Senior Controls & Electrical Engineering Leader

Top Echelon Software, LLC; Bridgeview (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Top Echelon Software, LLC in Bridgeview, IL seeks a Controls & Electrical Engineering Manager to lead a small team of engineers and supervisors on a new, heavily automated campus. You will guide electricians and serve as the strongest technical resource for electrical and controls.

The role is a working manager seat focusing on end-to-end project delivery, design of production and infrastructure systems, and ensuring compliance with NEC/NFPA 70 and food safety standards at a 1st shift site.

Qualifications

• BSEE, or 10+ years of hands-on electrical project engineering in manufacturing in lieu of a degree.
• 7+ years of electrical engineering in a manufacturing setting with real design, controls, and project work.
• Hands-on design skills including drawings, scoping, load sizing, and calculations.
• Working-level PLC skills: able to wire, program, and troubleshoot.
• Experience with 13.8kV service, 480V distribution, MCCs, and control panels.

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 make sure work meets 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

PLC programming

Load sizing & calculations

Troubleshooting

Education

BSEE or equivalent experience

Tools

SCADA systems

Job description

Top Echelon Software, LLC in Bridgeview, IL seeks a Controls & Electrical Engineering Manager to lead a small team of engineers and supervisors on a new, heavily automated campus. You will guide electricians and serve as the strongest technical resource for electrical and controls.

The role is a working manager seat focusing on end-to-end project delivery, design of production and infrastructure systems, and ensuring compliance with NEC/NFPA 70 and food safety standards at a 1st shift site.