Robotic Welding Programmer

Job Details

Hosted by:
Amanda Preston

Salary: $65,000 - $75,000 per year

• Create, edit, maintain, and improve robotic welding and automation programs using established standards.
• Independently develop and optimize robotic programs to meet production, quality, and efficiency requirements.
• Support program creation by reading and interpreting drawings, work instructions, engineering data, and production requirements.
• Analyze existing programs and identify opportunities to improve weld consistency, cycle time, uptime, quality, and repeatability.
• Make mechanical and programming adjustments to meet quantity and quality standards.
• Troubleshoot program challenges and support corrective actions to reduce production delays, quality issues, and product inconsistencies.

• Support daily robotic weld cell operation to ensure production needs are met safely and efficiently.
• Assist with tooling, fixture setup, testing, and basic mechanical adjustments.
• Provide flexible support across manufacturing needs and adjust priorities based on changing production demands.
• Partner with maintenance and engineering to improve equipment reliability, robotic cell uptime, and automation performance.
• Serve as an escalation point for production, quality, and automation issues for more senior-level candidates.

• Design, test, implement, and improve tooling and fixtures to support robotic welding production and quality.
• Lead or support fixture setup, fixture troubleshooting, and fixture improvement activity.
• Guide part selection and support the transition of parts or processes from manual welding to robotic welding operations.
• Review and validate engineering information for manufacturability and flag discrepancies, gaps, or design concerns.
• Recommend design improvements or alternative automation methods that improve robotic weldability, quality, uptime, and production flow.

• Support movement of appropriate parts, weldments, and processes from manual welding into robotic operations.
• Evaluate drawings, part geometry, fixtures, and process requirements to determine robotic welding feasibility.
• Partner with engineering and production teams to improve designs and processes for robotic welding success.
• Help standardize robotic welding methods to improve consistency across jobs, parts, and production cells.

• Identify process issues and implement corrective actions that improve safety, quality, production flow, and equipment performance.
• Lead or participate in root cause analysis for robotic welding, automation, fixture, equipment, and quality issues.
• For senior-level candidates, identify systemic issues and lead long-term corrective actions across robotic welding operations.
• Contribute ideas for continuous improvement of workflow, robotic programming, production processes, fixture use, and automation practices.
• Champion safety, continuous improvement, and best-in-class automation practices across the manufacturing floor.

• Communicate effectively with manufacturing, maintenance, engineering, quality, supervisors, technicians, and operators regarding issues, solutions, and production priorities.
• Collaborate with team members to support daily production needs, resolve delays, and improve robotic cell performance.
• Notify management of quality concerns, production delays, equipment issues, engineering discrepancies, or other risks impacting output.
• Work within assigned deadlines and support production timelines while maintaining quality and safety standards.

• Support training of operators and technicians on robotic weld cell operation, safe work practices, and best practices.
• For senior-level candidates, mentor and train technicians across the facility in robotic cell operation, troubleshooting, and automation standards.
• Provide technical direction for complex automation and integration challenges.
• Help build team capability around robotic welding, fixture use, process control,…