Senior Automation Engineer - Welding & Manufacturing

Wabtec Corporation; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 69,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Wabtec Corporation is seeking an Automation & Advanced Manufacturing leader to guide welding automation and robotics initiatives across multiple manufacturing sites. You will drive capital projects, define standards, and implement scalable automation solutions that enhance safety, quality and productivity.

The role blends hands-on project execution with enterprise capability development, mentoring engineers and collaborating with operations, product engineering, maintenance, and EHS teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Automation/Controls, Robotics Engineering or related discipline.
• Strong background in welding automation, robotic welding, or automated machining and fabrication processes.
• 7+ years of industrial automation, manufacturing engineering, robotics, controls, or advanced manufacturing experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of significant automation and capital projects.
• Strong understanding of robotics, controls, safety, machine integration, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience developing automation concepts, specifications, scopes, and business cases.
• Project leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to travel as required to support enterprise manufacturing sites.

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

Automation leadership

Robotics & controls

Welding automation

Capital projects

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel flexibility

Education

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

Tools

PLCs & HMIs

Industrial networking

Machine vision

FAT/SAT

SCADA/MES data collection

Job description

Wabtec Corporation is seeking an Automation & Advanced Manufacturing leader to guide welding automation and robotics initiatives across multiple manufacturing sites. You will drive capital projects, define standards, and implement scalable automation solutions that enhance safety, quality and productivity.

The role blends hands-on project execution with enterprise capability development, mentoring engineers and collaborating with operations, product engineering, maintenance, and EHS teams.