Senior Controls Engineer - Military Veterans
at Kelly
Title: Senior Controls Engineer
Location: Arlington Heights, IL
Type: Contract-to-Permanent
Travel Required: Up to 75%
Pay Rate: $60.00 - $68.00 per hour (+ travel bonus)
Senior Controls Engineer Summary:
Kelly® Engineering is seeking a Senior Controls Engineer for a contract-to-permanent position at an innovative client specializing in advanced automation solutions for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. If you are passionate about shaping the world we live in and are ready to reengineer your future, trust the experts at hiring experts.
Overview
Our client, a division of a global enterprise renowned for their commitment to quality and innovation, designs, builds, and services critical automated solutions for the life sciences sector. Their mission is to enhance the quality of life through state-of-the-art technologies that support precision and reliability. This is your chance to join a team dedicated to creating a meaningful impact in an industry where every detail matters.
As a Senior Controls Engineer, you will lead a team of controls engineers in bringing advanced machinery to life. This role involves responsibility for project schedules, budgets, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure project success. The ideal candidate is highly organized, driven, and focused on achieving results while contributing to continuous improvement efforts.
Responsibilities:
- Develop the architecture of controls systems, including large, multi-machine systems.
- Program PLCs, HMIs, and robots for cam-operated and indexing machines, often featuring a large count of servo axes.
- Provide guidance to electricians on wiring and code compliance.
- Debug and perform function verification on the production floor, culminating in Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT).
- Travel domestically and internationally to assist in machine re-commissioning at customer sites, culminating in Site Acceptance Testing (SAT).
- Collaborate with team members to improve standards and processes.
- Lead and mentor a team of controls engineers to achieve project goals.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 6 years of automation experience.
- Proficiency in Allen Bradley PLCs, HMIs, and servo control systems.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple aspects of a project simultaneously.
- Experience with debugging, FAT, and SAT processes.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
What happens next:
Once you apply, you’ll proceed to the next steps if your skills and experience align with the position. But don’t worry – even if this position doesn’t work out, you’re still in the Kelly Engineering network. That means our team of expert engineering recruiters will have access to your profile, making your opportunities limitless.
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Kelly applies targeted recruiting initiatives to the Veterans population (in all stages of transition) by aligning customer defined requirements with military skills and experience. The transition from military to civilian life can be stressful and complex for veterans, and our staff is trained to assist in this transition. Unlike our competition, Kelly places these resources without geographic or industry constraints, offering our customers and our employees greater flexibility. Kelly has a wide variety of local opportunities, for Veterans and their spouses, within our workforce solutions as well as national recruiting programs on behalf of our customers. Kelly’s leading placement opportunities for Veterans are within Information Technology, Engineering, Science, Light Industrial and Call Center.
Our specially trained Veteran recruiters are armed with a number of tools to help Veterans obtain roles that match their potential including skill translation tools, leading Veteran- centric job boards and Veteran/spouse social media networks, among others.
Through Kelly’s vast branch network, we are closely located to the majority of major military installations across the United States. Kelly recruiters participate in onsite and virtual military career fairs as well as advertise through local and national Veteran job boards. In recent years, over 150 Kelly branches have worked directly with their local military installations to recruit spouses and transitioning personnel. These teams not only engages with transitioning talent from local bases, but also have a strong focus on Veterans in areas where the military has identified high Veteran unemployment. This approach ensures that military talent is engaged and shared across the centralized military recruiting team and documented in a centralized database, so that other Kelly locations can benefit from hiring or relocating this valuable pool of talent.
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