
Controls Engineer
Jonesville, SCJob$71–105K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Eaton is seeking a Controls Engineer for its Jonesville, South Carolina site. The role supports plant goals by developing and maintaining testing and assembly processes and participating in the design, validation, installation, and troubleshooting of production equipment and programs. The engineer also supports controls and test systems, collaborates across manufacturing functions, and leads improvement initiatives. Relocation assistance is available.
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Full job description
Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Controls Engineer.
This role is located at our Jonesville, SC site. Relocation assistance will be provided.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $71000 - $105000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What you’ll do:
The Manufacturing Controls Engineer is responsible for supporting plant leadership in achieving business and financial goals by developing and maintaining robust testing and assembly processes. The Manufacturing Controls Engineer will actively participate and support the design, development, fabrication, validation, installation, and troubleshooting of production equipment and programs
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In this role you will:
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Provide guidelines for the design and selection of test equipment, Developing testing protocols, test data collection programs and best practices.
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Support, service, and trouble shoot controls for production equipment, test equipment, and electrical systems within the plant.
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Develop test equipment specifications ensuring compliance with electrical safe work practices and OSHA requirements. Identify and remediate potential safety hazards.
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Developing interfaces between SQL databases and production systems.
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Enforce safety expectations, document, and communicate hazards and unsafe conditions to ensure a zero-incident culture and product conformance to electrical safety and quality standards.
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Collaborate with manufacturing, MESH, manufacturing engineering, quality, product design engineering, suppliers, and customers as needed.
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Performs root cause and failure analysis, applying critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
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Guide the capital equipment selection process and develop Capital Appropriation Requests (CARS) for new products or process initiatives.
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Actively participate in assessment processes within the manufacturing environment, potentially as a category lead or champion.
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Lead/co-lead cost-out initiatives and promotes culture of continuous improvement.
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Collaborates cross functionally using Lean and Six Sigma tools to solve manufacturing problems.
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Leverages advanced technology to improve the effectiveness of information systems for controls.
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Seeks opportunities to eliminate waste associated with the flow of factory floor test information. Leads/co-leads projects, develop goals, budgets, and work breakdown structures.
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Execute sustained change management within manufacturing operations, utilizing change management techniques such as ADKAR to drive and sustain improvements.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
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Associate's degree from an accredited institution
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Two (2) years of engineering experience in a manufacturing testing environment
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Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
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Relocation assistance will be provided for candidates that reside outside a 50-mile radius of Jonesville, SC.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience with National Instruments hardware (DIO, DAQ, GPIB, PXI) and software (LabView, TestStand)
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Medium and High voltage and high current testing
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LabView certification is a plus.
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Experience in NFPA70E and OSHA Regulations in Electrical Safety (Arc Flash, LOTO, Approach Boundaries, PPE selection and testing)
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Six Sigma or/and Lean Manufacturing
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Experience in reading, marking up and updating blue prints, wiring diagrams and electrical schematics and one-line drawings
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Experience in designing and deploying various PLC hardware and software – RSLogix5, 500 &5000, Siemens Step 7, Allen-Bradley HMI systems, VB.Net and C#
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here (https://www.youreatonbenefits.com/candidates) for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,293 open Controls Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$71–105K/yr
- South Carolina median$98–149K/yr31 salary ranges
- US median$111–160K/yr1,324 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $88K, is 30% below the South Carolina median midpoint ($126K) — in the lowest quarter of Controls Engineer salary ranges in South Carolina.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 52 open Controls Engineer jobs in South Carolina and 2,293 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in South Carolina
- GE Vernova11 open
- Eaton Corporation (this employer)9 open
- First Solar Inc3 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 1,949 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 1,216 of the 2,293 open Controls Engineer jobs (53%) ask for an associate degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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