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.