# Controls Engineer (Power Generation) - Memphis

**Company**: SpaceXAI
**Location**: Memphis, TN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the power generation engineering team at SpaceXAI to design, commission, and maintain plant control systems. As a Controls Engineer, you will own BOP PLC/HMI and the control-room SCADA picture that brings generation and balance-of-plant into one operating view , Solar, 6000, and BOP on a single set of screens.

Responsibilities:

- Own BOP PLC and HMI design, programming, and commissioning for power generation balance-of-plant systems

- Design and maintain the plant SCADA architecture

- Develop control philosophy, control narratives, I/O lists, network drawings, cause-and-effect diagrams, and HMI/SCADA standards

- Specify PLC, HMI, SCADA, remote I/O, industrial networking, and interface hardware

- Program, test, and troubleshoot PLC logic and HMI applications

- Integrate OEM packages and third-party systems into plant SCADA

- Commission controls and support day-to-day operations

- Maintain configuration management for PLC/HMI/SCADA programs

- Coordinate with electrical, mechanical, fluids, protection, and operations teams

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, controls engineering, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline

- 3+ years of experience in PLC, HMI, and/or SCADA engineering

Preferred Skills and Experience:

- 5+ years in a controls role at a power plant, independent power producer, OEM, EPC, or heavy industrial facility

- Hands-on BOP PLC/HMI experience on gas turbine or similar generation projects

- Experience building a unified control-room SCADA/HMI

- Familiarity with major platforms and industrial networking

- Experience with IEC 61131 programming and protocols

- Experience across the project lifecycle

- Experience with alarm management, historian, and control-room graphics

- Working knowledge of how BOP controls interface with electrical power systems

- Experience managing OEM and contractor interfaces on multi-discipline power or capital projects

- Professional Engineering license, or actively working toward one

## Skills

### Required
- PLC
- HMI
- SCADA
- industrial control systems
- electrical engineering
- controls engineering
- computer engineering

### Nice to have
- gas turbine
- unified control-room SCADA/HMI
- IEC 61131 programming
- alarm management
- historian
- control-room graphics

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