Site Automation Lead
About The Position
Fulfil is redefining the grocery supply chain through advanced robotics and automation. Backed by world-class investors and led by a seasoned team, we are hiring a Site Automation Lead to provide operational coverage for our automated high speed grocery fulfillment system. In this role, you’ll serve as the bridge between partner operations, maintenance, and Fulfil engineering — ensuring safe, reliable, high-performance system operation. Unique opportunity: Pre-launch, take part in site deployment, from bring-up and commissioning, through partner handover and site acceptance testing, into full production. Requirements: Open availability from May through November, with a standardized production schedule in place by Q4 2026.
Requirements
- Experience in robotics, automation, industrial equipment, technical field support, or similar environments.
- Strong mechanical/electrical aptitude and comfort working hands-on with hardware.
- Safety first mentality, adhering to OSHA guidelines while prioritizing a safe work environment.
- Clear communicator with ability to explain complex system behavior simply.
- Calm, detail-oriented decision-maker who performs well under pressure.
- Comfortable using dashboards, logs, and diagnostic tools; experience with metric reporting.
- Reliable, self-motivated, and able to operate with a high degree of ownership.
- Flexible schedule — preference for candidates with open availability.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to warehouse automation, robotics platforms, PLCs, or industrial systems.
- Familiarity with Linux, telemetry tools, firmware process flows, or diagnostics.
- Experience supporting deployments, pilots, commissioning, or on-call rotations.
- Experience with tools like Slack, Jira, Excel, or digital workflow platforms.
Responsibilities
- Monitor daytime performance and conduct health checks of Fulfil’s robotic automation systems.
- Perform Tier-1 troubleshooting; triage issues, complete minor interventions as needed (e.g., sensor checks, part swaps, clearing obstructions), and support investigations and post-mortems.
- Support maintenance by documenting issues clearly and handing off higher-complexity work.
- Act as the on-call technical and operational escalation point for partner teams.
- Make real-time decisions that balance system uptime, safety, and production needs.
- Track and report reliability metrics to contribute toward achieving uptime goals.
- Ensure a safe operating environment through routine audits and adherence to procedures.
- Own scheduling, team coordination, site preparedness, and operator skill development.
- Maintain and update operational documentation for production processes and human-machine interaction.
- Accountable for weekly ticket management and reporting of site performance.
- Communicate system behaviors and findings to robotics, firmware, software, and product engineering teams.
- Participate in structured testing, validation, and rollout of new features and hardware.
- Contribute to root-cause investigations and provide actionable feedback to engineering.
- Help refine operating procedures and support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide steady, high-confidence technical support to onsite partner operators.
Benefits
- Full medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
