Date Posted: 11/05/2025
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 491021
Industry: Government/Staffing
Job Title: Communications Controls Engineer
Job Location: Newark, NJ, USA, 07105
Work Model: Onsite
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 7
Min Hourly Rate($): 70.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 90.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: Communications, Design, Ethernet, HMI (Human Machine Interfaces), Modbus, PLC (Programmable Logic Controller), SCADA, TCP/IP
Experience Desired: Design, development, programming, and field commissioning experience (5 yrs); Reading PLC Ladder Logic, Tags, and Scripts (5 yrs); Industrial communications protocols, such as Modbus, Ethernet/IP, serial comms and ARINC (5 yrs)
Job Description
*** Only qualified IT/ Communications Controls Engineer candidates currently located in the Trenton, NJ area will be considered due to the position requiring an onsite Presence***
Required Skills:
• Experience in design, development, programming, and field commissioning experience (5 Years)
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical documents, including P&IDs, sequence of operations, technical specifications, etc. (5 Years)
• Experience with industrial communications protocol, such as Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP, DNP3.0, Ethernet/IP, serial comms (RS-485, RS-232, and CAN), and ARINC (5 Years)
• Reading PLC Ladder Logic, Tags, and Scripts (5 Years)
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations (5 Years)
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence (5 Years)
• Ability to set up a database historian (5 Years)
The IT/Communications Controls Engineer will maintain systems of electrical and automated controls for machines, processes, substations, and the railroad control center. This role emphasizes PLC, HMI, SCADA, and system integration, which are core to the position.
Job Duties:
• Maintain systems of electrical and automated controls for machines, processes, sub-stations, and the railroad control center
• Program, upload, and download PLC, HMI, and SCADA codes for backup and achieving
• Select hardware and formulate an engineering design based on project requirements
• Reviews system design for compliance with engineering best practices, appropriate regulations and codes, company standards, contract requirements, and related specifications
• Formulates and performs factory acceptance test plans for completed systems
• Performs site acceptance tests at client job sites
• Provides PLC and HMI programming field support and troubleshooting
• Assist Lead Systems Engineer with controls, SCADA design, FAT scheduling, requirements writing, testing, and design review for projects
• Assist Lead Systems Engineer in cost estimation, scope of work, procurement, and project execution
• Provides project management assistance for control systems and SCADA
• Directs and coordinates the operation, maintenance, and repair of equipment and systems on field installations
• Use Microsoft Office products to perform engineering and project management tasks
• Set up and install Communications Fujitsu Servers, Switches, Protocol Converters, Firewalls, and Modems
• Perform assessments and gather data at existing substations, regarding the existing communication equipment life cycle
• Develop design/requirements of communications systems for substations, including fiber optics, telecom racks, ethernet switches, alarms, HMI and SCADA systems, cabinet elevations, communications block diagrams, and communications towers and raceways
• Implements sound cybersecurity architecture and configurations on substation devices. Applies North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) compliance requirements.
• Create SCADA point lists and remote terminal unit (RTU) programs, to be reported through human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and the Control Center
• Prepare Substation Automation System (SAS) panel interconnections and outdoor equipment wiring and communications cabling, and raceways
• Prepare cable schedule
• Develop bill of materials and nameplate schedule
• Review internal communications designs and external design drawings
• Initiating new, creative ideas.
• Having a willingness to be flexible - adapting to new paths
• Strong problem-solving/troubleshooting practices.
• Able to manage multiple projects.
• Being a team player and working cross-functionally
• Managing resources and relationships - internally and externally
• Consistently evaluating processes, automating, and recommending changes when appropriate
• Supporting all business operations, value in - value out
• Adapting, realizing workflow can, will change as our business grows
• Communicating throughout the organization
• Be visionary and able to share that vision with the team members, planning for alternatives
Benefits:
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