
Senior Controls Technician
PITTSFORD, NYJob$36.17–48.93/hrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Senior Controls Technician performs field audits of customer electrical and controls systems and works with engineering teams to align findings with project scopes. The role also supports early installation, demolition, pre-commissioning, commissioning, testing, system start-up, and post-Go-Live customer support on brownfield projects. The posting estimates base pay at $36.17–$48.93 per hour and expects travel to customer sites approximately 80% of the time.
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High Level Summary of Responsibilities: The Controls Technician (CT) would spend most of their traveling time in the field completing audits for the engineering team. The CT would receive audit packets from a controls project engineer and would travel to site, complete the audit, and interface and communicate with the engineering team as needed. The CT would also assist in the early portions of installation, working with the installation leads to review the existing control infrastructure and help plan an efficient demolition and start to installation. A good candidate for this role would be an experience PreComm Technician that might be interested in working more closely to the engineering and design side of projects.We offer: * Career Development * Competitive Compensation and Benefits * Pay Transparency * Global OpportunitiesLearn More Here: Logistics and Supply Chain Careers at Dematic This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $36.17- $48.93 per hour at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.Tasks and Qualifications: What You Will Do in this Role: * Audits: * Perform comprehensive electrical and controlssystem audits at customer sites. * Assess and document Legacy (point to point) and distributed controls architectures, including Ethernet, Asi, CAN, Profibus and other fieldbus networks. * Evaluate controls power distributions systems * Verify proper configs and performance of Ethernet-based industrial networks (managed and unmanaged switches, Hirschman, AB ) * Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or risks in existing controls equipment relative to the defined controls scope * Collaborate with internal project engineering teams to align audit results with project scopes. * Interface directly with customers to clarify requirements and support follow-up actions. * Prepare clear, detailed technical documentation and audit reports * Commissioning Support: * Support commissioning support to the Electrical and Mechanical installation teams on active brownfield projects, supporting demolition and pre-commissioning activities. * Seek advice and guidance from controls project engineering leads on non-routine or more complex equipment and areas of the system * Identify problems as they occur and take appropriate steps to solve them * Provide regular Commissioning status/progress updates to Dematic leadership * Support on-site Reliability, Performance, and Volume Testing, System Start-up, Go-Live, and post Go-Live customer support for Dematic projects What We are Looking For: * Associate's or Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology preferred (Electrical Engineering or Mechatronic Engineering preferred) * 3-5 years of successful experience in a related field experience. * Willingness to travel to customer sites (approximately 80%) * Experience in brownfield projects at customer sites * Experience with Allen-Bradley PLC based control systems * Experience with Bihl and Wiedermann software tools (Asi Controls Tools, ASIMON) * Proven ability to work independently in the field with minimal supervisioin * Strong customer facing communication skills. * In-dept understanding of centralized and distributed controls architectures. * Working knowledge of industrial fieldbus networks and software tools * Ethernet * Profibus * Profinet * CAN * Hirschman Hi-vision * Knowledge of safety systems and standards (NFPA79, UL) * Solid understanding of controls power distribution systems * Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics and other controls documentation. * Demonstrated basic knowledge of
How this job compares
Set against the 457 open Controls Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$36.17–48.93/hr
- US median$33–48/hr217 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $42.55/hr, is close to the US median midpoint ($42/hr) — in the middle half of Controls Technician hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 21 open Controls Technician jobs in New York and 457 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc.3 open
- BorgWarner Inc.2 open
- Corning Incorporated2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Controls Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (354 postings).
- Education
- 7 of the 457 open Controls Technician jobs (2%) 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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