Controls Engineer
Daifuku Intralogistics America Corporation
Erlanger, KYFull-time$85–95K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Controls Engineer develops products for material handling applications, including conveyors, sortation, automated storage, order fulfillment, and robotic systems. The role designs specifications, device layouts, control schematics, and PLC logic, collaborating with the development team to meet product requirements. It also includes prototype testing, field issue investigation, and domestic travel up to 60% in North America.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Experience Required
2 - 20 years
Minimum Education Required
Bachelor's Degree
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
Controls Engineer
Job Location
US-KY-Erlanger | US-IL-Bolingbrook | US-MI-Grand Rapids
of Openings 1 Company Division ILUS
Overview
About Us
Daifuku is the nation's leading independent, U.S.-based provider of intelligent material handling systems. With hundreds of engineers in-house, the company designs, manufactures, integrates, and installs the full spectrum of intralogistics solutions. We provide leading-edge conveyor and sortation systems, voice and light-directed order fulfillment equipment, controls and software, robotics, mezzanines, and structures.
If you want to join a team of industry leading experts and who want to create an impact on the future of material handling solutions, we want to hear from you.
Job Summary
Develops new products for material handling applications including conveyors, sortation, automated storage, order fulfilment, and robotic systems. Includes development of specifications, device layout drawings, control schematics, PLC logic. May work with support of more senior engineers. Works closely with the overall team to design systems meeting the product requirements. Uses creativity and innovation to design the standard product offering.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions
Concept, design, develop and engineer products that add value and are a solution to customers and market needs
Collaborate and review with others on the development team to develop products
Ensure products developed fit with current and future manufacturing operations
Ensure products developed meet competitive and market demands for performance and cost
Specify and develop a sequence of operations of automated equipment
Prepares schematics and specifications for control panel fabrication
Develop Programmable Logical Control (PLC) programs
Maintain product develop schedules and cost estimates
Follow established engineering standards and best practices including software revision control
Perform prototype development and testing
Perform on site beta testing to ensure safety, reliability, and other performance metrics are met
Investigate product issues in the field and determine root cause
Domestic travel up to 60% in North America, mostly within the Continental United States.
Employees are responsible to comply with all requirements of Daifuku's QMS policies and procedures.
Employees are to ensure sustainable process outputs that drive continuous improvement to provide leading industry performance and exceptional customer satisfaction.
Qualifications
Education and Experience Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
Minimum of 2 years of related experience
Experience with sortation and conveyance equipment or robotics design required
Experience with Allen Bradley control software and tools required
Knowledge of electrical and safety codes for machine and equipment design including execution of risk assessments required
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Requirements
Knowledge of industrial automation systems, including HMI and SCADA
Knowledge of controls/controllers and PLCs
Proficient with AutoCAD Electrical
Ability to multi-task while maintaining attention to detail and deadlines
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Team-oriented and collaborative
Creative-thinking and problem-solving skills
Ability to learn new technologies
Self-motivated
Ability to work non-traditional hours
Must be able to speak, read and understand the English language
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Job Posting Min Salary
USD $85,000.00
Job Posting Max Salary
USD $95,000.00
EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans
Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
2026-22009
How this job compares
Set against the 2,371 open Controls Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$85–95K/yr
- US median$110–160K/yr1,342 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $90K, is 32% below the US median midpoint ($132K) — in the lowest quarter of Controls Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 27 open Controls Engineer jobs in Kentucky and 2,371 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Jabil3 open
- Daifuku Intralogistics America Corporation (this employer)2 open
- Dana Incorporated2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Controls Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,991 postings).
- Education
- 1,186 of the 2,371 open Controls Engineer jobs (50%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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