Senior Automation Engineer: Welding & Advanced Manufacturing

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 91,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Annual bonus, if eligible

Job summary

Wabtec is seeking an Opex-Senior Automation Engineer for Advanced Manufacturing to lead welding and joining automation initiatives across multiple sites. You will partner with operations, engineering, maintenance, quality, IT, and other teams to deliver safe, high-quality, and cost-effective automation solutions.

You will drive standards, evaluate new technologies, and mentor site engineers while managing capital projects and ensuring successful production launches in a global manufacturing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Automation/Controls, or Robotics Engineering.
• 7+ years of industrial automation, manufacturing engineering, robotics, controls, or advanced manufacturing experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of significant automation and capital projects.

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 business priorities.
• Lead/support 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

Welding automation

Robotics

Automation/controls

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel willingness

Education

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

Tools

PLCs

HMIs

Machine vision systems

Welding equipment

Job description

Wabtec is seeking an Opex-Senior Automation Engineer for Advanced Manufacturing to lead welding and joining automation initiatives across multiple sites. You will partner with operations, engineering, maintenance, quality, IT, and other teams to deliver safe, high-quality, and cost-effective automation solutions.

You will drive standards, evaluate new technologies, and mentor site engineers while managing capital projects and ensuring successful production launches in a global manufacturing