Automation Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Supply Chain, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of automation engineering, Business Systems Analyst, Product Analyst, or similar experience.
• Experience gathering, documenting, and managing business and functional requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience participating in software implementation or systems integration projects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience developing process flows, requirements documentation, and test scenarios.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Warehouse Control Systems (WCS), or Warehouse Execution Systems (WES).
• Experience working in distribution centers, supply chain operations, fulfillment, manufacturing, or logistics environments.
• Knowledge of warehouse automation technologies including: Conveyors, Sortation systems, A-Frame systems, OSR systems, Robotics, Automated storage and retrieval systems
• Experience supporting system integrations involving WMS, WCS, ERP, transportation, and automation platforms.
• Experience with startup, commissioning, or large-scale warehouse implementation projects.
• Familiarity with Agile and traditional project delivery methodologies.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to identify business needs, operational challenges, and improvement opportunities.
• Elicit, analyze, document, prioritize, and manage business, functional, and operational requirements.
• Develop user stories, process flows, use cases, business rules, and traceability documentation.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions across business and technology teams.
• Analyze current-state and future-state operational workflows.
• Ensure requirements are aligned with business objectives, operational realities, and technology capabilities.
• Analyze warehouse processes including receiving, putaway, replenishment, picking, packing, sortation, shipping, and inventory movement.
• Understand and document material flow through automated distribution center environments.
• Evaluate impacts of automation solutions on operational processes and workforce activities.
• Assess automation-related workflows involving conveyors, sorters, robotics, A-Frames, OSRs, AMRs, and other material handling systems.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on distribution center operations and warehouse automation processes.
• Document and analyze interactions between WMS, WCS, WES, ERP, transportation systems, and automation equipment.
• Support integration design discussions by translating business and operational requirements into detailed functional requirements.
• Analyze exception handling scenarios, recovery processes, and high-volume transaction workflows.
• Identify system dependencies, data flow requirements, interface impacts, and operational risks.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, vendors, and engineers to ensure solution designs meet business and operational needs.
• Lead or heavily participate in integration testing and operational validation activities.
• Develop test scenarios and validation criteria that reflect real-world distribution center operations.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing and operational readiness assessments.
• Support defect triage, prioritization, root cause analysis, and issue resolution activities.
• Validate end-to-end business processes across multiple systems and automation platforms.
• Ensure solutions perform effectively under operational conditions before deployment.
• Support warehouse startup, expansion, and automation deployment activities.
• Participate in commissioning, cutover, go-live, and hypercare activities.
• Coordinate with operations, engineering teams, vendors, and project stakeholders during implementation.
• Identify operational risks and mitigation strategies.
• Assist in training, change management, and user adoption activities.
• Help develop operational procedures, runbooks, and support documentation.

Benefits

• competitive compensation package
• Total Rewards
• annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered