Automation Engineer – Welding & Robotics for Manufacturing

Wabtec; United States; On-site; USD 79,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

Wabtec seeks an OpEx - Automation Engineer specializing in advanced manufacturing to drive welding and automated machining across global sites. You will lead projects from concept through production, partnering with operations, engineering, maintenance, quality, IT, OT, and EHS to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

The role emphasizes developing automation standards, evaluating new tech, and mentoring site engineers while shaping the automation roadmap and vendor engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Automation/Controls, or related field.
• Experience in welding automation, robotic welding, or automated machining and fabrication.
• 7+ years in industrial automation, manufacturing engineering, robotics, controls, or advanced manufacturing.
• Proven leadership of large automation and capital projects.
• Strong understanding of robotics, controls, safety, machine integration, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience developing automation concepts, specs, scopes, and business cases.
• Project leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation projects from concept through production launch.
• Evaluate manufacturing processes and identify automation opportunities.
• Develop technical concepts, capital estimates, and ROI business cases.
• Serve as enterprise technical capability owner for welding and joining automation.
• Develop automation standards, specifications, and preferred technologies.
• Support multiple manufacturing sites and business units based on priorities.
• Lead/vendor selection, RFQs, design reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning and startup.
• Troubleshoot and optimize existing automation systems.
• Identify and replicate successful solutions across sites.
• Support Automation & Advanced Manufacturing roadmap and technology strategy.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including robotics, vision, simulation, and AI-enabled manufacturing.
• Mentor site engineering resources and provide technical leadership.

Skills

Industrial automation

Robotics

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel readiness

Education

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

Tools

PLCs

HMIs

Industrial networking

Controls integration

Machine vision

Job description

Wabtec seeks an OpEx - Automation Engineer specializing in advanced manufacturing to drive welding and automated machining across global sites. You will lead projects from concept through production, partnering with operations, engineering, maintenance, quality, IT, OT, and EHS to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost.

The role emphasizes developing automation standards, evaluating new tech, and mentoring site engineers while shaping the automation roadmap and vendor engagements.