS platforms
- ✓Experience deploying Ignition in redundant/high-availability gateway topologies
- ✓Experience with torque tools and 2D/3D vision systems
- ✓Familiarity with control panel layout, electrical component selection, and cable routing
- ✓Familiarity with CAD packages such as SolidWorks, NX, CATIA, or AutoCAD
$127,000 — $170,000 USD
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits .
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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
About the team
As a Senior Controls Engineer, you’ll be the technical owner of controls systems on the manufacturing floor — from architecture and PLC/HMI development through commissioning, proof of rate, and sustainment. You’ll build and harden the OT/IT automation infrastructure that keeps production running, set the standard for how the controls team designs secure and reliable systems, and represent that work in cross-functional design reviews and cybersecurity buy-offs.
What you’ll do
- •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Information Technology, or related field
- •6+ years of experience in controls and automation in a production environment
- •Strong in PLC programming on Allen-Bradley and/or Siemens platforms
- •Proficient in OPC UA, MQTT Engine/Distributor/Transmission)
- •Proficient across the OT stack — MQTT, OPC UA, TCP/IP, industrial Ethernet, VLANs, switching/routing — with fluency in packet-level analysis
- •Working knowledge of OT cybersecurity — air-gapped networks, network segmentation, server hardening, secure remote access
- •Experience integrating with MES and QMS
- •Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
- •Collaborate with cross-functional teams, which requires regular interaction with production and manufacturing stakeholders and frequently working directly on the production floor
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