Engineering Manager

Uft; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco Controls, a UFT company, seeks an Engineering Manager to lead engineering resource planning and deliver technical leadership for panel design, PLC, SCADA/HMI, and commissioning. This on-site Sacramento role requires collaboration with Project Managers and manufacturing to ensure efficient, safe, and compliant project execution.

You will balance demand and capacity, assign engineers by capability, mentor staff, and contribute technically on major projects, traveling up to 10% as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• Typically 10+ years of industrial automation/systems-integration experience.
• Strong understanding of UL 508A, UL 891 and UL 845.
• Experience with SolidWorks or model-based design workflows.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a rolling view of engineering demand, capacity, capability, and project milestones across panel design, PLC, SCADA/HMI, networking/telemetry, FAT, and commissioning.
• Meet closely with Project Managers to assign resources, anticipate shortages, rebalance workloads, resolve conflicts, and support schedule recovery.
• Assign engineers based on demonstrated capability, development needs, project risk, and priorities beyond historical boundaries.
• Serve as a senior technical contributor on selected projects; perform engineering, technical review, troubleshooting, estimating support, FAT, or commissioning.
• Assess engineering capability and identify targeted training, mentoring, recruiting, and succession needs.
• Support development of a broad Automation Engineer workforce in which panel design is foundational and PLC/SCADA/networking skills overlap.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure panels are manufacturable and production-ready before customer submittal.
• Support matrix initiatives without creating a permanent parallel hierarchy.
• Use project performance data to improve future resource planning and technical execution.
• Participate in regular shop walks and maintain visibility of panels in fabrication, assembly, wire, test, FAT, and field execution.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Controls/Automation

PLC programming

SCADA/HMI

Industrial networking

Telemetry

3D design

Resource planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls/Automation Engineering, Mechanical Engineering with controls emphasis, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or related discipline

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

At Tesco Controls (a UFT company), our culture is grounded in the idea that the how we achieve results is just as important as the results themselves. Our winning behaviors guide the way we work, collaborate, and grow—both as individual employees and as a team. Our core winning behaviors are to Build Relationships, have a Relentless Drive for Results, to Communicate with Integrity and Focus, and to Be a Mentor, Teacher, Learner. These behaviors are more than words—they are the foundation of our success and continued growth.

Here, you’ll join a stable, growing company where your work directly supports cleaner water, stronger communities, and critical infrastructure across the country. If you want meaningful work, real growth opportunities, and a team that takes pride in doing the right thing—you’ll find it here.

The Engineering Manager is the operating resource leader for Tesco Engineering. The position ensures that the right technical capability is assigned to the right project at the right time, continuously balances engineering demand and capacity, and resolves cross-project resource constraints in close coordination with Project Management. After resource leadership, the Engineering Manager is expected to remain a senior technical contributor who performs substantive engineering work on projects in areas of personal strength.

This is intentionally not a traditional people-management position. Routine administrative supervision is limited to what is required for line accountability, performance documentation, capability assessment, and identification of development needs. Project Managers direct the engineers’ daily project tasks and schedule; technical SMEs provide project-specific technical leadership; the Engineering Manager keeps the resource system healthy and contributes technically.

This role will also be on site in our Sacramento office and will require travel up to 10% of the time.

• Maintain a rolling view of engineering demand, available capacity, capability, and key project milestones across panel design, PLC, SCADA/HMI, networking/telemetry, FAT, and commissioning.
• Meet closely and frequently with Project Managers to assign resources, anticipate shortages, rebalance workloads, resolve conflicts, and support schedule recovery.
• Assign engineers based on demonstrated capability, development needs, project risk, and business priorities rather than historical department boundaries.
• Serve as a senior technical contributor on selected projects; perform engineering, technical review, troubleshooting, estimating support, FAT, or commissioning in areas of expertise.
• Assess engineering capability and identify targeted training, mentoring, recruiting, and succession needs.
• Support development of a broad Automation Engineer workforce in which panel design is foundational and PLC, SCADA, networking, telemetry, testing, and commissioning skills overlap.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure engineered panels are manufacturable and production-ready before customer submittal and release.
• Support CTMO/Engineering Fellow matrix initiatives without creating a permanent parallel hierarchy.
• Use project performance, estimated-to-complete labor, rework, quality, and schedule data to improve future resource planning and technical execution.
• Participate in regular shop walks and maintain direct visibility of panels in fabrication, assembly, wire, test, FAT, and field execution.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls/Automation Engineering, Mechanical Engineering with controls emphasis, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or a closely related technical discipline; equivalent exceptional systems-integration experience may be considered.
• Typically 10+ years of progressively responsible industrial automation / systems-integration experience, including substantial direct engineering execution.
• Demonstrated strength in at least one of the following: electrical/control-panel engineering, PLC programming, SCADA/HMI, industrial networking/telemetry, systems architecture, or commissioning; working knowledge across the remainder.
• Strong understanding of UL 508A industrial control panels and practical familiarity with UL 891 switchboards and UL 845 motor control centers; ability to work effectively with UL-qualified manufacturing personnel.
• Experience with SolidWorks or comparable 3D/model-based electrical/mechanical design workflows; willingness and ability to operate in Tesco’s model-based engineering environment.
• Experience allocating technical resources across multiple concurrent projects and working with project managers in a matrix/project-delivery environment.
• Strong understanding of industrial electrical systems, control hardware, instrumentation, VFDs/motor controls, panel layout, wiring practices, industrial networks, FAT, startup, and field commissioning.
• Professional Engineer registration is valued where relevant but is not required for every candidate; technical credibility and demonstrated delivery performance are essential.

Join our team to innovate the future of water and wastewater. You’ll collaborate with coworkers who are the best and the brightest, challenge yourself on exciting work, and help build the best water and wastewater platform company in the U.S.

Tesco Controls is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. TESCO provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA andSection 503 rules)

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