Automation Engineer

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $126.2k - $189.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 QA Automation Engineer

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TE Connectivity

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10,000+ employees

🚘 Automotive

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-01

Automotive • Healthcare • Logistics

TE Connectivity is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, renewable energy, automated factories, data centers, medical technology and more. With customers in over 140 countries across 20 industries, you can touch billions of lives and ignite a transformative spark through your work.

📋 Description

• Identify, develop, and deploy scalable automation solutions for assembly processes including feeding, orientation, insertion, crimping, joining, adjustment, marking, inspection, and test • Assess current-state processes and define the appropriate automation level: manual aids, semi-automatic, or fully automatic • Develop automation concepts, process requirements, layouts, cycle time models, and technical documentation • Develop modular, standard automation platforms deployable across multiple sites • Partner with site engineering and operations teams to define user requirements, process capability needs, and acceptance criteria • Prepare equipment specifications, Statements of Work, and RFQ packages • Lead and participate in supplier design reviews • Manage technical delivery through build, FAT, installation, SAT, commissioning, and ramp-up • Integrate machine vision systems into assembly, inspection, and test equipment • Define inspection requirements including features, tolerances, lighting, optics, and reject handling • Select, configure, and validate inspection solutions with vision suppliers • Apply controls fundamentals to review machine designs and support troubleshooting • Promote reliable, maintainable designs, standard components, and preferred controls architectures • Participate in machine safety and risk assessment reviews • Analyze downtime, failure, and OEE data; lead root cause analysis and corrective actions • Build business cases and capital justification packages quantifying labor, capacity, quality, safety, risk-reduction benefits, and ROI • Support supplier identification, RFQ issue, technical bid comparison, and supplier selection • Support procurement activities including purchase requisitions, technical clarifications, NDA and IP considerations, and milestone payment criteria • Apply Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and TEOA principles to eliminate waste before automation • Support Kaizen events, value stream mapping, standard work, mistake-proofing, and flow improvements • Collaborate with site teams and suppliers across multiple locations to deliver robust, scalable automation solutions

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Person as defined by ITAR: U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident, or protected individual • Able to access export-controlled information • Willing to travel 25%–50% domestically and internationally • 3+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, automation engineering, or process development within a production environment • Background in small-component or precision assembly manufacturing • Experience scoping, specifying, and delivering automation equipment with external machine builders or integrators • Demonstrated application of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement methods • Preferred: experience in connector assembly or relay manufacturing • Preferred: hands-on experience integrating vision systems such as Cognex or Keyence • Preferred: working knowledge of PLC platforms such as Rockwell, Siemens, or Beckhoff, servo and motion control, and robotics • Preferred: experience building business cases and supporting capital equipment procurement • Preferred: experience in Aerospace, Defense, Medical, or other regulated manufacturing environments • Preferred: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher, or TEOA training • Preferred: exposure to machine safety standards, risk assessment, and safety-related control systems • Preferred: exposure to digital manufacturing, machine connectivity, or OEE monitoring systems • Technical knowledge of assembly automation and small-part handling • Equipment specification, SOW and RFQ development, and technical bid evaluation • Machine vision application and integration • Controls fundamentals: PLC, HMI, servo and motion, sensors, and industrial networks • Equipment reliability, OEE analysis, and maintainability • Root cause analysis and structured problem solving using 8D, DMAIC, 5 Why, and Fishbone • Process validation, capability studies, PFMEA, and risk assessment • Business case development and ROI analysis • Lean tools including VSM, standard work, 5S, SMED, poka-yoke, and Kaizen

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) • Disability insurance • Life insurance • Employee stock purchase plan • Paid time off • Voluntary benefits • Incentive(s) as part of total compensation

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