Automation Engineer
Interested in growing your engineering career with a leading privately held and growing manufacturer of custom capital equipment solutions?
Are you an automation engineering professional with project leadership and electrical design/controls development/programming experience?If you are ready to take the next step career wise, let's connect to discuss this career advancing opportunity!
Our client is a leading privately held and growing manufacturer that provides innovative solutions to a wide variety of clients within the packaging industry. In this automation engineering role, you will be responsible for full spectrum automation engineering tasks from concept to hand off to the production floor. Client Overview- A growing, profitable, and diversified privately held organization that specializes in providing innovative solutions to clients in the packaging industry
- For more than 50 years, our client has built a reputation for engineering innovation and for providing flexible and responsive solutions to the packaging industry
- Based in suburban Chicago with a growing manufacturing footprint
Position Overview
- As subject matter expert, lead projects with responsibility for planning and scheduling in a cross functional setting
- Improve existing products and processes while offering solutions to expand product line
- Design electrical schematics using AutoCAD Electrical
- Design, develop and program PLC, HMI, and motion controls from scratch
- Develop new electrical designs for both standard and custom equipment
- Develop software for robotic systems
- Oversee project panel builds and if required build electrical panels from the ground up
- Develop and set up vision systems for applications such as angle detection, orientation detection, and feature detection using various tools
- Ability to travel periodically for startups, installations, and to resolve field issues
Candidate Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- At least 5 years experience of automation and controls engineering
- Interest in being part of a team oriented setting while contributing to a positive company culture
- Proficiency programming Allen Bradley controls
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without restrictions
Be assured that resumes will be kept strictly confidential until we speak about a specific opportunity and agree to send it to a client of ours. If your experience matches our client's requirements, we will contact you immediately.
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