Jobs in Kearny, NJ

About the role

The Control Systems Manager leads the day-to-day development, realization, integration, commissioning, and maintenance of control systems for Thea Energy's technology development programs. The scope includes prototype equipment, experimental test stands, and superconducting-magnet test facilities. The manager converts approved program and test requirements into safe, reliable, maintainable control and data systems. The manager directly supervises a multidisciplinary team that includes instrumentation engineers, embedded systems engineers, LabVIEW developers, software engineers, data management engineers, industrial controls engineers, technicians, and other specialists. The role combines people leadership, detailed delivery planning, systems engineering, and hands-on work in laboratory and field environments.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree or higher in electrical engineering, controls engineering, computer science, physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Six or more years of relevant engineering experience in integrated control systems, industrial automation, instrumentation, fast data acquisition, real-time systems, embedded systems, or test facility engineering.
• Three or more years of experience directly supervising engineers or serving as an engineering team lead with responsibility for work assignment, coaching, performance feedback, and team delivery.
• Demonstrated delivery of complex controls or test systems from requirements and design through implementation, validation, commissioning, and operational support.
• Strong systems engineering practice, including requirements management, interface definition, verification planning, design reviews, configuration control, and technical documentation.
• Strong foundation in machine protection and high-reliability design, including interlocks, alarms, permissives, fail-safe behavior, fault recovery, and disciplined testing.
• Working knowledge of instrumentation and electrical controls, including sensors, signal conditioning, grounding, shielding, isolation, calibration, and noise mitigation.
• Experience managing schedules, risks, resources, approved supplier work, and competing priorities across several development efforts.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly across physics, mechanical, electrical, software, safety, operations, and program teams.
• Willingness and ability to work directly with equipment in laboratory and field environments during integration, commissioning, and troubleshooting.
• LabVIEW, SCADA, distributed control systems, and operator interface development.
• Beckhoff TwinCAT, Allen Bradley, CODESYS, IEC 61131-3 practices, safety PLCs, and industrial I/O.

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