Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Automation Controls Technician
Location: Romeoville, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Target Pay Rate: $36–$40/hour + $1/hour shift differential
Shift: 2nd Shift | 2:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Overtime: Typically 5–10 hours/week to start; additional OT possible in future
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, PTO, paid holidays, retirement plan
Location: Romeoville, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Target Pay Rate: $36–$40/hour + $1/hour shift differential
Shift: 2nd Shift | 2:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Overtime: Typically 5–10 hours/week to start; additional OT possible in future
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, PTO, paid holidays, retirement plan
Must-Have Skills:
- PLC and VFD troubleshooting experience
- Ability to troubleshoot low and high voltage electrical systems
- Experience reading and interpreting electrical schematics
- Strong troubleshooting skills with industrial production equipment
- Mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic maintenance experience
- Experience working with 110V, 230V, and 460V systems
Job Summary:
Seeking a hands-on Controls Maintenance Technician to support troubleshooting, repair, and preventative maintenance activities within a manufacturing environment. This role will focus heavily on electrical controls, PLCs, VFDs, and production equipment reliability while supporting safe and efficient plant operations. Candidates with strong industrial electrical troubleshooting skills and minor PLC/VFD programming experience are encouraged to apply.
Job Duties:
- Troubleshoot and repair production and packaging equipment
- Diagnose and repair electrical systems including motors, relays, starters, timers, breakers, and control panels
- Perform minor PLC and VFD programming and troubleshooting
- Support setup, repair, and maintenance of conveyors, baggers, check-weighers, barcode systems, and related equipment
- Read and interpret electrical control schematics for troubleshooting purposes
- Perform preventative maintenance, equipment lubrication, and rebuild activities
- Fabricate parts and modify equipment as needed
- Respond quickly to equipment breakdowns and minimize downtime
- Ensure equipment readiness prior to production startup
- Maintain compliance with safety programs including lockout/tagout procedures
- Assist with coaching and training maintenance and operations personnel
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED required
- 4–5+ years of industrial maintenance experience preferred, though strong recent technical school graduates with hands-on experience will also be considered
- Food manufacturing experience is preferred but not required
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Experience using hand tools, power tools, and maintenance equipment safely
- Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus
- Valid Illinois driver’s license preferred
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and work in refrigerated or elevated environments as needed
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Romeoville, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $36–$40 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Automationunmatched
- Bar Code Softwareunmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Driver's Licenseunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- English Languageunmatched
- Food Productionunmatched
- Hand Toolsunmatched
- High School Diplomaunmatched
- High Voltage (HV)unmatched
- Hydraulic Engineeringunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Maintenance - Electricalunmatched
- Maintenance Servicesunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Equipment Maintenanceunmatched
- Multilingualunmatched
- Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)unmatched
- Safety Complianceunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Schematicsunmatched
- Spanish Languageunmatched
- Startupunmatched
- Variable Speed Drive (VSD)unmatched
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