Field Engineer - Power and Automation Systems
Sterling Engineering, Inc.
- Chicago, IL
- 2 days ago
- $90,000–$100,000 Per Year
Highlights
You’ll work with AC/DC drive systems, control software, power electronics, rotating machinery, and complex control systems, while partnering with engineering teams, clients, suppliers, and field service personnel. This role combines engineering, troubleshooting, system integration, commissioning, and direct customer interaction—giving you the opportunity to see complex systems move from installation through successful startup.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $90,000–$100,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
Description
Title: Field Engineer - Power and Automation Systems
Location: Chicago, IL
Pay Rate: $90,000-100,000 + site pay (~$125,000 total compensation)
Employment Type: Full-Time Direct Hire
Employment Type: Full-Time Direct Hire
Comprehensive Benefits Program including 5 weeks PTO, matching 401k, and 11 holidays
Must be able to travel 50% to client sites
Take your electrical or controls engineering career into the field with an opportunity to commission sophisticated power and automation systems at industrial facilities around the world. This role combines engineering, troubleshooting, system integration, commissioning, and direct customer interaction—giving you the opportunity to see complex systems move from installation through successful startup. You’ll work with AC/DC drive systems, control software, power electronics, rotating machinery, and complex control systems, while partnering with engineering teams, clients, suppliers, and field service personnel.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical advisory and field engineering services supporting equipment installation and commissioning.
- Commission AC and DC drive systems and control software to meet design and performance requirements.
- Tune closed-loop regulators to optimize equipment performance and meet design parameters.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex process and application problems involving industrial control systems.
- Design, configure, and test system hardware and software when assigned.
- Gather and evaluate technical information to determine project requirements within assigned areas of responsibility.
- Lead assigned portions of client witness system acceptance testing.
- Provide accurate commissioning status updates and communicate project progress to appropriate stakeholders.
- Recommend improvements to commissioning procedures, equipment performance, software, and hardware.
- Support engineering teams with recommendations for system and product improvements.
- Perform system integration, testing, debugging, commissioning, and startup activities.
- Maintain required safety qualifications and follow company and client safety requirements.
- Coach and support associates in areas of technical expertise.
- Train client personnel on system maintenance and operation to maximize equipment performance and minimize downtime.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 2 years of experience commissioning power distribution, power electronic, and/or rotating machine products.
- Ability to travel 50% and work independently in field environments while maintaining strong communication with project and engineering teams.
What Makes This Role Stand Out?
- Hands-on engineering: Work directly with sophisticated industrial equipment rather than remaining solely behind a desk.
- Power & automation expertise: Build specialized experience with AC/DC drives, power electronics, control systems, and rotating machinery.
- Commissioning & startup: Be involved in the critical stage where engineered systems are brought online and proven in the field.
- International exposure: Opportunity to work with international clients and field-service organizations.
- Customer interaction: Develop valuable technical and communication skills by working directly with customers and project stakeholders.
- Technical growth: Expand your expertise across controls, software, hardware, commissioning, troubleshooting, and system integration.
- Leadership opportunities: Coach other technical personnel and serve as a subject-matter resource.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
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