Senior Automation Engineer – Advanced Manufacturing
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Senior Automation Engineer leading robotics, welding, and controls projects for Wabtec, a global rail equipment and digital-solutions provider. Driving automation standards, production launches, and scalable manufacturing improvements.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with cross-functional teams across operations, product engineering, maintenance, quality, procurement, IT, OT, EHS, and business leadership
- Identify, develop, deploy, and optimize advanced manufacturing automation solutions across the global supply chain
- Serve as a technical leader focused on machining and fabrication processes
- Develop automation standards, evaluate emerging technologies, share best practices, and drive repeatable solutions
- Lead and support automation systems from development and justification through design, implementation, and optimization
- Evaluate automation opportunities and develop technical concepts and business cases
- Support capital project execution and standardize successful solutions across manufacturing facilities
- Lead automation projects from concept through production launch
- 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
- Lead or 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 the Automation & Advanced Manufacturing roadmap and technology strategy
- Evaluate robotics, vision, simulation, and AI-enabled manufacturing technologies
- Mentor site engineering resources and provide technical leadership
Requirements:
- 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
- Experience with robotic welding and automated joining systems
- Experience with industrial robots, including FANUC, ABB, KUKA, and Yaskawa/Motoman
- Experience with PLCs, HMIs, industrial networking, and controls integration
- Experience with machine vision and inspection systems
- Certified welding experience
- Experience with automated material handling
- Experience with MES, SCADA, OEE, and data collection systems
- Experience with FAT, SAT, commissioning, and production launch
- Lean Green Belt Certification
Benefits:
- Health benefits
- Welfare benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Annual bonus, if eligible
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