Automation Engineer – Advanced Manufacturing

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $79.1k - $112.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🤖 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 • Identify, develop, deploy, and automate 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 the development, justification, design, implementation, and optimization of manufacturing automation systems • Evaluate automation opportunities and develop technical concepts and business cases • Support capital project execution and standardize and replicate successful solutions across manufacturing facilities • Lead automation projects from concept through production launch • Develop capital estimates and ROI business cases • Serve as enterprise technical capability owner for welding and joining automation • Develop automation standards, specifications, and preferred technologies • Support multiple manufacturing sites and business units • Lead or support vendor selection, RFQs, design reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup • Troubleshoot and optimize existing automation systems • Evaluate emerging technologies including robotics, vision, simulation, and AI-enabled manufacturing • 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 • Robotic welding and automated joining systems • Experience with industrial robots, including FANUC, ABB, KUKA, and Yaskawa/Motoman • PLCs, HMIs, industrial networking, and controls integration • Machine vision and inspection systems • Certified welding experience • Automated material handling • MES, SCADA, OEE, and data collection systems • FAT, SAT, commissioning, and production launch • Lean Green Belt Certification

🏖️ Benefits

• Health benefits • Welfare benefits • Retirement benefits • Annual bonus, if eligible • Equal Opportunity Employer support and accommodation