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Location: Germantown, WI | Schedule: full-time, on-site | Compensation: Up to $85,000 base salary

Overview

A rapidly expanding controls and automation integrator in the Greater Milwaukee area is seeking an Electrical CAD Designer to support its growing panel production operations. The company recently added a 6,000 sq. ft. UL panel production facility to keep pace with surging demand for smart warehouse, factory floor, and automated solutions. This direct-hire role offers exposure to a wide range of automation projects within an agile, zero-bureaucracy team environment.

What you'll do

• Create, modify, and finalize electrical schematics, 3-phase power distribution diagrams, and control panel enclosure layouts for complex custom automation projects
• Manage and complete large-scale drawing packages (often 20–50+ pages) with a focus on drafting speed, spatial accuracy, and detail consistency
• Translate physical system hardware—including multi-axis robotic cells, material handling conveyor loops, and specialized test rigs—into clean, functional CAD drawings
• Collaborate closely with shop assembly technicians and controls engineers to verify BOM specs and ensure component callouts align with real-world builds
• Design electrical layouts that facilitate rapid, clean wiring and logical wire-trough routing on the production floor

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of electrical design experience drafting and engineering industrial electrical schematics for panel fabrication and automated machinery controls
• 5+ years working directly for a custom machine builder, robotics integrator, panel shop, or material handling OEM
• Demonstrated speed and efficiency in standard CAD tools, with hands-on proficiency in AutoCAD Electrical, SolidWorks Electrical, E-Plan, or Sky-Plan strongly valued
• High drafting output speed and accuracy, with the ability to execute complete drawing packages rapidly
• US Citizen or Green Card holder residing within a 45-minute daily driving radius of the Greater Milwaukee area

Preferred qualifications

• Practical working knowledge of UL 508A control panel design criteria and NFPA 79 industrial machinery electrical standards
• Hands-on experience generating detailed parts lists and bills of materials directly within CAD software for procurement import
• Prior hands-on experience wiring or assembling industrial control panels on a shop floor

Compensation and benefits

• Up to $85,000 base salary, commensurate with drafting velocity and panel layout depth
• Company-matched retirement plan
• Full healthcare benefits package

Why this role

This is an opportunity to work on a wide variety of automation projects—from software-to-hardware interfaces to multi-axis robotic cell layouts—within a collaborative, zero-bureaucracy team backed by a rock-solid project pipeline.