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Powering the world. Protecting its most vital resources. What if your next engineering challenge helped modernize some of North America's most critical power generation assets?
Emerson Power & Water Solutions is a global leader in power and water automation, trusted across more than 60 countries and supporting over 1.4 million MW of generating capacity worldwide. As power producers work to modernize aging infrastructure, improve reliability, and strengthen grid resilience, Emerson engineers are helping shape the future of power generation through advanced automation and control technologies.
Emerson is seeking a Senior Controls Engineer - Gas Turbine Solutions to join our team in Latham, NY.
This is not a role focused on maintaining existing systems. It is an opportunity to solve complex control challenges, modernize legacy turbine controls, and develop innovative automation solutions for power generation facilities across North America. You will work on high-impact gas turbine retrofit projects utilizing Emerson's industry-leading Ovation™ Distributed Control System (DCS) platform, helping customers improve reliability, operational flexibility, and long-term performance.
You'll join a highly specialized engineering team where technical expertise is valued, ideas are welcomed, and engineers are empowered to influence project outcomes. Whether you're developing advanced control strategies, leading customer design discussions, troubleshooting commissioning challenges, or helping define engineering best practices, your work will directly impact critical infrastructure that millions of people depend on every day.
If you enjoy solving difficult technical problems, working alongside experienced controls professionals, and seeing your engineering solutions deployed in real-world operating power plants, we'd love to hear from you.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of gas turbine control system solutions for modernization and retrofit projects.
- Apply expertise in turbine control philosophy, startup sequencing, combustion control, fuel management, protection systems, and operational optimization.
- Develop, configure, document, and test control logic, automation applications, and operator interface solutions utilizing Emerson's Ovation™ platform.
- Serve as a technical resource throughout the project lifecycle, supporting engineering design, customer reviews, testing activities, commissioning, and startup.
- Collaborate directly with customers, project managers, field engineers, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver successful project outcomes.
- Diagnose and resolve complex control system and operational issues using real-world plant data and engineering analysis.
- Lead and participate in Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), system integration activities, and onsite commissioning efforts.
- Support the continuous improvement of engineering standards, software libraries, testing methodologies, and best practices.
- Provide technical mentorship and knowledge sharing within the engineering organization.
- Help customers navigate modernization strategies by contributing technical expertise and practical operational insight.
Who You Are:
You build effective working relationships and collaborate openly across teams. You communicate technical information clearly and seek to understand customer needs. You take ownership of your work, follow through on commitments, and approach challenges with curiosity and a desire to learn. You value feedback and actively develop your technical and professional skills.
For This Role, You Will Need:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, related STEM field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 5+ years of experience in controls engineering, automation, power generation, or a related industrial environment.
- Experience designing, configuring, testing, or commissioning industrial control systems.
- Understanding of control logic development, process automation principles, and troubleshooting methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical problems, identify root causes, and develop effective solutions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to travel up to 20% throughout North America to support customer projects.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 (including those with OPT or CPT), H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible.
Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Experience supporting gas turbine, combustion turbine, combined-cycle, or thermal power generation facilities.
- Experience with Emerson Ovation™, GE Mark VIe™, Siemens SPPA-T3000™, ABB Symphony™, Foxboro™, or other power generation control platforms.
- Knowledge of gas turbine control philosophies, including startup sequencing, combustion control, fuel management, load control, turbine protection systems, and performance optimization.
- Experience leading software testing, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), commissioning, startup, or other customer-facing technical activities.
- Experience with control system integration, application development, system validation, and troubleshooting in industrial automation environments.
- Knowledge of power plant modernization, retrofit projects, and critical infrastructure industries.
- Experience serving as a technical lead, mentoring engineers, or providing technical guidance across project teams.
Our Culture & Commitment to You: At Emerson, we prioritize people, progress, and purpose. We foster a culture where collaboration, respect, and diverse perspectives drive better outcomes for our customers and communities. Employees are supported through ongoing learning opportunities, exposure to complex and impactful projects, and clear pathways for technical and professional growth. Based in the Greater Pittsburgh area, this role offers the stability of a long term engineering career combined with the opportunity to work on systems that power communities and industries. Emerson is committed to creating an inclusive environment where every individual feels valued, heard, and empowered to do their best work.
We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing and provide flexible, competitive benefits plans to support you and your family’s physical, mental, financial, and social needs. These include a variety of medical insurance plans, dental and vision coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition programs, and more. Our culture supports flexible time off, including paid parental leave for all parents, vacation, and holiday leave.
Our compensation philosophy is simple: we pay a competitive base salary, within the local market in which we operate, and reward performance during our annual merit review process. The salary range for this role is $90,100-128,700 annually, commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role.
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WHY EMERSON
Our Commitment to Our People
At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.
We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.
At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.
Work Authorization
Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.
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ABOUT EMERSON
Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.
With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.
We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team – let’s go!
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