Lead Custom Project Automation Electrical Controls Engineer - pay to $120K

Lead Custom Project Automation Electrical Controls Engineer

This full-time, permanent Lead Custom Project Automation Electrical Controls Engineer is at an employee-oriented, custom automation machinery engineering and manufacturing company. The company takes designing custom automation equipment to a new level. The engineering group consists of six engineers, allowing for a significant impact on projects. Engineers here enjoy the challenges of creating custom automation systems and can see their designs being manufactured on the factory floor. The company promotes from within.

Position Details:

• Pay is up to $120,000
• Must be a United States citizen or Green Card holder
• No remote work
• Full-time, permanent W-2 employee
• Full benefits
• No relocation assistance
• Brown Deer, Wisconsin area

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Creating designs for custom automation
• Coordinating, overseeing, and mentoring multiple engineers on projects
• Ensuring technical performance and profitability
• Programming and designing custom PLCs
• Ensuring proper functioning of electric, pneumatic, hydraulic, and programming for each assigned project
• Taking projects from concept through field commissioning
• Interacting with PLC's, OIT's, robots, servos, vision systems, instrumentation, and control devices
• Utilizing AutoCAD

Minimum Requirements:

• Six or more years of custom automation programming and design experience
• Six or more years of HMI and PLC programming and design experience
• Experience with robotics and servos
• Experience coordinating multiple engineers on projects
• Strong knowledge of designing, building, implementing, debugging, and troubleshooting factory floor automation
• Strong AutoCAD experience
• Strong schematics creation experience
• Strong electrical engineering experience including component specification, sizing, panel layout, servos, AC/DC drives, networks, and so on
• Possess a solid work history
• Residence within a 45-minute drive