Industrial Automation Performance Engineer

Adient plc; Normal (IL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Adient plc is seeking an Automation / Robot Specialist to own and optimize automation performance across PLC, robot, and vision systems within its Normal, Illinois manufacturing operations. The role focuses on reducing cycle times, increasing throughput, and ensuring system uptime while maintaining safety and documentation standards.

You will launch, stabilize, and sustain automation solutions with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Requires hands-on experience with PLCs, robotics, vision, motion-control, and safety systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex automation challenges and implement root-cause analysis.
• Experience documenting systems, schematics, and network diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Own automation system performance and daily optimization of automated cells.
• Develop, modify, test, and troubleshoot PLC, HMI, robot, vision, motion-control, safety, and automation programs.
• Optimize robot paths, motion profiles, sequencing, interlocks, alarms, and recovery routines.
• Use root-cause analysis to eliminate recurring failures.
• Configure, calibrate, validate, and maintain vision systems, sensors, and networked devices.
• Support installation, commissioning, launch, and stabilization in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Perform offline programming, reach studies, cycle-time simulation, and risk assessment.
• Manage revisions and maintain documentation, schematics, and network diagrams.
• Train sustainment personnel and hand off with known issues and recovery procedures.
• Track performance against cycle-time, throughput, quality, and uptime targets.

Skills

PLC programming

Robot programming

Vision systems

Motion control

Safety compliance

HMI programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Automation or equivalent

Tools

Ethernet/IP / Modbus

Vision systems software

Job description

Adient plc is seeking an Automation / Robot Specialist to own and optimize automation performance across PLC, robot, and vision systems within its Normal, Illinois manufacturing operations. The role focuses on reducing cycle times, increasing throughput, and ensuring system uptime while maintaining safety and documentation standards.

You will launch, stabilize, and sustain automation solutions with cross-functional teams.