The board
- Hours
- Full time
- Where
- Buffalo Grove, IL
- Posted
- Sep 2
The Automation Controls Engineer support the design, development and sustainment of advanced manufacturing solutions to increase production quality and velocity—solutions include the use of Robotics, PLCs, PCs, safety controllers, sensors, pneumatics, and other typical automation technologies. The automation controls engineer partners with other functions to identify and deploy opportunities within production operations.
What you'd do
- Develop solutions for automation opportunities using Plexus standard processes, Plexus approved solution providers and/or the global Plexus automation team.
- Develop Proof of Concept (POC) prototypes for new programs and tooling for additional products to be added to automated production processes.
- Architect and develop software and system concepts that satisfy the innovative technology requirements.
- Lead programming and development of software and electrical capabilities.
- Development of required documentation including; software workflows, intended uses, requirements, electrical schematics and network diagrams for developed technologies.
- Define and execute required software verification and validation testing.
What they want
- Student working towards a Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering program for entire duration of internship.
- Starts
- 2026-09-01