Senior Controls Engineer – Sustaining

Company: Edwards Vacuum
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Overview

As a Senior Controls Engineer – Sustaining at Edwards, you will champion best-practice control and visualization software for Clevedon PC products. You’ll improve software development processes, write specifications, and support release and installation documentation. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to plan, monitor, and optimize software activities while driving quality and safe practices. This role offers hands-on impact on product reliability and process improvement in a high- tech manufacturing environment.

Pay / Benefits

  • Culture of trust and accountability
  • Lifelong learning and career growth
  • Innovation powered by people
  • Comprehensive compensation and benefits
  • Health and well-being

Responsibilities

  • Prepare software specifications
  • Follow test procedures and risk assessments to ensure safe software validation
  • Contribute to test document development and select appropriate test methodologies
  • Plan short-term actions and report progress
  • Contribute software plans to overall project planning and manage own priorities
  • Support development of controls engineering processes and assess quality issues
  • Create supporting documentation for software release and installation
  • Provide technical content for manuals, build notes and service instructions; review others’ content
  • Share knowledge and support colleagues to improve team capability

Key requirements

  • HND or degree in a relevant technical discipline (controls or software)
  • Minimum 5 years experience in controls and software within relevant industries
  • HMI programming using VB.net or other high level languages
  • Experience with compiling software
  • Knowledge of Modbus and EdCentra XML communications protocols
  • Creation of technical documentation
  • Administration of software configuration control tools, version numbering, release process and archiving
  • Familiarity with safety and design review methods (HAZOP, FMEA)
  • collaboration
  • problem-solving
  • attention to detail
  • VB.net or similar high-level language for HMI
  • software compilation
  • Modbus

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Posted: September 22nd, 2026