Controls Engineer

About the Role

The Automation/Controls Engineer collaborates with Maintenance and Production teams to maximize safety and optimize rebar fabrication processes. Responsibilities include training team members across locations, troubleshooting and improving processes and equipment using engineering principles, developing and implementing hardware and software improvement plans, and providing support outside normal business hours as needed. • Train team members across locations to support consistent performance and knowledge sharing • Use engineering principles, algorithms, and techniques to troubleshoot and improve processes and equipment • Develop and implement improvement plans involving hardware and software systems • Provide support outside normal business hours, including flexible scheduling for overtime, weekends, and holidays • Assist with regional maintenance initiatives and support cross‑site collaboration • Travel regularly to other regional NRF locations to identify improvement opportunities, resolve issues, and share best practices

Key Responsibilities

• ▸team training
• ▸process troubleshooting
• ▸hardware improvement
• ▸software implementation
• ▸on‑call support
• ▸maintenance collaboration

What You Bring

The position requires regular travel to other regional NRF locations to identify improvement opportunities, resolve issues, and share best practices, while adapting to evolving responsibilities assigned by the area Supervisor/Manager. Safety is paramount at Nucor; candidates must be able to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times. Minimum requirements are a bachelor’s degree in process, electrical, automation engineering or a related field, or two years of industrial maintenance and automation experience. Preferred qualifications include aSa software experience and 2‑3 years in a reinforcing steel fabrication environment. The role may involve some heavy lifting and work in noisy, dusty, hot or cold conditions; frequent travel to regional branches is required. This is a safety‑sensitive, drug‑free position. • Adapt to evolving responsibilities assigned by the area Supervisor/Manager in response to operational needs

Requirements

• ▸travel
• ▸safety
• ▸bachelor's
• ▸asa
• ▸maintenance
• ▸steel fabrication

Benefits

Nucor provides top‑tier benefits, including medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, 401(k) and Roth accounts, profit sharing, performance bonuses, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, a stock program, scholarships, and more. These benefits are designed to support teammates and their families, offering financial security and growth opportunities. Compensation for the Automation/Controls Engineer starts at $82,000 plus negotiable based on experience, with weekly production bonuses and yearly profit‑sharing. The role also includes a competitive benefits package. • Paid weekly with bonus and profit sharing • Clearly defined career pathways with unlimited growth opportunities • Paid training, company‑provided uniforms and PPE • Paid vacation – 3 weeks after one year • Paid holidays – 10 per year plus one personal day • Parental leave • Tuition reimbursement – $5,250 per year for teammates, $2,625 for spouses • Scholarship program – $4,000 per year for each child of a teammate • Low‑cost medical, dental, vision after 30 days • Company‑paid life and disability insurance • Company matching 401(k) plan • Employee stock purchase plan – 10% company match

Work Environment

Onsite