Senior Robotics Engineering Leader

Nestle; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 158,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Healthcare coverage

Incentives and benefits

Job summary

Nestlé Purina seeks an experienced Senior Robotics Engineering Expert to lead strategy, validation, standardization, and deployment of robotics across our U.S. factory network.

You will transform emerging capabilities into safe, reliable, and financially sound solutions that boost safety, productivity, and quality. You will evaluate vendors and systems, guide pilots, develop business cases, and expand successful solutions across sites, while coordinating with cross-functional teams and external

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in industrial robotics, automation, technology scaling, or autonomous material movement in a manufacturing, industrial or related environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a three- to five-year robotics roadmap for United States manufacturing operations by prioritizing opportunities, establishing deployment criteria and standard system designs, and expanding successful pilot programs across sites.
• Lead the end-to-end development of automated robotics solutions such as humanoids, drones, or other emerging technologies. Evaluate manual work processes and identify practical automation opportunities through solution design, readiness assessment, proof-of-concept testing, pilot deployment, and implementation.
• Establish scalable standards for autonomous mobile robots, automated guided vehicles, intelligent forklifts, and fleet-management systems that move materials and products between warehouse and production operations.
• Identify, benchmark, evaluate, and manage robotics suppliers and partners; assess their technical capabilities and readiness to inform sourcing and partnership decisions.
• Evaluate technical feasibility and quantify potential improvements in safety, productivity, quality, cost, and return on investment; track results and recommend whether solutions should be expanded, revised, or discontinued
• Define requirements for safety, hygienic design, cybersecurity, operational technology and information technology integration, controls, commissioning, maintenance, training, documentation, and lifecycle support to deliver sustainable, factory-ready solutions
• Lead cross-functional change-management efforts with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Safety, Quality, Supply Chain, Procurement, Digital Manufacturing, and external suppliers by influencing stakeholders, addressing concerns, gaining buy-in, and creating shared ownership and value that support adoption and strengthen robotics capabilities

Skills

Robotics strategy

Leadership

Vendor evaluation

Pilot deployments

Cross-site collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Job description

Nestlé Purina seeks an experienced Senior Robotics Engineering Expert to lead strategy, validation, standardization, and deployment of robotics across our U.S. factory network.

You will transform emerging capabilities into safe, reliable, and financially sound solutions that boost safety, productivity, and quality. You will evaluate vendors and systems, guide pilots, develop business cases, and expand successful solutions across sites, while coordinating with cross-functional teams and external