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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, robotics, industrial automation, manufacturing, or a related field.
• 3–5+ years of experience in logistics automation, technological feasibility mapping, manufacturing systems, or equipment validation and launch.
• Familiarity with ANSI/RIA R15.08, ISO 3691-4, UL 3100, and the VDA 5050 communication standard.
• Hands-on familiarity with industrial networking, MQTT protocols, TCP/IP architectures, and PLC communications.
• Working understanding of autonomous mobility systems, including navigation, localization, fleet management, and traffic orchestration, sufficient to validate behavior and troubleshoot.
• Experience validating or launching automated equipment in a production environment, including test planning and execution.
• Plant-floor troubleshooting ability, including reading logs, isolating faults across system boundaries, and distinguishing a defect from a test artifact.
• Ability and willingness to travel 5–10% to plants in the United States, Canada, and Mexico as required.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Experience deploying autonomous mobility or material-handling systems in high-volume manufacturing.
• Competency with ROS/ROS2, Linux environments, and Python/C++.
• Familiarity with plant logistics, including PFEP, MHE, kitting, line-side delivery, and route design.
• Familiarity with ISO 3691-4, ANSI/RIA R15.08, ISO 13849, and VDA 5050.
• Familiarity with Ford GVOSS, GME-707, GPDS, safety, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Exposure to autonomous or driverless programs and shared-floor automated traffic.
• Experience with virtual commissioning, PLC safety, or industrial networking.
• Experience with reporting tools such as Power BI or analysis using Python or SQL.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate technical feasibility of prospective AMR models for factory and warehouse applications, including cross-docking, line-side delivery, and heavy pallet movement.
• Assess how OEM specifications, such as kinematics, turning radius, and navigation style, match operational facility constraints.
• Prepare engineering trade-off matrices comparing technology stacks, such as SLAM versus QR-code navigation and inductive versus opportunity charging.
• Define technical requirements and statements of work, and hold suppliers accountable to acceptance criteria.
• Enforce hardware safety requirements and verify conformance with applicable standards and certifications.
• Verify software interoperability and audit fleet compliance with open communication protocols and multi-vendor interoperability standards.
• Audit fleet software cybersecurity benchmarks and prepare evidence packages for Plant Safety and Cybersecurity approval boards.
• Execute validation plans for normal operations, degraded conditions, and failure scenarios, and document results.
• Validate localization maps, routes, parameters, fleet software integration, and safety functions for go-live readiness.
• Support plant-floor commissioning, physical optimization, and production launch.
• Troubleshoot faults in routing, traffic flow, fleet software, network connectivity, and equipment, and identify root causes.
• Partner with MP&L to translate material-flow needs, including line-side delivery, kitting, small-lot routes, and rack movement, into practical deployments.
• Coordinate floor readiness and layout with Manufacturing Engineering, IT, plant operations, UAW representation, and production teams.
• Manage supplier integration, acceptance testing, and resolution of open issues.
• Support integration with plant execution systems, industrial networks, PLCs, and safety devices.
• Use simulation and digital twins to support replication and pre-deployment verification.
• Monitor post-launch availability, throughput, and downtime metrics and apply lessons to future sites.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.