[Hiring] Controls & Startup Engineer @Seven Seas Water Corporation

Role Description

This is a high-travel field engineering role — expect up to 75% travel to project sites and operating plants in the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America, often for consecutive weeks at a time. The role is fully remote when not traveling; however, candidates must reside in the Eastern or Central time zone and within reasonable proximity to a major airport to support site schedules and travel logistics.

The Controls & Startup Engineer is the hands-on automation lead in the field for the commissioning, startup, and ongoing support of Seven Seas Water’s water treatment and desalination plants. This is not a troubleshoot-only position: the successful candidate writes, modifies, and commissions PLC and HMI code — authoring new routines, restructuring logic, and building operator screens — in addition to diagnosing and resolving electrical, controls, instrumentation, and network issues on live plants.

The ideal candidate is a jack-of-all-trades field engineer: comfortable going online with a running PLC one hour and pulling wire diagrams, landing terminations, or configuring a managed switch the next. Experience in seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) or brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) desalination is a plus, but not required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on PLC programming: Demonstrated ability to write PLC programs from scratch.
• 5+ years of industrial controls experience in field service, commissioning, startup, or plant support roles.
• Experience with Allen-Bradley Logix platforms (Studio 5000 / RSLogix 5000) and FactoryTalk View, or equivalent depth on Siemens/Schneider platforms.
• Working knowledge of industrial networking: EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP, IP addressing, managed switches, and secure remote access.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics, P&IDs, loop diagrams, and panel layouts.
• Experience safely working on energized and de-energized industrial electrical equipment (480 V and below).
• Strong instrumentation fundamentals: 4–20 mA loops, transmitters, control valves, and analytical instruments.
• Willing and able to travel up to 75%, including international travel to the Caribbean and Latin America for consecutive weeks; valid U.S. passport (or ability to obtain one).
• Must reside in the U.S. Eastern or Central time zone, within reasonable proximity to a major airport.
• Self-directed and resourceful — able to represent the company alone on a remote site.
• Strong communication skills with operators, contractors, customers, and engineers at all levels.

Requirements

• PLC programming: Program, modify, commission, and troubleshoot Allen-Bradley Logix PLC systems using Studio 5000.
• HMI/SCADA: Develop, modify, and commission FactoryTalk View SE/ME applications.
• Startup and commissioning: Lead the electrical and controls portions of plant startups.
• Industrial networking: Configure and troubleshoot plant control networks.
• Panel modifications: Perform and supervise field modifications to industrial control panels.
• Electrical maintenance: Safely maintain, troubleshoot, and repair plant electrical equipment.
• Troubleshooting: Diagnose electrical, controls, instrumentation, and communication failures.
• Documentation: Redline drawings in the field and return accurate as-built markups.
• Remote support: Provide remote troubleshooting support to plant operations teams.
• Operator training: Train plant operators and technicians on control system operation.
• Contractor coordination: Work directly with electrical contractors and customer personnel.
• Continuous improvement: Feed field lessons learned back to the engineering team.
• Other related duties may be assigned as required.

Company Description

Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) is a portfolio company owned by investment funds managed by EQT. Headquartered in Tampa, with operations across the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America, SSWG delivers annually over 20 billion gallons of water to various customers. SSWG designs, builds, owns, and operates water treatment and desalination facilities, optimizing project risk transfer between the public and private sectors.

SSWG operates two businesses within the water infrastructure space: Seven Seas Water and the AUC Group, which provides decentralized water and wastewater treatment plants.

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies, managing over EUR 273 billion in total assets. EQT has a strong corporate culture guided by values of long-term ownership and positive impact.