Senior Automation Engineer, Welding & Robotics

Wabtec; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 69,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

Wabtec seeks a senior Automation leader to drive manufacturing automation across multiple sites. You will lead projects from concept to launch, develop ROI business cases, and establish welding/joining automation as a technical capability.

Expect collaboration across engineering, operations, IT, and business units, with opportunities to mentor site teams. You will develop standards, evaluate new technologies, and help standardize solutions across the network while supporting enterprise roadmaps

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 tech.
• Mentor site engineering resources and provide technical leadership.

Skills

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Travel willingness

Automation concepts

Education

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

Tools

FANUC robots

ABB robots

KUKA robots

Yaskawa/Motoman robots

PLCs

HMIs

Industrial networking

Machine vision

SCADA

Job description

Wabtec seeks a senior Automation leader to drive manufacturing automation across multiple sites. You will lead projects from concept to launch, develop ROI business cases, and establish welding/joining automation as a technical capability.

Expect collaboration across engineering, operations, IT, and business units, with opportunities to mentor site teams. You will develop standards, evaluate new technologies, and help standardize solutions across the network while supporting enterprise roadmaps