Senior Automation & Robotics Engineer

Adient; Murfreesboro (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Adient is seeking an Automation / Robot Specialist to own automation performance in manufacturing operations. You will develop, integrate, optimize, and troubleshoot PLC, robot, vision, motion, safety, and industrial communication systems to improve cycle time, throughput, quality, and uptime.

You will provide hands-on launch and stabilization support, apply root-cause analysis, and deliver reliable systems with documentation to sustainment teams.

Qualifications

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Technology, Robotics, Automation, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• At least five years of hands-on experience programming, integrating, optimizing, and troubleshooting industrial automation and robotic systems in a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Own automation system performance and conduct daily optimization of automated cells to improve cycle time, throughput, quality, and equipment uptime.
• Develop, modify, test, and troubleshoot PLC, HMI, robot, vision, motion-control, safety, and supporting automation programs.
• Optimize robot paths, motion profiles, process sequencing, interlocks, alarms, and recovery routines while maintaining safe operation.
• Use structured root-cause analysis and corrective action to permanently eliminate chronic equipment and process failures.
• Configure, calibrate, validate, and maintain vision systems, sensors, error-proofing devices, servo systems, and networked industrial devices.
• Support equipment installation, commissioning, launch, and the first 90 days of stabilization in partnership with the AMA Lead and cross-functional plant teams.
• Perform offline programming, reach studies, cycle-time simulation, risk assessment, and system validation before production implementation.
• Manage program revisions through formal backup and version-control practices and maintain clear technical documentation, schematics, and network diagrams.
• Train sustainment personnel and complete a stable handoff after launch, including known issues, recovery procedures, validated backups, and performance status.
• Track performance against cycle-time achievement, direct-labor reduction, repeat-failure elimination, and stabilization-phase uptime targets.

Skills

Troubleshooting skills

Education

Engineering degree

Related experience accepted

Tools

Rockwell ControlLogix

Studio 5000

FactoryTalk View

Kinetix motion control

GuardLogix

Fanuc programming

Fanuc Roboguide

iRVision 2D/3D

Cognex VisionPro

EtherNet/IP

Profinet/Profibus

RS-232

Modbus RTU

OPC UA

Git

SVN

Visio

Factory I/O

FlexSim

Job description

Adient is seeking an Automation / Robot Specialist to own automation performance in manufacturing operations. You will develop, integrate, optimize, and troubleshoot PLC, robot, vision, motion, safety, and industrial communication systems to improve cycle time, throughput, quality, and uptime.

You will provide hands-on launch and stabilization support, apply root-cause analysis, and deliver reliable systems with documentation to sustainment teams.