Senior Global Automation, Technology Engineer

🕒 October 22

🌽 Illinois, Iowa, +11 more states – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌾 Iowa – Remote 🐎 Kentucky – Remote 🌾 Nebraska – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $95k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Smithfield Foods

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1936

🏭 Manufacturing

🌾 Agriculture

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Manufacturing • Agriculture • Food & Beverage

Smithfield Foods is a leading global food company and the world's largest pork processor and hog producer. The company offers high-quality meat products under a variety of popular brand names, including Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan’s Famous, and Carando. Smithfield Foods is renowned for its innovative approaches, combining tradition with technology, to drive the future of food. The company is committed to sustainability, supporting communities, and producing safe, affordable, and high-quality food products. In addition to its core operations, Smithfield Foods actively engages in community support endeavors, such as addressing food insecurity and supporting veterans.

📋 Description

• Lead the qualification and deployment of controls, robotics, machine vision, inspection, and automation technologies supporting processing, packaging, and end-of-line operations. • Serve as the technical authority for automation architecture, machine safety, controls integration, and regulatory compliance. • Support strategic technology collaboration between U.S. and China operations. • Identify proven automation technologies and best practices deployed within China facilities and evaluate their applicability for U.S. operations. • Collaborate with global equipment manufacturers and technology developers to develop, pilot, and scale innovative automation, robotics, inspection, and digital manufacturing solutions. • Lead development, review, and standardization of controls architectures, PLCs, HMIs, industrial networks, data collection platforms, and enterprise automation standards across global operations. • Lead qualification, validation, and acceptance testing of automation, robotics, machine vision, inspection technologies, and advanced manufacturing systems. • Conduct machine safety assessments and controls reviews for regulatory and corporate safety compliance. • Partner with U.S., China, and WH Group engineering teams to evaluate, transfer, adapt, and standardize manufacturing technologies and solutions. • Collaborate with OEMs, technology developers, and internal stakeholders on next-generation automation, robotics, machine vision, AI-enabled inspection, and digital manufacturing technologies. • Evaluate and qualify processing controls, packaging systems, robotics, machine vision, X-ray, metal detection, checkweighing, traceability, and end-of-line automation solutions. • Conduct supplier audits, factory evaluations, equipment reviews, and system validation activities. • Serve as controls, automation, or engineering lead and subject matter expert for strategic capital projects, including equipment design review, U.S. compliance modifications, and implementation support.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Automation Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of relevant experience in industrial automation, controls, robotics, or manufacturing engineering; or equivalent combination of education and experience required. • Strong knowledge of PLCs, HMIs, industrial networking, controls architecture, and machine safety systems. • Experience qualifying and validating manufacturing equipment. • Experience with robotics, machine vision, inspection technologies, and safety systems. • Experience working with global engineering teams, international OEMs, and multi-site manufacturing organizations preferred. • Knowledge of OSHA, ANSI, RIA, NFPA, UL, and electrical code requirements. • Excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills. • Ability to travel domestically greater than 50% and internationally as required. • Mandarin language skills and functional safety certifications are a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Relocation Package Available • Comprehensive total rewards package • Equal opportunity employment • Reasonable accommodations during the employment selection process

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