PLC Controls Engineer - EMERSON - JPA2025

ZipRecruiter; South Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A top-tier organization is looking for a PLC Controls Engineer to oversee electrical controls systems. This role includes maintaining safety programs, supervising facility systems, and collaborating with internal teams for improvements. Candidates should have a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and strong experience in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or equivalent education.
• 3+ years working in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong PLC knowledge and experience with automation control systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enforce safety programs.
• Supervise facility systems.
• Solve multiple manufacturers electrical components.

Skills

Electrical controls capabilities

PLC knowledge

Ability to connect equipment input/output data

Knowledge of NFPA 70 electrical codes

Statistical process control methodology

Lean manufacturing principles

Education

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering

Tools

Wonderware(AVEVA)

Movicon

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Description

Job Title:Engineering - PLC Controls Engineer
Location : South Milwaukee, WI
Contract Duration: Direct Hire

Are you an engineering professional eager to advance your career? , a top-tier organization, presents an outstanding opening for a PLC Controls Engineer! This roleoffers a fantastic chance to improve and oversee electrical controls. You'll collaborate with internal teams, corporate IT support, and external contractors, playing a pivotal role in refining and sustaining these systems. Relocation assistance provided for a successful candidate.

IN THIS ROLE, YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL BE:

• Maintain and enforce safety programs to ensure a safe environment for all employees.
• Supervise facility systems utilizing various computer software programs.
• Take ownership and give new insights to electrical control systems including PLC data collection and display.
• Solve multiple manufacturers electrical components and input/output devices.
• Provide electrical planning assistance in multiple capital projects.
• Assist maintenance team in troubleshooting equipment issues.

WHO YOU ARE:
You find and champion creative ideas and actively move them into implementation; moving beyond traditional ways of doing things and pushing past the status quo. You seek innovative ways, asking the right questions and acquiring data from multiple sources to accurately analyze problems and identify efficient solutions. You excel at short-term and long-term scope project planning with electrical systems. You rely on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions. You relate comfortably with people across levels, functions, and cultures; understanding interpersonal and group dynamics to engage in an effective manner.

FOR THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED:

• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or equivalent education with solid, validated history of electrical controls capabilities
• Relevant years of proven experience in a manufacturing environment with automation control systems commensurate with the level of this position.
• Strong PLC knowledge with understanding of multiple manufacturing systems
• Ability to connect equipment input/output data into facility computer monitoring system.
• Knowledge of NFPA 70 electrical codes
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now and in the future.

QUALIFICATIONS THAT SET YOU APART:

• 3+ years working in a manufacturing environment with automation control systems.
• Ability to develop PLC and HMI software programs.
• Knowledge and experience in statistical process control methodology
• Knowledge and practical experience with lean manufacturing principles
• Ability to optimally train electricians and operators pertaining to control systems.
• Foundry equipment experience a strong plus.
• Knowledge of Wonderware(AVEVA) and/or Movicon is beneficial.
• Designing control systems for monitoring production and manufacturing processes.

Company DescriptionOverview

TechLink Systems is a provider of staffing services with offices all over the USA as well as development and support centers globally. We are a MBE (NMSDC), WBE (WBENC), and WOSB certified minority business that has been awarded 2017 TAPFIN Premier Partner, 2016 Manpower Excellence Award, 2016 TAPFIN Elite Partner, are a Known Tier Supplier for Agile 1, and have been ranked as a Top Women and Minority Owned Company since 2004 by several businesses including Philadelphia Business Journal, Business, Inc 5000, Inc 500, San Francisco Business Times, Diversity2000, and Los Angeles Business Journal.

We serve the contract staffing, direct hire, staff augmentation, recruitment, HR management, and project outsourcing needs of clients nationwide. Striving to create personal relationships with clients, TechLink Systems becomes a virtual extension of clients’ own in-house capabilities to help achieve new levels of growth, productivity, and competitiveness.

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TechLink Systems is a provider of staffing services with offices all over the USA as well as development and support centers globally. We are a MBE (NMSDC), WBE (WBENC), and WOSB certified minority business that has been awarded 2017 TAPFIN Premier Partner, 2016 Manpower Excellence Award, 2016 TAPFIN Elite Partner, are a Known Tier Supplier for Agile 1, and have been ranked as a Top Women and Minority Owned Company since 2004 by several businesses including Philadelphia Business Journal, Business, Inc 5000, Inc 500, San Francisco Business Times, Diversity2000, and Los Angeles Business Journal.

We serve the contract staffing, direct hire, staff augmentation, recruitment, HR management, and project outsourcing needs of clients nationwide. Striving to create personal relationships with clients, TechLink Systems becomes a virtual extension of clients’ own in-house capabilities to help achieve new levels of growth, productivity, and competitiveness.

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