Title: Controls Engineer

Location: 85 West Army Trail Road, Glendale Heights IL

Work Shift: Days/ 1^st Shift

Who We Are

Founded in 1920 and based in Addison, Illinois, Clyde’s is a thriving, 4^th generation family-owned food manufacturer and a leading national supplier of donuts to the largest global retailers in mass grocery, convenience stores, and food service. We specialize in the manufacture of a wide range of ready to serve, ready to sell, and ready to finish donuts for customer showcases and retail display. Our Company is financially strong with a consistent track record of stability and growth under the careful leadership of the Bickford family. Clyde’s offers the best in a family-owned environment with friendly, informal, and supportive culture. We invite you to consider a career with our special company.

Why are we hiring?

Clyde's is growing very fast. We continue to enjoy multi-year, accelerated, double-digit growth. In 2023, we opened our 2^nd production plant and are adding many new positions! Clyde's is a place where you can make a real difference and find real opportunity. We are looking for enthusiastic, collaborative, and hard-working individuals to join our family and become part of our 103-year-old success story.

Summary of Position

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Controls Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and supervising all aspects of electrical control systems, equipment, and machinery. The Controls Engineer will work with new technologies and control systems and will be involved in a wide number of projects. This person will also be responsible for the installation and programming support of PLCs and software.

Essential Job Functions

• Develops and executes regular engineering processes, documents work performed, works with program design and testing and troubleshooting.
• Plans and performs work requiring electronic and mechanical theories and principles and writing specifications.
• Manages the installation of electrical equipment including PLC's, sensors, instrumentation and drives.
• Recommends maintenance, test procedures and standards, plans for equipment and material needs, and schedules and performs activities to ensure reliability of all electrical protection equipment and systems.
• Installs, services, maintains, inspects, tests, repairs, replaces, disassembles, adjusts, and cleans electrical and related equipment and relays used to protect and control functions of equipment such as, but not limited to, circuit breakers, transformers, capacitors, telemetry, automatic switches, supervisory control devices, and indicating and recording instruments and using hand tools.
• Develops clear and concise operator instruction manuals.
• Identifies opportunities to improve plant performance.
• Manages contract resources to complete approved projects.
• Provides relevant training for control systems where applicable.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering preferred or related field and/or 5-7 years of experience performing controls and automation operations work.
• PLC programming, HMI programming, Ethernet network configuration, PID loop tuning (level, pressure, temperature, flow), motor and drive configuration and troubleshooting.
• General understanding of electrical engineering.
• Extensive knowledge of test equipment, electromechanical and solid-state relays, meters, computers, communications equipment, and proper wiring methods and practices.
• Ability to interpret electrical wiring diagrams and drawings.
• Ability to troubleshoot, make recommendations, and prioritize system improvements.
• Demonstrated proper knowledge of safe testing, maintenance and repair techniques.
• Comprehensive knowledge of mathematical computation procedures.
• Demonstrated proper knowledge of safe testing, maintenance and repair techniques.
• Considerable knowledge of the proper and safe use and application of tools, equipment and hardware.

We Offer

• Highly competitive base pay.
• Generous annual bonus with history of consistent payout.
• Medical plan options including HMO, PPO and HDHP with H.S.A.
• Dental plan. Two plan options.
• Vision plan.
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Short-term disability plan (Company paid).
• Long-term disability plan (Company paid).
• Group term life and AD&D insurance (Company Paid).
• Voluntary insurance plans including life, AD&D, accident, and critical illness.
• Generous paid time off benefits and 7 holidays.
• 401(k) plan including 4% matching contribution and immediate vesting.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Various leaves of absence programs for life’s emergencies.
• Clean, modern, and safe facilities.

Clyde’s Donuts is proud to be an equal opportunity/ reasonable accommodation employer.