Electrical Controls Engineer (Jr/Mid/Sr Openings)

Electrical Controls Engineer

$75,000 – $110,000 Base Salary + Profit Sharing • Greater Milwaukee Area • Travel Flex • Full Benefits Package

This opportunity offers the ultimate antidote to career burnout for a controls engineer who is tired of being stuck in a repetitive plant maintenance loop or siloed into rewriting the exact same corporate machine template. Operating as a premier, lightning-fast automation integration firm that has successfully doubled its revenue and team footprint year-over-year, this company functions with an engineering philosophy that is strictly anti-monotony. Every single assignment is a custom, ground-up solution, allowing you to actively jump across large-scale software integrations, high-speed conveyor sortation networks, robotic welding cells, and ultra-precise servo-driven motion systems.

The organization protects its engineering talent aggressively. Recognizing that field commissioning takes dedication, a strict, non-negotiable travel-balancing policy has been implemented: if a customer startup forces you to travel over a weekend, you are instantly awarded comp days to ensure you come back home to a relaxing four-day weekend. There are no exceptions and no corporate guilt. If you want to take true project ownership, watch your code command massive physical machines, and build a career where your name actually carries weight, this zero-bureaucracy environment is built to match your drive.

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop robust PLC programs and intuitive HMI interfaces completely from scratch for complex, custom automation machinery, robotic cells, and specialized sorting systems.
• Engineer advanced operator interfaces using FactoryTalk View, or incorporate Visual Studio and C# for high-level enterprise software and database integrations.
• Review, modify, and perfect detailed electrical schematics in AutoCAD to verify panel layouts align with Bill of Materials (BOM) specs and safety regulations.
• Implement, configure, and troubleshoot industrial networking protocols and safety architectures, including EtherNet/IP, multi-axis servo motion, machine vision systems, and safety controllers.
• Serve as the primary technical field authority during on-site customer startups, supervising installations, and executing final commissioning sequences.

What We Are Looking For

• Ground-up controls depth featuring 2 or more years of verifiable professional experience designing and programming control systems. Must have direct experience writing logic from scratch using Allen-Bradley/Rockwell platforms (Studio 5000/RSLogix), rather than simply tweaking pre-existing code blocks.
• Technical education backed by an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation Technology, Computer Science, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Professional stability with a reliable career track record showing steady tenure and long-term commitment with prior employers.
• Field flexibility with the full willingness and capability to travel domestically between 25% and 50% to champion custom integration rollouts at client sites.
• Local proximity and permanent residency established within a comfortable 45-minute drive of the Greater Milwaukee / Washington County corridor to support active lab collaboration.

Preferred Technical Assets (Not Required)

• Hands-on configuration of advanced multi-axis servo motion systems or industrial vision platforms (Cognex, Keyence, etc.).
• High-level language coding proficiency (C#, VB.NET) or SQL relational database programming depth.
• Direct programming, path teaching, or integration experience with FANUC or alternative industrial robotic arms.