Production Automation Engineer
About The Position
The Production Automation Engineer supports the reliability, performance, and availability of automated manufacturing systems across the facility. As the site’s technical expert in industrial automation, this role troubleshoots and optimizes robotics, CNC equipment, PLCs, vision systems, and manufacturing system integrations to minimize downtime and improve production performance. The position is based in Tampa, Florida, with a hybrid schedule requiring three days onsite per week. The work supports the repair and manufacture of critical aerospace components used across the global aviation industry, contributing to aviation safety and reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 3 years of experience supporting industrial automation equipment in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience troubleshooting PLC-controlled manufacturing systems.
- Experience supporting industrial robotics and automated manufacturing cells.
- Experience supporting CNC equipment and machine-tool automation.
- Working knowledge of industrial communication networks and protocols.
- Working knowledge of SQL databases and relational database concepts.
- Experience integrating or supporting automation systems connected to enterprise relational database platforms.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and root cause analysis skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting robotic vision or automated inspection systems.
- Experience with MES, SCADA, manufacturing historians, or production data-collection systems.
- Experience commissioning equipment upgrades, automation retrofits, or process improvements.
- Experience coordinating technical issue resolution with equipment manufacturers and automation system integrators.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize automated manufacturing equipment, including robotic cells, CNC machines, PLC-controlled systems, vision systems, and material-handling equipment.
- Diagnose automation and controls failures, safely restore equipment, and implement corrective actions to improve reliability and uptime.
- Support industrial robots, including programming, communications, motion control, calibration, tooling configurations, and system backups.
- Troubleshoot CNC communications, automation interfaces, and integrations with robots, conveyors, inspection systems, and peripheral equipment.
- Modify and support PLC and HMI applications, industrial PCs, sensors, drives, servos, VFDs, safety controllers, and industrial networks.
- Maintain control system documentation, electrical drawings, equipment backups, firmware records, and change controls.
- Support integrations between production equipment and MES, SCADA, historian, database, and other enterprise systems.
- Develop and maintain SQL queries, reports, and data-extraction tools used to monitor and analyze production performance.
- Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, IT, equipment manufacturers, and system integrators to resolve technical issues.
- Participate in root cause investigations, equipment upgrades, retrofits, obsolescence planning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Develop standards and best practices for automation system maintenance and support.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
