Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Title: Controls & Automation Engineer
Location: Delavan, WI
Pay Range: $110k-115k per year
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Industry: Food & Beverage / Industrial Automation
Industry: Food & Beverage / Industrial Automation
Comprehensive Benefits Package
This is an exciting opportunity for an automation engineer who wants to move beyond traditional controls programming and play a significant role in product development, electronics, industrial communications, IIoT, and connected equipment. You’ll help develop innovative control solutions for pumps, valves, heat exchangers, and other process equipment while collaborating with engineering teams, customers, suppliers, and development partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop control systems and electronic modules for process equipment and valve control applications
- Develop hardware and firmware solutions for control units, including PCB layouts and microcontroller programming
- Develop PLC and HMI programs, control narratives, I/O lists, and instrumentation specifications
- Program and integrate industrial communication technologies including IO-Link, AS-i, DeviceNet, ProfiBus, ProfiNet, OPC UA, Modbus TCP/IP, Ethernet/IP, and MQTT
- Design and implement IIoT solutions for real-time equipment monitoring and predictive maintenance
- Develop PC-based interface tools for equipment setup, diagnostics, and troubleshooting
- Create and execute verification and validation test plans for functional samples and production equipment
- Lead automation and product development projects from concept through validation, industrial release, and manufacturing handoff
- Participate in customer meetings, product launches, design reviews, and project progress reviews
Qualifications
- Must have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related engineering discipline
- Must have 5+ years of automation engineering experience, preferably within food, beverage, sanitary, or process equipment industries
- Strong PLC programming and troubleshooting experience
- Experience with HMI/SCADA platforms such as Allen-Bradley, Siemens, FactoryTalk, Ignition, or Wonderware
- Strong understanding of electronic design, circuit design, PCBA layout, digital signal processing, and microcontroller programming
- Familiarity with IoT/IIoT technologies and industrial communication protocols
Why You'll Love This Opportunity
- Next-Generation Technology: Work at the intersection of automation, electronics, connectivity, and IIoT to develop smarter industrial equipment.
- Product Development Ownership: Help take new control technologies from concept through validation and production.
- Technical Variety: Combine PLCs, HMI/SCADA, embedded programming, PCB design, industrial networking, and connected-device technologies.
- Global Exposure: Collaborate with engineering teams, suppliers, customers, and development partners across a broad organization.
- High-Visibility Work: Your designs and technical decisions will directly influence the next generation of process equipment.
- Innovation-Focused Environment: Evaluate and implement emerging automation and connectivity technologies rather than simply maintaining existing systems.
- Career Growth: Expand your expertise across controls, electronics, IIoT, product development, and industrial automation.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Delavan, WI |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $110,000–$115,000 Per Year |
| 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
- Automation Engineeringunmatched
- Circuit Designunmatched
- Communications Protocolsunmatched
- Computer Firmwareunmatched
- Control Systemsunmatched
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP)unmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Electronic Designunmatched
- Electronicsunmatched
- Embedded Programming Languagesunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Ethernetunmatched
- Food and Beverage Industryunmatched
- Functional Testingunmatched
- Hardware Developmentunmatched
- Heat Exchangerunmatched
- Human Machine Interface (HMI)unmatched
- IP (Internet Protocol)unmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Industrial Designunmatched
- Industrial Developmentunmatched
- Input/Outputunmatched
- Instrumentationunmatched
- Internet of Thingsunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Microcontrollerunmatched
- Network Connectivityunmatched
- Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Layoutunmatched
- Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA)unmatched
- Printed Circuit Board Designunmatched
- Product Designunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product/Service Launchunmatched
- Program Controlunmatched
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)unmatched
- Pumpsunmatched
- Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)unmatched
- Systems Maintenanceunmatched
- TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)unmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Time Trackingunmatched
- Validation Planunmatched
- Validation Testingunmatched
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