Job Description
Title: Controls Engineering Supervisor
Location: Noblesville, Indiana
Hire Type:Direct
Shift : 1st shift
Compensation: $120-150k.
Position Overview
We are seeking a Controls Engineering Supervisor to lead and mentor a team of controls engineers while remaining hands-on with automation projects. This position will oversee controls design, PLC/HMI programming, machine integration, commissioning, and troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and support Controls Engineers.
- Provide technical direction for PLC, HMI, robotics, motion, and automation systems.
- Oversee controls design, programming, debugging, and commissioning.
- Support FATs, machine startups, installations, and customer launches.
- Review electrical schematics, I/O documentation, and controls architecture.
- Work closely with Mechanical, Electrical, Robotics, and Project Management teams.
- Develop and improve controls standards, processes, and engineering practices.
- Troubleshoot complex controls and automation issues.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of controls or automation engineering experience.
- Previous leadership, mentoring, or supervisory experience.
- Strong PLC programming and troubleshooting skills.
- Allen-Bradley/Rockwell experience preferred.
- Experience with HMI, VFDs, motion control, robotics, and industrial networking.
- Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics.
- Custom machinery, OEM, automation, or systems integration experience preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, or related field preferred.
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 | Noblesville, IN |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $120,000–$150,000 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
- Allen-Bradleyunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Automation Engineeringunmatched
- Automation Systemsunmatched
- Commissioningunmatched
- Control Engineeringunmatched
- Debugging Skillsunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Engineering Managementunmatched
- Human Machine Interface (HMI)unmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Industrial Roboticsunmatched
- Input/Outputunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Motion Controlunmatched
- OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)unmatched
- People Managementunmatched
- Program Controlunmatched
- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)unmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Roboticsunmatched
- Schematicsunmatched
- Startupunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
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