Controls Engineer
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Insight Global is seeking a Controls Engineer to support utility-scale power and renewable energy projects from design through commissioning and deployment. The role reviews controls and network designs, electrical drawings, signal mappings, and vendor deliverables, and serves as a technical resource for customers, EPCs, utilities, and equipment vendors. It also supports commissioning, troubleshoots controls and network communication issues, and resolves technical challenges through field deployment.
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Job Description
Insight Global is seeking a Controls Engineer to support utility-scale power and renewable energy projects from initial design through commissioning and deployment. This individual will review controls and network designs, electrical drawings, signal mappings, and vendor deliverables while serving as a technical resource across customers, EPCs, utilities, and equipment vendors.
The Controls Engineer will also support commissioning activities, troubleshoot controls and network communication issues, and help resolve technical challenges as projects move from design into field deployment. The ideal candidate has a strong combination of power systems, industrial controls, SCADA, and networking experience and is comfortable owning technical issues through resolution.
Skills and Requirements
3+ years of controls/electrical engineering experience in power generation, renewables, or similar industrial power systems Experience with SCADA/plant control systems and closed-loop power controls, including frequency and voltage control Hands-on experience with Modbus, DNP3, and industrial networking Strong understanding of TCP/IP, IP addressing, subnetting, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and network troubleshooting Experience with power systems and controls troubleshooting, including exposure to substations, protective relays, transformers, and/or PLC-based systems Eligible to travel up to 10% of the time BESS or other inverter-based resource (IBR) experience Experience with solar, EMS, PPCs, PCS/inverters, fuel cells, or gas turbines Utility-scale commissioning experience
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 2,421 open Controls Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$135–190K/yr161 salary ranges
- US median$38–57/hr188 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 213 open Controls Engineer jobs in California and 2,421 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Controls Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,053 postings).
- Education
- 1,185 of the 2,421 open Controls Engineer jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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