Control Systems Engineer

At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us?

This role is part of Alcon's Engineering function, a team focused on improving quality, processes, products, packaging and materials across our business to help deliver brilliant outcomes.

The Control Systems Engineer (Science/Technology/Engineering Path) is responsible for providing hands-on engineering support for the design, development, programming, installation, modification, troubleshooting, validation, and continuous optimization of control system software and hardware supporting a manufacturing campus. This role supports facility and system modifications, coordinates with internal stakeholders and external vendors, manages contracts and small projects, and drives ongoing reliability and performance improvements for critical automation and control systems. Strong technical depth, analytical problem-solving skills, and expertise in regulated control system environments are essential.

Specifics Include:

- Design, program, install, modify, and maintain campus-wide automation and control systems supporting office, research, manufacturing, and remote warehouse operations. Systems include HVAC, environmental monitoring (temperature, humidity, pressure, particulate counts), and central energy plant chilled water and steam distribution.

- Provide daily operational support for automation and control systems, troubleshooting complex issues to ensure system reliability, data integrity, compliance, and minimal downtime.

- Perform advanced technical analysis to diagnose, optimize, and continuously improve control strategies, system performance, and project outcomes.

- Program, configure, and maintain PLC/PAC controllers and associated automation hardware and software.

- Design, implement and troubleshoot Ignition Perspective Graphics and Reports.

- Develop, execute, and document validation protocols (IQ and OQ) for automation systems in manufacturing and research environments, ensuring proper review and approval by Quality Assurance.

- Ensure high availability, cybersecurity, data integrity, and reliable backup/recovery for validated and business-critical automation systems and databases.