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# Controls Applications Engineer

- **Company:** Atlas Copco Group
- **Location:** Lyon Charter Township, MI, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Lifecycle Management, DeviceNet, Ethernet, Modbus, Process Control Systems, Kuka, Hardware Infrastructure
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/49acc0ad-cdda-4f81-ae98-1e306872762d

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree in Electrical/Automation/Industrial Engineering from an accredited four-year college or university; or a minimum 5 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
 * Knowledge of North American Safety and Energy regulations
 * Self-motivated individual to implement Atlas Copco standard products to meet the needs of our customers
 * Team player and broad-minded engineering background with a penchant for problem solving and decreasing waste
 * Ability to travel to customer sites and global engineering centers as required, approximately 5% annually; must possess or be able to obtain a valid passport
 * Solid IT, and organizational skills
 * Ability to represent the company externally in a highly professional and credible manner
 * Ability to work within teams on a applications/product base systems and interact with Application Management
 * Knowledge of hardware components comprising industrial control systems and their IEC schematic utilization
 * Knowledge of Industrial fieldbus communication standards (ProfiNet, EtherNET/IP, DeviceNET, Modbus, IO-Link)
 * Robot programming experience required i.e. Fanuc/Kawasaki/Janome/ABB/Kuka

## Description

The Controls Applications Engineer will be responsible for product specific focus to delivery timely, effective, and innovative solutions.

Your day-to-day

 * Update standard products and continuously innovate our industry leading technology
 * Interface with groups within organization as part of a global engineering organization to collect, understand, and complete deliverable requirements and escalated support requests
 * Electrical and pneumatic design and documentation of product components
 * Program internal and external devices to include PLC's, HMI's, servo drives, and robots
 * Interact with global design/operations/controls teams
 * Deliver and support all available product offerings
 * Understand and apply existing configurations to address customer's controls specifications
 * Support Proposal and Project Managers for the collection and impact review of technical specifications
 * Assist equipment operations with configuration and validation of supplied solutions to industry standards
 * Report internal or customer opportunities to the representative product company
 * Check and support application specific deliverables
 * Participate in projects to deliver customer applications directly