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Electrical Controls Specialist

New Century, KS 66031

Posted: 04/06/2026 Employment Type: Direct Hire Job Category: Engineering Job Number: 804088

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Position Title: Electrical Controls Specialist

Wage: Based on Experience

Accelerate Professional Talent Solutions has a great opportunity available for a Electrical Controls Specialist at a company in New Century, KS. This is a direct hire position. Apply today!

Electrical Controls Specialist Responsibilities:
- Develop long range plans, conceptual designs, and capital outlay requirements and documentation for electrical equipment
- Formulate and coordinate program specifications, requirements for proposals and contracts and associated documents
- Inspect construction and installation progress to ensure conformance to established specifications
- Troubleshoot and determine root cause of faulted process and packaging instrumentation and electrical devices, including programmable logic controllers (PLC’s) and associated I/O modules
- Understand and troubleshoot PLC, human machine interface (HMI), batching systems and data collection system software
- Perform software modifications to existing packaging machinery and process system PLC’s, HMI’s, Batching and Data Collection systems
- Perform all duties safely, follow all safety guidelines, and actively participate in site safety programs
- Relevant training in Arc Flash NFPA 70E training and ability to train others in the requirements.
- Confer with team members in other departments to provide technical information
- Participate in meetings, seminars, and training sessions to stay apprised of new developments in field
- Understand and troubleshoot process instrumentation such as pressure, mass flow, temperature and conductivity sensors and transmitters

Requirements for Electrical Controls Specialist:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or mechanical engineering, or other relevant discipline required.
- 3 to 5 years of relevant experience
- Experience in programming Allen-Bradley Control Logix, SLC 5’s, and PLC 5’s programmable logic controllers utilizing Rockwell’s RSLogix 5000, RSLogix 500 and RSLogix 5 software, including advance program features such as PID loops, message instructions, produce-consume tags, motion instructions, file instructions, compare instructions, and Phase Manager interface
- Programming and troubleshooting knowledge for Wonderware components
- Understanding of operating principles of AC and DC motors, including variable frequency drives (VFD’s), inverters, servo motors
- Ability to configure VFD’s and servo motor controllers using appropriate software
- Experience / knowledge of Allen Bradley Power Flex 4, 40, 70, 700, 755 and 525 variable frequency drives preferred
- Experience in installing, troubleshooting and maintaining communication networks such as DeviceNet, ASI, Fieldbus, Modbus, Hart, and Ethernet
- Experience in installing, troubleshooting and maintaining hardware associated with 480VAC Voltage switchgear, transformers, motors and motor control centers (MCC’s)
- Advanced skills in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, CAD/CAM systems and PowerPoint
- Ability to work and thrive under time constraints and juggle/prioritize responsibilities
- Highly organized
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible
- Entrepreneurial drive and the desire to “build a business”
- Passionate, outgoing, energetic, and results oriented personality
- Overall confidence in one abilities and comfortable communicating the facts
- Smart, creative and inquisitive
- Disciplined approach, and accountable for KPIs
- Dependable team player with positive attitude
- Willingness to work outside their normal hours in an emergency and planned downtime for the plant

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