Automation Engineer: Advanced Manufacturing

Wabtec Corporation; United (PA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Wabtec Corporation is seeking an Automation & Advanced Manufacturing engineer to partner with operations, product engineering, maintenance, quality, procurement, IT, OT, and EHS teams to deliver automated manufacturing solutions across multiple sites. The role emphasizes hands-on robotics, safety standards, and scalable automation concepts for high-volume production environments.

Ideal candidates will have 3+ years in industrial automation, strong robotics experience (FANUC/ABB/KUKA), and the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Automation/Controls, Robotics Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of industrial automation, manufacturing engineering, robotics, controls, or advanced manufacturing experience.
• Hands-on experience applying industrial robots and automation equipment in a production environment.
• Ability to design automation concepts, cell layouts, tooling approaches, and equipment interfaces.
• Experience with robot or manufacturing simulation, offline programming, or digital manufacturing tools.
• Strong understanding of machine safety, controls, integration, manufacturing processes, and production readiness.
• Effective project execution, problem-solving, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to travel as required to support enterprise manufacturing sites.

Responsibilities

• Evaluating automation opportunities, creating layouts and simulations, developing technical concepts and specifications.
• Supporting capital project execution, and helping replicate successful solutions across manufacturing facilities.
• Collaborating to optimize robotics, automation, machine integration, simulation, vision, and advanced manufacturing systems.
• Performing robot reach, payload, interference, and process simulations to reduce project risk.
• Participating in vendor selection, RFQs, design reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup.
• Working with controls, manufacturing, quality, maintenance, EHS, suppliers, and integrators to resolve technical issues.
• Troubleshooting and optimizing existing robotic and automated manufacturing systems.
• Documenting lessons learned and helping replicate successful automation solutions across sites.
• Supporting Automation & Advanced Manufacturing standards, roadmap, and preferred technology strategy.
• Evaluating emerging technologies including robotics, vision, simulation, digital twins, and AI-enabled manufacturing.
• Providing hands-on technical support and knowledge sharing for site engineering teams.

Skills

Automation experience

Industrial robots

Robot simulation

Safety compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Project execution

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Automation/Controls, Robotics Engineering, or a related discipline

Job description

Wabtec Corporation is seeking an Automation & Advanced Manufacturing engineer to partner with operations, product engineering, maintenance, quality, procurement, IT, OT, and EHS teams to deliver automated manufacturing solutions across multiple sites. The role emphasizes hands-on robotics, safety standards, and scalable automation concepts for high-volume production environments.

Ideal candidates will have 3+ years in industrial automation, strong robotics experience (FANUC/ABB/KUKA), and the