Facilities Control Engineer
Lam Research · Tualatin, OR
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Controls
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level controls role at Lam Research (industrial) in Tualatin, OR.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- FMEA, PLC
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Controls Engineer roles in Oregon: typical posted base $92k–$121k.
Median of the low and high ends of 5 live postings that list pay, out of 13 controls engineer openings in Oregon, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Oregon plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 12 other live controls postings in Oregon.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $92k–$121k, from 5 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Automation 85%
- ✓ PLC 69%
- AutoCAD 31%
- ✓ Team leadership 31%
- EHS / safety 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for FMEA, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Lam Research in Tualatin
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Full description from Lam ResearchAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
and building safety codes. Leads the discipline-specific systems operations and maintenance activities to ensure safe and efficient operation.
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The group you’ll be a part of
The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.
The impact you’ll make
The Control Engineer will manage the development of discipline specific engineering designs and drawings, developing specifications, and scope of work documents for design and construction of new R&D Lab facilities, new process equipment installations, and existing facility system alterations. This includes planning facilities changes and production equipment layouts, working toward efficiency and economy of operation, maximum use of facilities and equipment, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Reviews and estimates design costs including equipment, installation, labor, materials, preparation, and other related costs. Develops design engineering criteria and performance specifications required to meet unique process equipment and facility systems operating
What you’ll do
- •Technical lead for design, construction, commissioning, system acceptance testing, and operations of critical facilities control and gas detection systems.
- •Manage the Integration of critical facilities and life safety systems into building management system (BMS) for operational visibility, alarms and trends, performing the integration directly as needed.
- •Experience designing process flow diagrams, P&IDs, single line diagrams, cable and conduit schedules, instrumentation and control data sheets, I/O lists, industrial networking, OT infrastructure and server architecture, and controls narratives is a plus.
- •Leads repairs, maintenance, calibrations and spare parts programs.
- •Ensures new facilities and new process tool installation designs incorporate the latest controls and instrumentation standards and best practices.
- •Ensure that the controls vendors are coordinated with Lam Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical) for proper delivery and implementation for controls on infrastructure projects.
- •Maintain control system infrastructure capacity to meet future demands.
- •Create standard operating documents for operation reference, train facilities technicians/outside service providers. Perform annual updates of SOPs and refresher trainings.
- •Create design and operational FMEA’s to identify failure modes and build a robust control system.
- •Manage outsourced service providers to ensure work is completed as scheduled and incident action items follow-up is completed within agreed upon durations.
- •Support startup and commissioning of all process tool installations and facilities expansion projects and s upport facilities shutdown projects and activities.
- •Flexibility to travel periodically both foreign and domestic to support global Lam projects
Who we’re looking for
- •Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical/Controls or Mechanical Engineering or Computer Science with minimum 5 years of semiconductor industry experience in a facility controls and instrumentation role. A candidate with a technical degree/certificate plus 10 years of industrial control system integration experience, including PLC programmingin a continuous process or manufacturing environment will also be considered.
- •Demonstrated responsibility for developing industrial controls and facility controls designs
- •Industry experience in one or all of the following areas; specifying industrial controls hardware and develop wiring diagrams for supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA), develop control system software in PLC ladder logic, function block, structured text and HMI programming and troubleshooting of the SCADA systems.
- •Experience with the start-up and commissioning of control hardware and software systems (systems, integration, instrumentation callout, panel layout, industrial networking, and construction)
- •Experience with Allen Bradley PLC hardware/software. Logix-based PLC programming experience developing new programs and troubleshooting existing programs. Experience with GE/Emerson PLC hardware/software is also a plus.
- •Ability to program and troubleshoot at least two commercially available industrial control system HMI software platforms. (Wonderware InTouch, GE Cimplicity, GE iFix, Rockwell Factory Talk, Ignition, ALC, Delta)
- •Experience configuring and troubleshooting networking devices such as industrial Ethernet switches, gateways and OPC servers. Configuring and troubleshooting industrial protocols (Common Industrial Protocol - ControlNet, DeviceNet, EtherNet/IP, Modbus RTU and TCP/IP, BACnet, Profinet, Profibus, Foundation Fieldbus and HART Protocol)
- •Desired working knowledge of firefighting, toxic gas monitoring design, experience designing and operating Fire Life Safety Systems (FLSS) including Fire Protection/fire sprinklers, fire alarm/fire detection and toxic gas monitoring systems (TGMS), experienced reviewing fire alarm programming and signaling needed to meet applicable NFPA and local fire code, experience working with Honeywell Gas Detection (Vertex, ACM150, Sensepoint XCD ) programming, alarming, and signaling.
Our commitment
We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.
