Welcome to the powerhouse of global oral care product production. Our Morristown, Tennessee production plant is the high-velocity manufacturing engine behind Colgate-Palmolive's globally recognized, clinically trusted toothpaste and mouthwash brands. We don't just package products - we engineer everyday health essentials at a global scale.

As a Project & Controls Engineer in our state of the art production facility, you are the digital architect of our automated future. You will design, deploy, and optimize the advanced plant-floor control networks, robotics, and industrial information systems that keep our production lines moving flawlessly, safely, and efficiently. Balancing cutting-edge automation engineering with high-impact capital expense project management, you will bring complex capital projects from blueprint to reality; ensuring our flagship plant remains a world class center of manufacturing excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• System Design & Optimization: Spec, program, test, and commission plant-floor control systems, advanced instrumentation, and business network interfaces to drive peak asset utilization.

  
  

• Continuous Improvement Leadership: Spearhead engineering initiatives that maximize reliability, eliminate operational waste, elevate product quality, and champion world-class safety standards.

  
  

• Global Technology Transfer: Act as the plant’s automation ambassador, partnering with global technology teams to seamlessly scale and implement new capital projects and state-of-the-art controls processes.

  
  

• OT Cybersecurity & Maintenance: Proactively patch and update mission-critical manufacturing equipment to remediate vulnerabilities and protect our plant's operational technology infrastructure.

  
  

• Capital expense & operational expense Ownership: Lead multiple engineering projects across varying scopes and timelines. Drive strict adherence to project schedules, scope definitions, and cost controls while preparing and managing elements of the team's budget.

  
  

• Vendor & Resource Integration: Direct and collaborate with key internal teams and elite external partners, including specialized software integrators and hardware support vendors.

  
  

• Technical Documentation & Compliance: Maintain precise engineering specifications, validation protocols, and technical procedures that seamlessly align with Quality, Factory Performance & Reliability (FP&R), and EHS standards.

  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

  
  

• 3+ years in manufacturing/supply chain operations, with 2+ years of dedicated controls, systems engineering, and proportional, integral, and derivative tuning experience

  
  

• Deep expertise in the installation, startup, and programming of Allen-Bradley (ControlLogix) PLCs and the comprehensive Wonderware ecosystem (InTouch, InBatch, Industrial Application Server, InSQL Server, Active Factory, and MES Performance/Operations/Quality)

  
  

• Practical knowledge of electrical power distribution, Motor Controls (VFDs, standard starters), and industrial networking protocols (ControlNet, DeviceNet, Ethernet/IP, Profibus) alongside standard PC network setup and Cisco Switch configuration

  
  

• Proficient in plant-floor database management and web-based architectures (Microsoft SQL Server, InSQL, IIS, Thin Client Architecture) with the ability to build SSRS reports (Microsoft Report Builder, Visual Studio) and manage SAP-to-plant floor interfaces (xMii, VB, goods movement/warehouse transactions)

  
  

• Hands-on troubleshooting familiarity with manufacturing hardware (Load Cells, Mass Flow Meters, temperature/pressure sensors, valves, proximity/photo/servo controls) ideally within a cGMP environment adhering to DSCSA systems, Quality, and EOHS compliance standards.

  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering; MS in a technical field or MBA 

  
  

• Prior experience in cGMP manufacturing facility

  
  

• Working knowledge of EOHS and Quality standards