Controls Engineer - 3rd Shift

AUTOKINITON
Chicago, US
On-site

Job Description

To help us drive excellence, you’ll get to:

  • · Support the Company’s mission, vision, values, and goals in performance of daily activities.
  • · Train, coach, and mentor, the electrical controls process, for manufacturing skilled trades and mentor colleagues.
  • · Coordinate resources to find root cause and fixes, manage and breakdown problems into items that can be validated.
  • · Maintain PLC based control systems for manufacturing automation and instrumentation.
  • · Guide designs, develop and test electrical control methods, materials, processes, and results.
  • · Lead projects and assist skilled trades in electrical disciplines.
  • · Support operations in electrical/controls troubleshooting and continuous improvement activities.

This full-time, salary, role is a part of our Engineering Team and reports to the Engineering Manager.

Required experience:

  • · Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, controls or automation engineering. Master's Degree is a plus. Open for equivalent years of experience.
  • · Electrical background (electrician or technician) preferred.
  • · Experienced with Vision System
  • · Working knowledge of PLC/CNC (Siemens/Allen-Bradley), ABB and FANUC Robots.
  • · Lean Manufacturing experience
  • · Excellent "hands on" electrical/mechanical aptitude
  • · Experience working with electrical/controls circuitry and schematics.
  • · Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills
  • · Ability to read and write in English and to perform mathematical calculations.

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

PLCCNCABBFANUC RobotsLean ManufacturingVision Systemelectrical controlsmanufacturing automationinstrumentationtrainingcoachingmentoringproblem-solvingcommunicationorganizationanalyticalengineeringmanufacturing

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

mid

Posted

4/2/2026

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