Controls & Electrical Engineering Manager: Industrial Automation

Connectly Recruiting; Bridgeview (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Connectly Recruiting is helping a long-established industrial equipment manufacturer in Bridgeview, IL hire a Controls & Electrical Engineering Manager. This on-site role leads a small team of engineers and supervisors while remaining the primary technical resource for electrical and controls across the plant.

You will run projects end-to-end, design production electrical/control systems, maintain HV/MV distribution, and ensure NEC/NFPA 70 compliance and food-safety standards.

Qualifications

• BSEE or 10+ years hands-on electrical project engineering experience in manufacturing.
• 7+ years electrical engineering in a manufacturing setting with design, controls and project work.
• Hands-on design skills: drawings, scope, load sizing, calculations.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical projects end-to-end: design, scope, budget, install, document, close.
• Design electrical/control systems for production machinery and building infra.
• Maintain and support the site’s medium and high voltage distribution.
• Serve as escalation point for production when electrical, PLC, or controls problems hit.
• Troubleshoot motor control centers, panels, SCADA, and automated lines.
• Keep plant electrical drawings current and ensure NEC, NFPA 70, local codes and food safety standards.
• Build electrical capital budgets, specs, RFQs, and BOMs for vendor quotes.

Skills

Electrical design

PLC troubleshooting

Project management

Leadership

Education

BSEE or equivalent

Tools

SCADA systems

MCCs & control panels

Electrical drawings

Job description

Connectly Recruiting is helping a long-established industrial equipment manufacturer in Bridgeview, IL hire a Controls & Electrical Engineering Manager. This on-site role leads a small team of engineers and supervisors while remaining the primary technical resource for electrical and controls across the plant.

You will run projects end-to-end, design production electrical/control systems, maintain HV/MV distribution, and ensure NEC/NFPA 70 compliance and food-safety standards.