Automation Engineer

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🌐 United Kingdom, United States – Remote

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💵 $68.9k - $98.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 QA Automation Engineer

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Wabtec Corporation

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10,000+ employees

🚗 Transport

🏭 Manufacturing

☁️ SaaS

💰 $3M Post-IPO Equity - Wabtec on 2025-07

Transport • Manufacturing • SaaS

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value‑added services for freight rail, transit, mining, industrial and marine markets. The company designs and manufactures locomotives, freight cars, braking and coupler systems, HVAC and electrical components, power generation and heat‑transfer equipment, and elastomer products, while also offering maintenance, remanufacturing, digital intelligence (including cloud-based Port Optimizer and train/asset monitoring), signaling and train control, and onshore power solutions. Wabtec emphasizes sustainability and decarbonization (battery-electric locomotives, green friction materials, shore power) alongside performance upgrades, optimization software, and asset management services.

📋 Description

• Partner with cross-functional teams across operations, product engineering, maintenance, quality, procurement, IT, OT, EHS, and business leadership • Develop and deploy automation solutions for machining, fabrication, assembly, material handling, and related manufacturing processes • Evaluate automation opportunities and convert manufacturing needs into safe, repeatable, production-ready concepts • Create automation concepts, layouts, simulations, cycle-time estimates, and technical specifications • Perform robot reach, payload, interference, and process simulations to reduce project risk • Support capital estimates, ROI business cases, equipment scopes, and project documentation • Participate in vendor selection, RFQs, design reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup • Work with controls, manufacturing, quality, maintenance, EHS, suppliers, and integrators to resolve technical issues • Troubleshoot and optimize existing robotic and automated manufacturing systems • Document lessons learned and replicate successful automation solutions across manufacturing sites • Support automation standards, roadmap, and preferred technology strategy • Evaluate emerging technologies including robotics, vision, simulation, digital twins, and AI-enabled manufacturing • Provide hands-on technical support and knowledge sharing for site engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Automation/Controls, Robotics Engineering, or a related discipline • 3+ years of industrial automation, manufacturing engineering, robotics, controls, or advanced manufacturing experience • Hands-on experience applying industrial robots and automation equipment in a production environment • Ability to design automation concepts, cell layouts, tooling approaches, and equipment interfaces • Experience with robot or manufacturing simulation, offline programming, or digital manufacturing tools • Strong understanding of machine safety, controls, integration, manufacturing processes, and production readiness • Effective project execution, problem-solving, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills • Ability to travel as required to support enterprise manufacturing sites • Experience with industrial robots; FANUC preferred, with ABB, KUKA, or Yaskawa/Motoman also valuable • Experience with robot simulation and offline programming tools such as FANUC ROBOGUIDE, Process Simulate, Visual Components, or equivalent • Experience with 3D CAD, equipment layouts, reach studies, cycle-time analysis, and design-for-automation • Experience with machine vision, inspection, and robotic guidance systems • Experience with automated material handling, end-of-arm tooling, fixtures, and sensor integration • Knowledge of PLCs, HMIs, industrial networking, MES, SCADA, OEE, or manufacturing data systems • Experience with FAT, SAT, commissioning, production launch, and structured root-cause problem solving • Lean or Six Sigma certification preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, welfare, and retirement benefits • Annual bonus, if eligible • Remote work arrangement