Manufacturing Functional Consultant, Automated Solutions FTC)

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Are you ready to shape how cutting-edge technologies are positioned, understood, and adopted by real markets? At Venture One, we build ventures and commercialize breakthrough technologies emerging from advanced research. Our focus spans Aerospace and Space, Security and Defense, Sustainability, Environment and Energy, and Transportation, with technologies across Cryptography, Secure Systems, Directed Energy, Advanced Materials, Autonomous Systems, and more.

Are you ready to shape how cutting-edge technologies are positioned, understood, and adopted by real markets? At Venture One, we build ventures and commercialize breakthrough technologies emerging from advanced research. Our focus spans Aerospace and Space, Security and Defense, Sustainability, Environment and Energy, and Transportation, with technologies across Cryptography, Secure Systems, Directed Energy, Advanced Materials, Autonomous Systems, and more.

The Manufacturing Functional Consultant - Robotics & CNC supports the Factory Process / Industrial Engineering Lead by defining and detailing the shop-floor functional requirements for discrete manufacturing processes, with a particular focus on CNC machining, robotic assembly lines, automated inspection/testing, and material-handling interfaces.

The role works directly with manufacturing users, machine OEMs, robotics integrators, automation vendors, MES/digital teams, and package managers to translate production operations into clear functional workflows, use cases, system requirements, and acceptance scenarios.

The position combines hands‑on manufacturing‑domain knowledge with functional consulting capability, ensuring that automation solutions reflect how the shop floor must operate during normal production, product changeovers, equipment faults, quality failures, rework, maintenance interventions, and other real‑world operating conditions.

• Develop detailed shop-floor functional workflows for CNC machining, robotic assembly, inspection, testing, material movement, and supporting production activities.
• Translate manufacturing operations into functional requirements, use cases, user stories, process logic, and acceptance criteria for automation, controls, MES, and digital teams.
• Develop detailed process maps, swimlane diagrams, station workflows, sequence diagrams, and exception-flow diagrams covering interactions between operators, machines, robots, PLCs, MES, quality systems, and material-handling systems.
• Support CNC shop-floor functional design covering, production-order release and job sequencing, CNC program and recipe selection, machine and pallet assignment, tool and fixture readiness, robotic / automated machine tending, first-part setup and probing, in-process and post-process inspection, CMM routing, OK / rework / reject disposition, buffering and downstream material release.
• Define functional requirements for robotic assembly cells and automated assembly lines, including, part and variant identification, automated loading and unloading, fixture and jig selection, robotic pick/place and positioning, fastening and torque operations, adhesive / sealant dispensing, insertion and joining operations, harness and connector assembly, vision-based inspection, station interlocks, station progression and routing, test and quality gates.
• Analyse manufacturing exception scenarios such as machine downtime, robot faults, missing parts, incorrect variants, failed inspections, failed torque, failed tests, blocked downstream stations, rework, quarantine, and manual recovery.
• Define and document normal, abnormal, and recovery workflows so that automation vendors design for real shop-floor operating conditions rather than only nominal…