Senior Controls & Electrical Engineering Lead - Manufacturing

Client Growth Resources, Inc; Bridgeview (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Client Growth Resources, Inc. seeks an experienced Controls & Electrical Engineering Manager for a new, heavily automated production campus in Bridgeview, IL.

You will lead a small team of engineers and supervisors while remaining the strongest technical resource on electrical and controls. This working manager role requires hands-on design, project leadership, and a deep understanding of high- and medium-voltage systems, PLCs, and electrical drawings.

Qualifications

• BSEE or 10+ years of hands-on electrical project engineering in manufacturing in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with 13.8kV service, 480V distribution, MCCs and control panels.
• Hands-on design skills including drawings, scoping, load sizing, and calculations.
• Working-level PLC skills: wire, program, and troubleshoot.
• Manufacturing background in complex plants preferred.
• Prior engineering leadership is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Run electrical projects end to end: design, scope, budget, install, document, and close out.
• Design electrical and control systems for production machinery, robotic palletizing, and building infrastructure.
• Maintain and support the site’s medium and high voltage distribution.
• Serve as the 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 compliance with NEC, NFPA 70, local code, and food safety standards.
• Build electrical capital budgets, specs, RFQs, and bills of material for vendor quotes.

Skills

Electrical design

Controls engineering

PLC programming

Project management

MV/HV distribution

Electrical drawings

SCADA

Team leadership

MCCs

RFQ specs

Education

BSEE or 10+ years electrical project engineering in manufacturing in lieu of a degree

Tools

NEC NFPA 70

Budgeting

Bills of Materials (BOM)

Job description

Client Growth Resources, Inc. seeks an experienced Controls & Electrical Engineering Manager for a new, heavily automated production campus in Bridgeview, IL.

You will lead a small team of engineers and supervisors while remaining the strongest technical resource on electrical and controls. This working manager role requires hands-on design, project leadership, and a deep understanding of high- and medium-voltage systems, PLCs, and electrical drawings.