Electrical Controls Engineer

Weiss North America Inc Willoughby, Ohio, United States

Electrical Controls Engineer (Full-Time)

WEISS North America, Inc – Willoughby, OH (Cleveland, OH)

Job Description

WEISS North America is seeking a Controls Engineer with strong troubleshooting skills to support our products from build stage through customer integration. Our customers are machine builders and integrators connecting WEISS technologies into their own machine architectures, and they rely on our support by phone, video conference, and email to get that interface working. This is a hands‑on engineering role requiring the ability to work directly with electrical control systems, field devices, and automated machinery during assembly, commissioning, and customer support activities.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate depth in either the Rockwell or the Siemens ecosystem, with real comfort in networking, logic sequencing, and troubleshooting. Parallel skills must include safe electrical practice and sound engineering fundamentals, along with the patience and temperament to walk a customer through correcting a problem while their production line is down and timing is critical.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience of motion control components and controls, machinery, and factory automation equipment. The Controls Engineer must have a strong fundamental knowledge of control and electrical system design and its application in automated industrial designs. The ability to understand equipment integration and machine building is key in this position. This position does require travel for service, up to 15%.

• Full-time position
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance on the 31st day of employment
• 401K eligibility begins after the 60th day of employment
• Pay is bi-weekly
• Generous PTO policy

Pay Range: $90,000 - $115,000

Job Responsibilities – Electrical Controls Engineer

Troubleshooting & Customer Support

• Serve as a primary technical resource for Sales, production, and customers on controls, motion, and electrical issues
• Provide remote support to customer engineering teams integrating our units into their machine systems – drive setup, encoder feedback, homing, safety interfacing, and communication to their controller
• Diagnose faults across electrical, controls, drive, network, and instrumentation domains and drive them to resolution
• Perform root cause analysis and feed corrective action back into design, documentation, and the parent factory
• Travel to customer sites as needed for startup, commissioning, and escalated field issues
• Develop control panel layouts and enclosure designs; produce and revise schematics in AutoCAD Electrical, SOLIDWORKS Electrical, or equivalent
• Specify and verify wiring, motor connections, connectivity, grounding, and shielding for servo and VFD applications
• Power up, configure, and functionally test systems prior to shipment; execute and document Factory Acceptance Testing
• Support the production and assembly floor with test equipment and project-related electrical questions, issues, and failures

Controls & Motion Engineering

• Configure, program, and troubleshoot PLC logic and HMI applications
• Size and select motors, drives, and machine power distribution – transformers, overcurrent protection, and conductor sizing.
• Configure drives and encoder feedback (various coded incremental and absolute); perform tuning, homing, and network setup
• Following training from WEISS, become a key technical resource in W.A.S. (WEISS Application Software) for product support and controls offerings
• Work safely on and around systems operating up to 1000 V, including three-phase distribution and servo DC bus circuits; apply NFPA 70E practice, lockout/tagout, and stored energy…