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Controls Technician

Red Metals6 open roles

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12.9% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Red Metals postings stay open a median of 29 days.

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  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 58.5%60 days
This job: posted 28 hours ago

Red Metals median: 29 days open

The posting

Controls Technician

North Charleston, South Carolina

Onsite

About Red Metals

Red Metals is rethinking the domestic copper supply chain at a pivotal moment in American industry.

U.S. demand already exceeds domestic supply, and the gap is widening as grid modernization, the energy transition, and buildout of AI infrastructure accelerate. We are building a new model for this critical industrial layer in the United States.

Conventional refining moves copper through concentrate, matte, anode, and cathode before it becomes rod. We go straight from scrap to rod in one facility, using our integrated flowsheet that brings together shredders, mills, physical AI, and molten metal chemistry.

We are building our first production line in North Charleston, South Carolina: a $70M investment in the future of American-made copper.

The Role

We are looking for a Controls Technician to install, commission, and maintain the automation systems that run our first scrap-to-rod production line.

Our control systems are a mix of systems we build in-house and automation skids that come with our equipment. You will start during equipment installation and will work with our engineering team, vendors and subcontractors to install, commission, and start up all of our processes. After commissioning, you will be part of the team that supports keeping these systems running and improving them for our operations team. Over time, our goal is to build our plant ownership to include both the electrical hardware and the software side of the facility as a means to sustained career and technical growth.

You will be fully integrated into our controls team. Our controls team has a wide scope, covering electrical, instrumentation, and software. You will work day shift, hand in hand with our engineering team. As our first controls technician, you will wear many hats. This role suits technicians who want to learn fast, take ownership, and grow with the plant.

What You’ll Do

- Install, wire, and terminate control panels, field devices, and instruments

- Run I/O and loop checks, and support commissioning of in-house systems and vendor skids through our production ramp-up

- Lead, design, and own continuous improvement projects for our plant once the plant is stable

- Calibrate and maintain the instruments that measure process conditions and product quality

- Troubleshoot PLC, HMI, and Ignition faults on the line

- Write and change PLC, HMI, and Ignition logic; taking ownership of smaller systems over time

- Configure, maintain, and repair VFDs, motor controls, MCCs, and industrial networks

- Install and function-test safety devices and interlocks across the plant, from e-stops and light curtains to burner and combustion controls

- Build and run the preventive maintenance and calibration program for controls equipment

- Keep drawings, as-builts, spare parts lists, and documentation current

Red Metals Non-Negotiables

1. Bias for Action

We move fast. Speed beats polish. We use every tool, especially AI, to accelerate decisions, execution, and learning.

2. Grit

We do hard things because they matter. We keep pushing when others quit.

3. Ownership

We own outcomes, not tasks. We see problems, fix them, and follow through across functions.

4. Signal

We cut through noise. We communicate clearly and directly so decisions are fast and execution stays sharp.

5. Craft

We take pride in our work. Quality, care, and precision are the standard.

What We’re Looking For

- Associate degree or technical certificate in industrial electricity, electronics, instrumentation, or mechatronics, or military or apprenticeship training, or equivalent hands-on experience

- 2+ years of experience as a controls, I&E, or automation technician in an industrial plant

- Strong fundamentals in electrical systems, control circuits, and instrumentation, including the ability to read schematics, wiring diagrams, and P&IDs

- Hands-on experience troubleshooting PLCs (any platform), VFDs, and field instruments with meters, loop calibrators, and other test tools

- NFPA 70E training, or willingness to complete it in your first 90 days

- Experience working with vendors and subcontractors during installation or start-up

- Drive to learn new skills fast, including PLC programming, and take ownership of systems end to end

- Comfortable working on the plant floor near molten metal and heavy equipment, in FR PPE, on ladders and lifts, and lifting up to 50 lb

- Ability to operate with incomplete information and make sound decisions quickly

Strong Pluses:

- Background in metals, foundry, casting, recycling, or heavy industry

- Experience commissioning new plants or first-of-a-kind systems

- Experience with Siemens TIA Portal and Ignition

- Experience with machine vision or sorting equipment

- Python or other scripting experience

- Startup or early-stage experience

Why Red Metals

- Build a company from zero, not optimize an existing system

- Direct ownership of critical process and operational decisions

- Work on a problem that matters: rebuilding U.S. industrial capacity

- Small team, high trust, no bureaucracy

Location

This role is based in North Charleston, South Carolina and requires on-site work.

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