Senior Electrical Controls Engineer OOJ

Job Description

A Senior Electrical Controls Engineer is a technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing electrical control systems, often within a specific industry like manufacturing or infrastructure. They lead projects, provide technical guidance, and ensure projects meet standards and regulations. This role involves a blend of engineering expertise, project management, and leadership.

• Designs, develops, constructs, and tests electrical control systems for manufacturing equipment and machinery.
• Responsible for electrical design, PLC and motion control programming, testing, and troubleshooting process issues on the production floor.
• Provides daily technical oversight and guidance to the manufacturing engineering team.

• Provide direction for electrical controls engineering standards throughout the manufacturing process.
• Produce project documentation including prints, engineering files, supplier communications, and Engineering Change Orders.
• Maintain electrical control systems on production equipment; design, develop, and test all aspects of electrical components, equipment, and machinery.
• Read schematics and layouts and support best design protocols and analysis.
• Provide production support to maintain quality, production output, and budgets.
• Troubleshoot and design solutions to improve equipment reliability.
• Collaborate with Operations, R&D, Quality, and outside suppliers during new product development stages.
• Manage a range of smaller to complex projects from concept to completion, develop timelines, and ensure project success.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electrical engineering technologies, or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in developing, programming, and testing electrical controls systems.

• PLC and motion control programming, testing, and debugging experience with Allen‑Bradley Compact Logix PLCs utilizing Ether Net/IP, IO‑Link, Mod Bus TCP, and discrete I/O.
• Experience developing HMI, PLC, and vision system programs from start to completion.
• Advanced skills in electrical engineering design tools, power distribution, testing, and data collection equipment.
• Advanced knowledge in designing, building, evaluating, and testing industrial electronic and electrical circuits and components.
• Experience with Keyence Vision, Turck HMIs, IAI Linear Actuators, and Fanuc 6‑axis robots (preferred).
• Strong troubleshooting skills for complex design, programming, and testing of electrical controls systems.
• Understanding of mechanics and basic mechanical skills.
• Technical writing, procedures, and manuals; reading and drawing schematics.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with customers, vendors, other engineers, machinists, assemblers, wiremen, technicians, and supervisors.
• High degree of flexibility and willingness to work on a wide variety of projects and tasks.
• Demonstrated creativity with strong analytical and technical expertise.

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