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Controls Engineer / Contract / Onsite / Lancaster, NY

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Lancaster, NYContract / Temporary$48.75–55.71/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$48.75–55.71/hr
Location
Lancaster, NY
Schedule
Contract / Temporary
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Cooling Controls Engineer will enable security across cooling control products throughout development and release. The role involves writing and modifying code in CAREL, PLC, and network management platforms, implementing security functionality, troubleshooting development issues, and supporting products through testing and secure release. This is an onsite, six-month W2 contract in Lancaster, New York. The posting requires at least three years of relevant controls experience and PLC coding experience; CAREL experience is preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Controls EngineeringCooling ControlsControls Software DevelopmentCode DevelopmentCARELPLC

Qualifications

3+ Years Controls Experience

Full job description

$48.75 - $55.71

Our client, a global specialist in energy management and automation solutions, is looking to hire a Cooling Controls Engineer. This is an onsite role based in Lancaster, NY.

This role is a 6-month W2 contract with benefits!

As a Cooling Controls Engineer, you will ensure security enablement across cooling control products, making sure security features are enabled within the development environment before products are released. Working directly within CAREL, PLC, and network management development platforms, you will write and modify code, implement security functionality, troubleshoot issues, and support products through testing and secure release.

What You Will Be Doing

  • Drive security enablement for cooling control products throughout the development and release lifecycle

  • Write, modify, and maintain code across CAREL, PLC, and network management platforms

  • Implement security-related changes and functionality within existing controls applications

  • Support the transition of products from development into release-ready configurations

  • Troubleshoot coding, controls, and integration issues arising during development

Required Skills & Experience

  • 3+ years of relevant controls engineering, cooling controls, or controls software development experience

  • Hands-on experience developing and writing code within development environments (CAREL preferred)

  • Demonstrated experience developing and writing code within PLC environments

Motion Recruitment Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,293 open Controls Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$48.75–55.71/hr
  • US median$39–50/hr152 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $52.23/hr, is 17% above the US median midpoint ($45/hr) — in the middle half of Controls Engineer hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 98 open Controls Engineer jobs in New York and 2,293 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
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 (1,949 postings).
Education
1,185 of the 2,293 open Controls Engineer jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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