Automation Lead: Welding & Advanced Manufacturing

Wabtec Corporation; Washington; On-site; USD 79,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Annual bonus

Job summary

Wabtec Corporation in Washington state seeks an experienced Automation & Advanced Manufacturing leader to drive welding and joining automation across multiple manufacturing sites. You will define standards, evaluate new technologies, and share best practices to elevate safety, quality, delivery, and productivity.

You will oversee the development, justification, design, implementation, and optimization of manufacturing automation systems, playing a key role as a technical resource and strategy

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant engineering field.
• 7+ years in industrial automation, manufacturing engineering, robotics, controls, or advanced manufacturing.
• Leadership of major automation and capital projects.
• Strong knowledge of robotics, controls, safety, machine integration, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience developing automation concepts, specifications, scopes, and business cases.

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

Automation engineering

Robotics

Controls systems

Capital projects leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Welding automation

Industrial automation

Project leadership

Travel to sites

Education

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

Tools

PLCs

HMIs

Industrial networking

Machine vision

SCADA

Job description

Wabtec Corporation in Washington state seeks an experienced Automation & Advanced Manufacturing leader to drive welding and joining automation across multiple manufacturing sites. You will define standards, evaluate new technologies, and share best practices to elevate safety, quality, delivery, and productivity.

You will oversee the development, justification, design, implementation, and optimization of manufacturing automation systems, playing a key role as a technical resource and strategy