- A four-year university degree in Electrical Engineering or Controls Engineering, two or more years of PLC programming experience and four or more years of electrical equipment design experience are all required to be considered
- Travel is up to 15% mostly within the domestic United States
- Pay up to $110,000
- Must be a United States citizen or Green Card holder
- No remote
- Full-time
- Permanent W-2 employee
- Full benefits
- No relocation
- Waukesha, Wisconsin area
This employee-oriented, family-oriented, customer-oriented, custom industrial automation certified systems integration company is hiring a full time, permanent Custom Electrical and Controls Project Automation Engineer. They seek out employees that love technology and technology here is on the leading edge. Employees are never bored here as every project is custom and unique. Products are created that have never been created before. Creativity and continuous learning are valued and promoted. The employees here are very creative and they put a lot of R&D into projects. They have a strong corporate culture and employees are not viewed as a number. Management makes work/life balance a priority. Engineers get to see their unique projects being built on the shop floor.
There are advancement opportunities and this could grow into management, if that is of interest. Duties and responsibilities of the successful candidate will include the following:
- Managing automation projects from start-to-finish
- Being the electrical engineering expert
- Evaluating customer needs
- Creating quotes
- Creating prototypes
- Determining automation project requirements and risks
- Designing custom industrial automation machines
- Designing electrical controls, electrical hardware and electrical power distribution
- Testing
- Programming Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)s
- Wiring when needed
- Liaising between mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, manufacturing employees, customers and supplier
- Traveling up to 15% with almost all being in the domestic United States
The background of the successful candidate must include the following to be considered for this position:
- A four-year university degree in Electrical Engineering or Controls Engineering
- Four or more years of electrical equipment design experience
- Two or more years of PLC programming experience
- Possess the ability to travel up to 15% mostly within the domestic United States
- Possess a solid work history
- Being a US citizen or green card holder
- Having a residence within a 45 minute drive