Sr. Engineer, Industrial Automation and Robotics

Overview

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Sr. Engineer, Industrial Automation and Robotics

Job Summary:

Panasonic Energy is seeking a Sr. Engineer, Industrial Automation and Robotics reporting to the Sr. Director, Next Gen Initiatives. This role operates within the Next Gen Initiatives (NGI) team, a strategic function responsible for advancing automation, AI enablement, and operational transformation across PECNA. This role focuses on the physical execution layer of manufacturing: deploying automation and robotics systems that transform how work is performed on the factory floor.

The engineer will drive deployment of robotics, task-specific equipment automation, process control, automated inspection, and AI-integrated hardware systems. This role converts Next Gen concepts into stable, production-ready assets that improve safety, quality, productivity, throughput, cost performance. The ideal candidate blends future-forward curiosity with a hands-on approach to problem-solving. You will translate complex manufacturing challenges into structured initiatives, driving cross-functional execution from early discovery and ideation through proof-of-concept and full deployment, ensuring measurable performance improvements and sustained adoption across the shop floor.

Strategy & Execution

• Partner with site leadership and manufacturing stakeholders to define and prioritize initiatives aligned to NGI pillars and identify opportunities to improve performance, cost, and workforce capability.
• Translate operational challenges into clear initiative charters and drive end-to-end delivery across physical systems (automation/robotics).
• Own use cases from discovery through proof of concept to scaled deployment, ensuring solutions are operationally relevant, explainable, and embedded into frontline workflows.
• Manage initiative timelines, risks, and dependencies; drive issue resolution with cross functional stakeholders.

Next Gen Technologies

• Evaluate and pilot emerging automation and robotics technologies across production sites, including advanced robotics, AMRs, and poly functional platforms. Identify and evaluate high-impact opportunities in areas such as task‑specific equipment automation, process control, automated inspection, and AI‑integrated hardware systems.
• Identify and prioritizeautomationopportunities that deliver measurable improvements in productivity, throughput, quality, and safety.
• Partner with process engineering/mechanical engineering/quality/controls/SCADA to convert manual or semi‑automated operations into reliable, closed‑loopautomated systems using PLCs, HMIs, sensors, and control logic.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to assess readiness, capability, reliability, safety, and ROI before scaled deployment.

Stakeholder & Vendor Coordination

• Bridge the gap between Operations, Engineering, Safety, Maintenance, IT/OT, Quality, Finance, HR, Supply Chain to ensure deployments are safe, scalable, and sustainable.
• Manage relationships with robotics OEMs,automationintegrators, and equipment vendors, including RFAs, bids, delivery milestones, FAT/SAT, and performance accountability.
• Define and track KPIs such as cycle time, resource efficiency, MTBF, uptime, ROI, quality impact, and safety improvement.
• Document standards and best practices to enable repeatable deployment across NV and KS sites.
• Support training and change management for sustainable ownership by relevant teams.

• To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employees, wearing PPE is a possibility and may include equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, bump cap, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator.

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