Senior Controls Engineer

Location: Baltimore, MD, US Req ID: 42129 Date: Oct 14, 2026 The ASR Group® family of companies make up the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar. The companies produce a full line of grocery, industrial, foodservice and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group® companies operate five sugar refineries, located in California, Maryland, Louisiana, Canada and Mexico. In Europe, ASR Group® companies operate sugar refineries in the United Kingdom, Portugal, and, with a joint venture partner, Italy. The companies also farm sugarcane and own sugar mills in Mexico and Belize. The ASR Group® portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Florida Crystals®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle's®, Sidul® and Whitworths®. ASR Group® companies also produce and market Tellus®, a single-use, compostable tableware and foodservice product made from plant fibers, including sugarcane. OVERVIEW The Senior Controls Engineer is the refinery’s technical authority for automation, instrumentation, industrial networking, and process control systems. This role ensures reliable, secure, and sustainable control infrastructure that supports production, quality, safety, environmental compliance, and operational excellence. The position partners with Corporate Controls Engineering, leads controls lifecycle and modernization strategies, and advances the site from reactive maintenance toward preventive, condition-based, and predictive practices. DETAILED ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES Technical Leadership and Governance Serve as the site technical authority for controls, instrumentation, industrial networks, and process automation. Lead system implementations, upgrades, and modifications in accordance with company, ISA, functional safety, cybersecurity, and hazardous-area requirements. Direct and mentor engineers, technicians, contractors, and cross-functional teams while promoting standardization and knowledge sharing across ASR. Establish and govern programming, alarm management, architecture, documentation, testing, validation, and cybersecurity standards. Asset Lifecycle, Reliability, and Spare Parts Develop and execute a multi-year controls and automation roadmap aligned with operational, maintenance, and capital priorities. Manage the lifecycle of PLCs, HMIs, historians, servers, operating systems, networks, instrumentation, and automation hardware. Identify obsolescence and criticality risks; develop modernization, replacement, stocking, replenishment, and vendor-supported spare-parts strategies. Maintain automation asset inventories and optimize costs while reducing exposure to obsolete or long-lead equipment. Predictive Maintenance and Continuous Improvement Lead preventive, predictive, and condition-based programs using PLC/VFD diagnostics, event logs, fault histories, network monitoring, historians, and asset management tools. Use plant data and analytics to identify degradation, improve reliability, and develop asset-health KPIs and dashboards. Lead root-cause investigations for controls and instrumentation failures and implement sustainable corrective actions. Partner with IT, OT, Maintenance, Procurement, and Corporate Controls Engineering to improve system performance, cybersecurity, data access, and asset visibility. Management of Change and Project Execution Own the controls Management of Change process and ensure modifications meet testing, validation, documentation, cybersecurity, and process-safety requirements. Provide controls and instrumentation expertise for capital projects, modernization work, commissioning, and major maintenance activities. Troubleshoot and optimize refinery, packaging, and auxiliary control systems; lead recovery after failures and prevent recurrence. Anticipate technical risks, provide on-call coverage, and support other engineers as needed. WORK EXPERIENCES 10+ years of controls, automation, instrumentation, or process-c…

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