Manufacturing Applications and Controls Principal Specialist (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-06-13

Country:

United States of America

Location:

PW103: Midland GA 8801 Macon Road , Midland, GA, 31820 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

Job Description

Pratt & Whitney is working to once again transform the future of flight—designing, building and servicing engines unlike any the world has ever seen. And because transformation begins from within, we’re seeking the people to drive it. So, calling all curious. 

Come ready to explore and you’ll find a place where your talent takes flight—beyond the borders of title, a country or your comfort zone. Bring your passion and commitment and we’ll welcome you into a tight-knit team that takes our mission personally. Channel your drive to make a difference into shaping an organization and an industry that’s evolving fast to the future.

At Pratt & Whitney, the difference you make is on display every day. Just look up. Are you ready to go beyond?

Pratt and Whitney Digital Technology - Manufacturing Applications, has a new position for a Manufacturing Applications and Controls Principal Specialist.

This is an onsite opportunity located at our P&W facilities located in Columbus, Georgia.

What You Will Do:

You will be an important part of a world leading Aerospace Manufacturing company with State of the Art Technology working as a Factory Automation Controls Engineer supporting our manufacturing shop floor.

The Controls Engineer will be responsible for the day-to-day development, support, and troubleshooting of automated machine tool control systems and manufacturing applications. 

This will include but is not limited to machine tool HMI screens, reporting or visualization tools such as Manufacturing tracking and priority systems, Manufacturing process data consolidation, and Statistical Process Control tools (SPC).

Job tasks will include developing control system approaches and supporting projects related to control systems such as upgrades, process optimizations, and troubleshooting machine tool issues. 

This position will design, develop, and program PLC based automation and process control systems enabling the integration of manufacturing tools and processes, as well as assist with the development of data collection methods. 

Projects frequently involve working with a team of customers and vendors to integrate new control systems and machine tools into an existing manufacturing network and control system structure.

Other Key Responsibilities:

- Develop user friendly HMI interfaces for various machine control systems.

- Troubleshoot control systems within the manufacturing processes.

- Gain an understanding of manufacturing processes and goals to identify optimization and improvement opportunities.

- Provide technical support, problem solving, maintenance, modifications, and continuous improvement for automated machine tools and process control systems.

- Participate in the selection of components and control systems for testing, and modernization projects for new systems.

- Maintain knowledge and understanding of emerging hardware and software tools and techniques through continued self-learning.

- Design and create HMI / SCADA interfaces for shop floor machine tools.

- Design and create custom business applications to collect, analyze and report data critical to plant operations.

- Analyze application performance and debug and/or repair as necessary.

- Modify custom applications to accommodate new functionality needed to satisfy compliance or business requirements.

- Design reporting solutions and present a mock-up of the expected reporting output for review and approval.

- Convert legacy software applications to current technologies. (Ex. Visual Basic to VB.net)

Qualifications You Must Have:

- Advanced degree and 3 years of prior relevant experience; OR a Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of prior relevant experience; OR an Associate's degree with 8 years of project management experience OR in lieu of a degree, 10+ years of prior relevant experience.

- Minimum of two years automation programming experience with PLC and/or SCADA systems.