Senior Controls & Electrical Engineering Leader (On-site)

Job Juncture; Bridgeview (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Job Juncture is hiring a Controls & Electrical Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers and supervisors at an on-site, heavily automated industrial campus in Bridgeview, IL. The role blends leadership with hands-on electrical and controls mastery to drive capital projects and maintain critical electrical systems.

The ideal candidate will have a BSEE or extensive hands-on manufacturing electrical experience, strong PLC skills, and a track record of delivering complex electrical designs and

Qualifications

• BSEE or 10+ years of hands-on electrical project engineering in manufacturing.
• 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.
• Manufacturing background preferred; food, bakery, chemical, packaging, or other complex industrial plants.
• Prior engineering leadership a plus.
• PE or electrical license a plus, not required.

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

Controls engineering

PLC programming

Project leadership

Budgeting

Education

BSEE or equivalent experience

Tools

SCADA

Electrical drawings

Job description

Job Juncture is hiring a Controls & Electrical Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers and supervisors at an on-site, heavily automated industrial campus in Bridgeview, IL. The role blends leadership with hands-on electrical and controls mastery to drive capital projects and maintain critical electrical systems.

The ideal candidate will have a BSEE or extensive hands-on manufacturing electrical experience, strong PLC skills, and a track record of delivering complex electrical designs and