Control Design Engineer

Electrical Control System Designer

We are a well-established industrial automation and control systems company that has served machine builders and industrial customers for almost 30 years. We design and build control systems, UL 508A control panels, automation equipment, and custom electrical and electronic solutions. We do all of this as a small, nimble, cohesive team.

We are looking for a technically capable, detail-oriented person who can work across electrical design and drafting, estimating, BOM development, component research and selection, and completing control-system designs based on engineering direction.

This is not a programming or field-work position. This position channels creativity into predictability, repeatability, and world-class engineering standards.

The right person will work closely with our senior engineering team, turning customer requirements and technical direction into provisional BOMs and designs for quoting, then completing documentation packages for production once the order is received.

You’ll possess a rare combination of fearless curiosity and a genuine satisfaction in accuracy, order, and completeness.

We are looking for someone who is willing to say, “I don’t know. Will you show me?”

Then, after being shown, we expect you to dig deeper, use other resources, understand why the approach works, and be better prepared the next time.

Estimating and Quoting

We specialize in developing turnkey control systems for our customers based on little more than a description of what they need. They describe what they want the system to do, and our team creates a solution that meets the technical, budgetary, and timeline requirements.

The right candidate will take on more and more of this work.

Typical work includes:

• Understanding the customer’s functional requirements
• Adapting proven Automation Solutions architectures to meet those requirements
• Using similar past projects as a starting point
• Developing preliminary BOMs and cost estimates
• Identifying major components, unresolved selections, assumptions, and placeholders
• Checking product availability and obtaining pricing through our operations team
• Building material and labor estimates in spreadsheets and our business systems
• Updating estimates as the design becomes better defined
• Providing a comprehensive technical description for our Sales team to incorporate into the customer-facing proposal

Electrical Design and Drafting

Grounded in the project requirements and controls architecture developed during the quoting phase, you will help convert the quoted solution into production-ready documentation when we receive the order.

Typical work includes:

• Understanding the customer’s requirements and the engineering approach selected to meet them
• Reviewing and adapting proven designs
• Developing I/O lists and selecting components within established standards
• Developing power-distribution and control details
• Creating electrical schematics and control-panel layouts
• Developing terminal, cable, and connector documentation
• Incorporating engineering and production feedback
• Maintaining revisions and producing accurate as-built documentation

Our primary 2D drafting platform is DraftSight. Experienced AutoCAD users should find the transition straightforward. You must already be competent in conventional 2D controls drafting and be able to become productive in DraftSight very quickly.

You must also have a working understanding of industrial automation components and electrical controls.

How the Design Responsibility Grows

We expect the amount of engineering direction to change as your experience and judgment grow.

If you have a solid technical foundation and the right attitude, we will help you learn to approach controls design with a methodology developed over almost thirty years.

We expect questions, discussion, alternatives, redlines, and iteration. As your understanding develops, those reviews should increasingly become conversations between engineers rather than instructions from one person to another.

For the candidate we are looking for, this is a long-term career path. Our goal is to progressively transfer more responsibility for system design, estimating, product selection, and technical problem-solving as your knowledge and judgment develop.

Over time, we expect the right person to independently carry a substantial share of our day-to-day system design and integration work…