Senior Automation Engineer — Welding & Robotics Leader

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

Job summary

Wabtec invites an experienced Automation & Advanced Manufacturing leader to join our team in Michigan. You will lead automation projects across multiple sites, focusing on welding and joining automation, robotics, and advanced manufacturing systems to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance.

You will develop standards, justify business cases, and mentor site engineering resources while collaborating with operations, product engineering, maintenance, IT, and suppliers.

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

Industrial automation

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Robotics & controls

Welding automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Mechatronics

Job description

Wabtec invites an experienced Automation & Advanced Manufacturing leader to join our team in Michigan. You will lead automation projects across multiple sites, focusing on welding and joining automation, robotics, and advanced manufacturing systems to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance.

You will develop standards, justify business cases, and mentor site engineering resources while collaborating with operations, product engineering, maintenance, IT, and suppliers.