- Uft
- DeKalb County, IL
- Full-Time
- 4 days ago
Automation Engineer.
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Automation Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for an engineer who designs and programs industrial control systems, including control panels, PLCs, SCADA and industrial networks used in water and wastewater projects.
- The Person:The person will design complete industrial control panels in SolidWorks 3D, develop PLC and SCADA/HMI applications, configure industrial network systems, and take part in factory testing and commissioning.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate holds a degree in Electrical Engineering or Controls/Automation Engineering, has 3 to 8 years of industrial automation experience, and knows SolidWorks 3D, Studio 5000 and UL 508A.
About the role
At Tesco Controls (a UFT company), our culture is grounded in the idea that the how we achieve results is just as important as the results themselves. Our winning behaviors guide the way we work, collaborate, and grow—both as individual employees and as a team. Our core winning behaviors are to Build Relationships, have a Relentless Drive for Results, to Communicate with Integrity and Focus, and to Be a Mentor, Teacher, Learner. These behaviors are more than words—they are the foundation of our success and continued growth.
Here, you’ll join a stable, growing company where your work directly supports cleaner water, stronger communities, and critical infrastructure across the country. If you want meaningful work, real growth opportunities, and a team that takes pride in doing the right thing—you’ll find it here. Apply today and help power the systems that keep our world running.
The Automation Engineer is the core technical role in Tesco’s future engineering organization. Rather than separating electrical panel designers, PLC programmers, SCADA engineers, and network engineers into permanent silos, Tesco is developing broad systems integrators who understand the complete control system and can contribute across multiple parts of the engineering lifecycle.
Every Automation Engineer is expected to become proficient in panel design because the manufactured control panel is a foundational element of Tesco’s work. Engineers then build varying levels of proficiency in PLC programming, SCADA/HMI configuration, industrial networks/telemetry, FAT, and field commissioning. Individual technical strengths are expected; flexibility is the purpose.
This role will require travel up to 10% of the time.
The Automation Engineer is the core technical role in Tesco’s future engineering organization. Rather than separating electrical panel designers, PLC programmers, SCADA engineers, and network engineers into permanent silos, Tesco is developing broad systems integrators who understand the complete control system and can contribute across multiple parts of the engineering lifecycle.
Every Automation Engineer is expected to become proficient in panel design because the manufactured control panel is a foundational element of Tesco’s work. Engineers then build varying levels of proficiency in PLC programming, SCADA/HMI configuration, industrial networks/telemetry, FAT, and field commissioning. Individual technical strengths are expected; flexibility is the purpose.
This role will require travel up to 10% of the time.
What you'll do:
What you bring:
Tesco Controls is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. TESCO provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA and Section 503 rules)
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