Senior Automation Engineer: Lead Complex Industrial Controls

Tesco Controls; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco Controls, an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, seeks a Senior Automation Engineer to lead technical execution across panel design, PLC, SCADA/HMI, and networking projects. You will mentor engineers, review models, and support commissioning with hands-on leadership.

Travel up to 10% and collaboration with Manufacturing Engineering are required to ensure design quality, manufacturability, and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industrial controls / systems-integration experience with proven project execution.
• Expert-level capability in at least one major discipline: panel/electrical design, PLC, SCADA/HMI, networking/telemetry, or systems architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical execution for complex projects or defined technical workstreams in panel design, PLC, SCADA/HMI, networking/telemetry, and/or commissioning.
• Translate enterprise standards into practical project-specific approaches.
• Review and design control-panels in SolidWorks with layout, wiring, interfaces, and manufacturability considerations.
• Coordinate with Manufacturing Engineering to resolve constructability, UL/listing, thermal, and production issues.
• Develop, review, and troubleshoot PLC applications, SCADA/HMI systems, and industrial networks.
• Mentor Automation Engineers and Junior Engineers through real project work and FAT activities.
• Own technical decisions and communicate risks, standards, and unresolved issues to the Project Manager.
• Support estimating and proposal development for technically complex scopes.
• Participate in FAT, startup, commissioning, and root-cause analyses and feed issues into standards.

Skills

Electrical design

PLC

SCADA/HMI

Industrial networks

Project leadership

Panel design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

Electrical design tools

Job description

Tesco Controls, an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, seeks a Senior Automation Engineer to lead technical execution across panel design, PLC, SCADA/HMI, and networking projects. You will mentor engineers, review models, and support commissioning with hands-on leadership.

Travel up to 10% and collaboration with Manufacturing Engineering are required to ensure design quality, manufacturability, and customer satisfaction.