Manufacturing Technical Specialist

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market‑leading industrial technology company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia.

• This position may be based anywhere in the United States and includes travel as part of the responsibilities.
• This position requires on‑site presence in Crawfordsville, IN, following a hybrid work model and must be present in the office every business day.

The Technical Specialist will support Acuity's Indiana Production Facility (IPF), providing day‑to‑day support necessary for maintaining production and manufacturing efficiencies. The role involves collaborating with Test Development Engineering to resolve end‑of‑line (EOL) test software issues, validating new automated test systems, reporting hardware and software bugs, and ensuring resolution prior to production release. Additionally, the specialist will upgrade existing test systems to improve performance and meet new product requirements, provide timely production support for testing issues, and support initiatives to improve quality, reduce cost, and increase throughput and efficiencies.

• Resolving production EOL test issues and escalating complex issues to higher‑level or other support teams.
• Perform regular EOL test systems maintenance, install new PCs, update test software, and validate to ensure functionality and optimum performance.
• Provide production test support and troubleshoot EOL test failures.
• Support Quality team’s initiatives, goals and objectives, ensuring products are tested correctly to prevent escapes to customers.
• Support troubleshooting and root cause analysis of production test system faults, deploy, test, and validate improvements, and contribute to CAPA and 5‑Whys initiatives.
• Collaborate with Test Development Engineering to validate and release new test systems into production.
• Participate in continuous improvement events such as Kaizen and 5S.
• Train test system users in new hardware, software, or best practices to improve technical literacy and efficiency.
• Assist test system users in resolving hardware, software, or network issues.
• Monitor performance of new testers deployed for new products, ensuring issues detected are mitigated without delay or downtime.
• Support new product introduction and launch to production.
• Work with local vendor and fab house to create testing jigs to reduce cost.
• Create LPM for new CI codes.
• Assist in creation/compilation and upload of luminary model codes for LPM creation.

• High school diploma or equivalent with relevant knowledge and experience.
• Good communication, problem‑solving, and technical knowledge.
• Minimum 6 months to 1 year of experience in a relevant role (manufacturing or electronics is a plus).
• Knowledge and experience or familiarity with automatic production tests for electronics.
• Strong desire to learn and grow.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

• Associate’s degree in a technical field and 1–2 years’ experience in a production facility.
• Familiarity with production test equipment.
• Continuous improvement and team mindset, teachable and works well with others.

Travel will occur 0–25% of the time.

The range for this position is $41,600.00 to $74,900.00. Placement within this range may vary depending on the applicant’s experience and geographic location. Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401(k) benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role.

Acuity Inc. is an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodation for Applicants with Disabilities:
Acuity Inc. is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in the application process for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you have difficulty using our online system due to a disability and need an accommodation, please contact (770) 922‑9000, option 4, and indicate the type of accommodation and the requisition number.