Top 513 Operating engineer Jobs in Illinois

Senior Group Engineering Manager - Automated Manufacturing
Flex Ltd —Buffalo Grove, IL
- $146,000 - $180,000 a year
- Full-time
- Background check
- Bachelor of Science
- 3 years
- Health savings account
- Health insurance
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CNC Technology Center Technician
Ingersoll Cutting Tool Company —Rockford, IL
- $19 - $29 an hour
- Overtime
- Mid-level
- High school diploma or GED
- Ability to lift 50 pounds
- Health savings account
- Health insurance
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Senior Process Engineer
Ingredion Incorporated (NA-US) —Bedford Park, IL
- $102,100.00 - $136,166.67 a year
- Full-time
- Analysis skills
- Experience equivalent to degree accepted
- Senior level
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Product & Process Reliability Engineer
thyssenkrupp Dynamic Components Danville LLC —Danville, IL
- $75,000 - $95,000 a year
- Engineering
- Mid-level
- 3 years
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
Maintenance Engineer
Innophos —Chicago Heights, IL
- $79,000 - $117,000 a year
- Mid-level
- 3 years
- Communication skills
- Paid parental leave
- Disability insurance
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CNC Troubleshooting and Repair Mechanic
Midland Manufacturing, OPW, a Dover Company —Skokie, IL
- $29.00 - $38.35 an hour
- Full-time
- Customer service
- 5 years
- Mid-level
- Paid jury duty
- Commuter assistance
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Process Improvement Engineer - Decatur, IL
ADM —Decatur, IL
- $76,100 - $142,700 a year
- Overtime
- Background check
- 5 years
- Bachelor of Science
- Paid parental leave
- Health savings account
Quality Assurance Calibration & Metrology Specialist
OTTO Engineering —Carpentersville, IL
- $22 - $28 an hour
- Extended hours
- Mid-level
- 3 years
- Math
- Profit sharing
- Health savings account
SWISS CNC Set-Up Operator
Smith & Richardson —Geneva, IL
- $27 - $40 an hour
- Full-time
- Basic math
- Mid-level
- 3 years
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
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CNC Operator and Programmer
AWT World Trade —Chicago, IL
- $31 - $33 an hour
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- Fair chance
- In-person
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Project Engineer
BUNGE —Channahon, IL
- $110,704 - $124,542 a year
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- 6 years
CNC OD Grinding Machinist
Schafer Industries —Roscoe, IL
- $20 - $30 an hour
- Full-time
- Computer literacy
- English
- Mid-level
- Paid training
- Health savings account
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Quality Engineer
RTC —Rolling Meadows, IL
- 18 years or older
- Microsoft Excel
- Schematics
- Commuter assistance
- Paid parental leave
Stationary Engineer- IL- Campus Facilities- 2nd Shift
Midwestern University —Downers Grove, IL
- Full-time
- Microsoft Word
- Computer literacy
- Mid-level
- Paid holidays
- Disability insurance
Journeyman Shop Mechanic
National Lift Truck —Franklin Park, IL
- $36.65 - $49.30 an hour
- Overtime
- Mechanic experience
- Customer service
- 5 years
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
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Manufacturing Process Engineer
AFC Materials Group —Lake in the Hills, IL
- $100,000 - $120,000 a year
- Full-time
- 5 years
- Bachelor of Science
- Engineering
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
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12d
Field Mechanic
National Lift Truck —Chicago, IL
- $36.65 - $49.30 an hour
- Overtime
- Clean driving record
- Mechanic experience
- Heavy equipment operation
- Fuel card
- Paid holidays
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Field Service Engineer
PASONA N A, INC. —Schaumburg, IL
- $25 - $40 an hour
- Overtime
- Hybrid work
- CAD
- Customer service
- Mid-level
- Paid holidays
- Disability insurance
Application Engineer
Tungaloy America, Inc. —Arlington Heights, IL
- $65,000 - $77,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Health savings account
- Health insurance
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Manufacturing Engineer
Weiss-Aug – Elk Grove Village, IL —Elk Grove Village, IL
- $100,000 - $120,000 a year
- Full-time
- 5 years
- Bachelor of Science
- Mid-level
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
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Senior Group Engineering Manager - Automated Manufacturing

Flex Ltd -
Buffalo Grove, IL

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Job Details

Full-time
$146,000 - $180,000 a year

Benefits

Health savings account
Health insurance
Dental insurance
401(k)
Flexible spending account
Tuition reimbursement
Paid time off
Parental leave
Employee assistance program
Vision insurance
401(k) matching
Life insurance
Referral program
Retirement plan

Qualifications

Industrial equipment design
Material handling systems
Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering
Motion controls
Industrial automation
Engineering equipment malfunctions diagnostics
Defect resolution root cause analysis
Machine vision systems
Defect analysis
Mechanical Engineering
Tooling design
CAD design (engineering design task)
Six Sigma methodology implementation
Reliability analysis
Manufacturing automation
Industrial equipment troubleshooting
Manufacturing facility experience
Team development
Managing engineering teams
Packaging
Engineering Management
Automated machine assembly
Custom manufacturing
Leading team collaboration initiatives
Managing manufacturing automation teams
Pneumatic systems
Managing manufacturing teams
Production efficiency metrics
OEM
Automation system design

Full Job Description

Position Summary

The Senior Engineering Group Manager is a key member of the Engineering leadership team responsible for providing technical and organizational leadership across multiple engineering disciplines supporting manufacturing operations.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, this role leads Engineering Managers and technical teams responsible for factory engineering, equipment performance, mechanical systems, automation support, and capital equipment execution. The Senior Engineering Group Manager is accountable for building high-performing engineering teams while ensuring the organization has the technical capability, engineering rigor, and execution discipline required to support current manufacturing operations and future growth.

This position requires an exceptional engineering leader with deep mechanical aptitude and extensive hands-on experience designing complex automated manufacturing equipment. The successful candidate will have progressed from a strong mechanical machine-design foundation into engineering management and will be ready to take the next step into broader, cross-functional, multi-discipline engineering leadership.

The ideal candidate has experience within an OEM machine builder or equipment integrator serving the packaging, medical device, pharmaceutical, or automotive industries, where equipment reliability, precision, automation, throughput, and maintainability are critical to success.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

Provide leadership and direction to Engineering Managers and multi-disciplinary engineering teams supporting manufacturing operations.
Develop a high-performance engineering organization with clear expectations for technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, accountability, and execution.
Coach and develop Engineering Managers, engineers, and technical leaders while building succession plans and strengthening the organization's technical bench.
Establish consistent engineering standards, processes, and expectations across manufacturing areas.
Partner with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Reliability, Facilities, and other functional leaders to establish priorities and deliver business results.
Create an environment where engineering teams proactively identify opportunities and solve problems at their root cause rather than repeatedly responding to symptoms.

Technical & Equipment Leadership

Serve as a senior technical authority for mechanical equipment design, machine functionality, equipment performance, and engineering problem solving.
Provide technical leadership for the design, modification, integration, commissioning, and lifecycle support of complex automated manufacturing equipment.
Lead engineering reviews of machine concepts, mechanical designs, equipment modifications, and major technical solutions.
Challenge engineering assumptions and ensure solutions demonstrate sound engineering principles, appropriate safety considerations, manufacturability, reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle value.
Guide root-cause analysis of complex or chronic equipment failures involving mechanical, electrical, controls, process, and operational interactions.
Ensure engineering solutions address underlying equipment and process limitations rather than relying on temporary countermeasures.
Support the development of equipment specifications and technical requirements for internally developed and externally sourced manufacturing systems.

Operational Excellence

Partner with factory leadership to improve equipment availability, throughput, quality, yield, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
Establish engineering priorities based on business impact, equipment performance data, chronic losses, and manufacturing constraints.
Lead engineering efforts addressing recurring equipment failures, bottlenecks, quality losses, and systemic manufacturing issues.
Promote disciplined problem-solving methodologies and data-driven engineering decision making.
Ensure engineering resources are effectively deployed against the highest-value operational opportunities.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited institution.
Minimum 10 years of engineering experience involving the design, development, integration, and support of complex manufacturing equipment. AND a Minimum 3 years of experience directly managing a mechanical engineering or machine-design organization.
Extensive professional experience using 3D mechanical design/CAD systems to design production machinery, automation equipment, tooling, mechanisms, or related industrial systems.
Significant experience working for an OEM machine builder, automation integrator, or custom equipment manufacturer supporting the packaging, medical device, pharmaceutical, automotive, or similarly demanding manufacturing industries.
Strong understanding of mechanical machine design principles including mechanisms, pneumatics, servo-driven motion, tooling, material handling, precision assemblies, machine guarding, and equipment maintainability.
Demonstrated progression from hands-on mechanical engineering and machine design into engineering leadership.
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex automated equipment and lead multidisciplinary teams through structured root-cause analysis.
Proven success managing and developing engineers and engineering managers and building high-performing technical teams.
Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively from the manufacturing floor through senior leadership.
Experience with high-speed automated assembly, packaging, precision manufacturing, robotics, vision systems, servo motion, and advanced manufacturing technologies.
Experience operating within regulated manufacturing environments such as medical device, Food and beverage, or pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, OEE, reliability engineering, and structured problem-solving methodologies.

Leadership Profile

The successful candidate will be more than an engineering administrator. This individual must be a credible technical leader who can walk onto a manufacturing floor, understand how a machine works, challenge a design, ask the right technical questions, and help an engineering team work through complex problems.

At the same time, the role requires someone capable of stepping beyond their mechanical engineering roots to lead a broader, multi-discipline engineering organization.

The ideal candidate:

Has exceptional mechanical aptitude and an instinctive understanding of machinery.
Has personally designed complex automated equipment and understands what constitutes good machine design.
Can move comfortably between detailed technical discussions and strategic leadership conversations.
Develops people rather than simply directing work.
Sets a high technical bar while creating an environment where engineers are encouraged to learn, challenge assumptions, and innovate.
Builds strong partnerships across Operations and technical functions.
Uses data and engineering fundamentals to drive decisions.
Thinks beyond today's equipment problem and considers how engineering decisions affect reliability, maintainability, scalability, and future manufacturing capability.
Has successfully led a mechanical engineering organization and is ready to broaden their leadership scope across multiple engineering disciplines.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role will be demonstrated through a stronger and more capable engineering organization, improved equipment performance, increased OEE, faster resolution of chronic manufacturing problems, and the development of engineering leaders capable of supporting Flex's next generation of manufacturing technology.

Pay: $146,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Referral program
Retirement plan
Tuition reimbursement
Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

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operating engineer jobs in illinois

Senior Group Engineering Manager - Automated Manufacturing

CNC Technology Center Technician

Senior Process Engineer

Product & Process Reliability Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

CNC Troubleshooting and Repair Mechanic

Process Improvement Engineer - Decatur, IL

Quality Assurance Calibration & Metrology Specialist

SWISS CNC Set-Up Operator

CNC Operator and Programmer

Project Engineer

CNC OD Grinding Machinist

Quality Engineer

Stationary Engineer- IL- Campus Facilities- 2nd Shift

Journeyman Shop Mechanic

Manufacturing Process Engineer

Field Mechanic

Field Service Engineer

Application Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

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