Full-Time
Controls Engineer 4
Updated on 9/9/2026
Alliance Automation
51-200 employees
Designs and integrates turnkey robotic systems
No salary listed
Van Wert, OH, USA
In Person
Travel to customer facilities is required for installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, training, and production support.
Bachelor's
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- An engineering or technical degree, related technical education, or equivalent technical education and work experience is required.
- Approximately 8 or more years of controls engineering or industrial automation experience is preferred, or equivalent demonstrated capability.
- Expert or advanced capability with at least one major programmable logic controller or programmable automation controller platform is required.
- Advanced experience with industrial automation and machine-control architecture is required.
- Strong experience integrating and supporting industrial robotics, machine vision, motion control, industrial networking, machine safety, and related automation technologies is required.
- Demonstrated ability to independently execute large, complex, or technically challenging automation projects is required.
- Demonstrated ability to solve high-complexity technical and equipment-performance problems is required.
- Experience developing machine-control architectures and integration strategies is required.
- Ability to identify technical and project-execution risks and develop effective mitigation strategies is required.
- Experience supporting controls concepts, feasibility reviews, technology selection, and labor estimating is required.
- Strong project-execution, analytical, and root-cause problem-solving skills are required.
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to engineers, leadership, customers, and other departments is required.
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to mentor and develop other engineers is required.
- Willingness to remain hands-on with programming, commissioning, and troubleshooting is required.
- Ability to adapt to shifting priorities and travel to customer facilities as required is required.
- Develop advanced machine-control architectures and integration strategies involving programmable logic controller and programmable automation controller systems, robotics, vision, motion control, industrial networks, machine safety, data systems, and other automation technologies.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for large, complex, or technically high-risk automation projects from concept through customer acceptance.
- Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and recovery efforts for projects experiencing significant technical, integration, or equipment-performance challenges.
- Identify technical risks, develop mitigation strategies, and support Applications and Project Management with automation concepts, feasibility reviews, technology selection, labor estimates, and technical-risk evaluation.
- Mentor and develop Controls Engineers while contributing to programming standards, reusable code, commissioning practices, engineering tools, and improvements that strengthen project execution.
- Lead controls execution for large, complex, or technically high-risk automation projects.
- Develop advanced machine-control architectures and system-integration strategies.
- Program and integrate complex programmable logic controller and programmable automation controller, human-machine interface, robotic, vision, motion, networking, safety, and data systems.
- Serve as a project-level technical resource for difficult automation problems.
- Lead troubleshooting and recovery of projects experiencing significant technical challenges.
- Lead root-cause analysis of difficult or recurring equipment issues.
- Identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Make independent technical decisions within established engineering standards.
- Support Applications and Project Management with technical concepts, feasibility reviews, technology selection, labor estimates, and risk evaluation.
- Lead code reviews and technical design reviews.
- Mentor and develop less-experienced Controls Engineers.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of programming standards, reusable code, commissioning practices, and engineering tools.
- Work across engineering disciplines to improve equipment performance, reliability, maintainability, and project execution.
- Lead controls activities during machine runoff, installation, commissioning, and customer acceptance.
- Professionally represent Alliance Automation during technically challenging customer interactions.
- Travel to customer facilities for installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, training, and production support.
- Approximately 8 or more years of controls engineering or industrial automation experience, or equivalent demonstrated capability.
Alliance Automation designs and builds turnkey robotic systems for manufacturers, guiding projects from concept through system integration. Its solutions cover custom robotic cells and complete production lines for processes like waterjet cutting, routing, dispensing, welding, and material handling, with control systems, PLC programming, HMI development, and UL 508A panels. The firm has niche expertise in automated pallet and wood processing equipment, including the Robotic Pallet Dismantler and The Urban Sawmill, serving automotive, consumer goods, food and beverage, and pallet recycling customers such as Whirlpool, Samsung, Dana, and Bridgestone. Its global footprint—headquartered with a large Van Wert facility, a 30,000-square-foot plant in León, Mexico, and expanding into Europe—helps manufacturers boost efficiency and reliability through tailored automation solutions.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Van Wert, Ohio
Founded
2010
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- March 18, 2026 patent grant strengthens waterjet differentiation in composites and fiberglass.
- June 2026 Automate presence broadens pipeline with industrial buyers seeking turnkey automation.
- Careers page says nearly 200 employees, signaling continued hiring and operational scale.
What critics are saying
- CHEP filed April 29, 2025 patent and contract claims in Florida; injunction risk.
- CHEP alleges Alliance served pallet refurbishers during a non-compete; core pallet revenues face disruption.
- Integration-heavy custom projects create execution risk if large customers like Whirlpool delay orders.
What makes Alliance Automation unique
- June 2026 Automate booth 26023 showcased custom robotic systems for manufacturers.
- January 6, 2026 patent 12,515,355 B1 protects its robotic waterjet-drill composite process.
- Van Wert, Ohio, and Flint, Michigan operations support concept-to-integration delivery.
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