Automation Engineer – Battery Recycling & Process Automation

R3 Lithium Inc.; Covington (GA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

R3 Lithium Inc. Covington, Georgia is seeking an Automation Engineer to lead process automation across our lithium manufacturing facility.

You will design, implement, and optimize control systems for handling, disassembly, and processing spent EV batteries, with a focus on reliability and data integrity. The role requires a technical degree and hands-on experience in industrial automation, with travel opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or technical diploma in Electrical, Process Controls, or Chemical Engineering with automation experience.
• 5+ years of experience in controls design, programming, and troubleshooting in manufacturing.
• Experience with control panel design and low voltage electrical systems.
• Knowledge of Siemens or Allen-Bradley programming is a plus.
• Strong data-driven decision making and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Provide process automation leadership for capital projects, including technical specification and standard creation, vendor selection and qualification, instrumentation and control system design review and approval, FAT, SAT, installation, commissioning, startup, and process optimization.
• Interface with EPC firms and construction contractors to effectively design and execute plant automation and data management systems
• Lead efficiency improvement automation projects in multiple brown and green field sites. Modify and debug process control systems to achieve continuous process optimization and downtime reduction.
• Interface with R&D team and contractors to implement automation systems of new processes
• Work with Quality team on quality control data management
• Support the production plant’s technical staff to meet plant metrics with robust processes and quality systems based on the APQP tool kit.
• Lead RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and troubleshooting effort to resolve process controls upset and product quality deviations
• Liaise IT team and contractor on providing enterprise production data reporting and analysis to corporate management
• Other duties and responsibilities consistent with the Employees position

Skills

Controls design

Programming

Troubleshooting

Industrial automation

Reading drawings

AutoCAD

Siemens/AB PLC

APQP tools

Lean & Six Sigma

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree or technical diploma in Electrical, Process Controls, or Chemical Engineering

Tools

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

APQP tools

FMEA

SPC

Lean Six Sigma

AutoCAD

MS Office

Job description

R3 Lithium Inc. Covington, Georgia is seeking an Automation Engineer to lead process automation across our lithium manufacturing facility.

You will design, implement, and optimize control systems for handling, disassembly, and processing spent EV batteries, with a focus on reliability and data integrity. The role requires a technical degree and hands-on experience in industrial automation, with travel opportunities.