Automation (Controls) Engineer

Salary: $100,000 - $130,000 per year

Location: Spring Grove, IL

Posted: December 12 2025

Minimum Degree:

Relocation Assistance: Available

Automation Controls Engineer (Rockwell/Allen Bradley primarily, some Honeywell and Fanuc)

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

  • Electrical and Automation Design and Procurement
    • Completely understand and be able to troubleshoot existing systems that have automated control systems currently installed.
    • Research and develop for new processes and equipment.
    • Develop written specifications and budgets of new automation tools such as robots, co bots, ASRS and other systems that advance the company automation footprint.
    • Quote and procure all new systems that align with written specifications and budgets with contract reviews, supplier selection, negotiation and ROI of automated systems and controls.
  • Troubleshoot complex automated systems.
  • Buyoff of installed automated systems to the written specifications.
  • Designs meet or exceed respective codes: Analysis, validation and due diligence is performed to ensure quality of design with a priority on plant and personnel safety.
  • Research and review advanced sensing and the integration of these systems into the automation that is designed and developed.
  • The Automation engineer will be the corporate Subject Mater Expert and, in some cases, oversee third party automation providers.
  • Communicate with the IT department and data science strategies to enable strong data capture, reporting, process certification and machine learning.
    • This may include working with IT on a segregated system like a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) from the DCS architecture currently deployed.

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