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Controls Engineer

Job in Sussex, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, 53089, USA
Listing for: Generac Power Systems Inc
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-14
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 110000 - 160000 USD Yearly USD 110000.00 160000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
We believe power is a promise - a shared commitment to be there for others when it matters most.

For more than 65 years, we've turned big ideas into solutions that help protect homes, strengthen businesses and build a more resilient, efficient, sustainable energy future.

Ready to Power a Smarter World with us?

Primary Purpose The Engineer IV – Controls (Staff Engineer) is responsible for providing expertise regarding new product development as well as continuous improvement of legacy systems. Day to day responsibilities include control design and tuning, simulation development, PLC programming, and electrical system integration. Additionally, candidates will facilitate product development through design, validation, and release.

Major Responsibilities Designs, validates, and brings new products to market.

Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates a variety of increasingly complex components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety.

Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans for a variety of increasingly complex products and/or components; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.

Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize increasingly complex designs for manufacturability.

Utilizes PLC programming proficiency to develop programming instructions for optimal machine operation.

Supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs).Acts as a resource to mentor and teach less experienced engineers.

Other duties as assigned.

Minimum

Job Requirements Education Bachelor  of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline;7+ years of relevant work experience

Certification / License Work Experience Knowledge / Skills / Abilities Designs, validates, and brings new products to market.

Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates a variety of increasingly complex components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety.

Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans for a variety of increasingly complex products and/or components; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.

Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize increasingly complex designs for manufacturability.

Utilizes PLC programming proficiency to develop programming instructions for optimal machine operation.

Supporting product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs).Acts as a resource to mentor and teach less experienced engineers.
· Other duties as assigned.

Preferred

Job Requirements Education Certification  / License Work Experience Ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy on multiple projects of increasing complexity

Proven expertise in developing control algorithms across diverse power control and power management applications;

Expertise in closed loop tuning control tuning, stability analysis, and performance optimization of advanced control algorithms;

Expertise in model-based design methodologies, including development of high-fidelity system simulations, automated design verification and production-ready auto code generation;

Experience in test & validation plan and procedure development…
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