Lead Automation Commissioning Engineer

Overview

Direct-hire engineering role responsible for leading design, integration, and deployment of high-complexity robotic systems across the full project lifecycle.

• TRAVEL: 30% to 40% travel | High-visibility domestic and international commissioning & client startups
• TECH STACK:
  Industrial robotic arms (Fanuc, Yaskawa, ABB), PLC logic, vision tracking, and Solid Works/CAD
• EXPERIENCE:
  
  4 to 6 years of hands-on robotic and PLC industrial automation integration
• EDUCATION:
  
  2-year or 4-year engineering degree required (Electrical, Mechanical, Automation, or Software)
• OVERTIME:
  Paid overtime eligibility on top of baseline salary + premium travel benefits

This role spans the entire project lifecycle from concept to live deployment, focusing on the design, integration, and commissioning of automated robotic cells for customers in diverse industries.

• Start up and initialize complex robotic platforms from scratch, managing frame calibration, mastering, and multi-protocol I/O communication configurations.
• Design complete robot programming architecture, ensuring seamless handshaking logic between articulated arms, central PLCs, and material handling platforms.
• Collaborate directly with internal project leads through the entire build, run-off, and debug lifecycle to guarantee systems meet strict customer performance cycle times.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance during mechanical and electrical assembly, tracking down complex wiring faults, and optimizing advanced end-of-arm tooling (EOAT).
• Integrate, calibrate, and program advanced 2D/3D Vision Systems into robotic cells for high-speed part inspection, sorting, and precision guidance.
• Partner with internal application engineering groups to provide critical technical insights when designing future automation concepts and quoting custom projects.
• Mentor shop assembly technicians and junior automation personnel to ensure build efficiencies remain exceptionally high.

• 4 to 6 years of proven, hands-on field experience configuring, integrating, and commissioning complex robotic arms and PLC-controlled industrial equipment.
• Completed 2-year or 4-year engineering degree (Electrical, Mechanical, Automation, or Software Technology) is required.
• Direct experience utilizing robotic offline simulation software, editing ladder logic, and referencing digital mechanical designs within Solid Works/CAD.
• Expert-level capability diagnosing multi-variant automated system faults across robotic, electrical, fluid power, and mechanical safety domains.
• Practical background setting up, troubleshooting, and programming dedicated vision hardware, lighting arrays, and industrial cameras.
• Full availability to travel 30% to 40% of the year globally to handle customer startups and face-to-face system handoffs.
• Proximity to the facility, with the requirement to reside within a dependable 45-minute daily driving radius of the Brown Deer, WI area shop when not traveling.