Controls Engineer II, Sustaining Engineering

Your Impact at LILA

Lila is seeking a Controls Engineer on our Sustaining Engineering team to support the reliability and lifecycle performance of automated scientific equipment across our lab operations environment. This role works on deployed automation systems, including integrated robotics, PLCs, SCADA, instrumentation, and connected equipment.

You will troubleshoot multi-disciplinary issues, maintain and improve controls infrastructure, and support upgrades that keep laboratory workflows running reliably. The work spans incident response, preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, vendor software integration, documentation, and system lifecycle management.

This is an execution-focused engineering role for someone who enjoys hands-on problem solving in complex lab automation environments. Success means improving uptime, reducing recurring faults, and helping automation systems become safer, more reliable, and easier to maintain over time.

What You'll Be Building

• Maintain and improve deployed PLC, SCADA, and robotics control systems.
• Troubleshoot incidents across controls, robotics, instrumentation, networking, and integrated equipment.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement fixes that reduce recurring faults.
• Update wrappers conne