Automation Engineer - Automated Warehouse

Job Description

Would you like to be responsible for the installation and oversight of an automated intra-logistical warehouse system for the new LEGO manufacturing site? The Automation Engineer – Automated Warehouse will manage the automated equipment in the Materials Warehouse area, including conveyors, elevators, shuttle cars, robots, palletizers, lidders, and supporting equipment.

• Ensure the LEGO Production team meets reliability requirements through preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance of the automated equipment.
• Develop detailed maintenance work instructions, user documentation, and troubleshooting guides.
• Analyze and investigate equipment failures that affect product quality, uptime, and packing capacity.
• Serve as superuser for platforms such as PLC programming, HMI, COMBI 2.0 ERP, SAP and WMS.
• Create standardized approaches for robot programming, safety protocols, operator interfaces, and global implementations.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions for automated warehouse operations.
• Lead engineering initiatives to improve safety, quality, delivery, and costs.
• Generate Power BI reports aligned with equipment capacity.
• Perform risk and opportunity assessments of equipment.
• Oversee equipment life cycle.
• Map and standardize critical equipment parameters.
• Drive continuous improvement of machinery and processes.
• Maintain software updates for machinery to meet supplier and operational needs.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field (preferred).
• Proficient PLC programming experience, preferably with Allen Bradley or Siemens.
• Experience with intra‑logistical systems, automatic retrieval systems, palletizers, rolling conveyors, lidders, and related equipment.
• Proven experience with WMS.

• Global travel: training at the Mexico site for 2 weeks on hire, plus 2 weeks before new site production.
• Work onsite 5 days a week.
• Relocation assistance not provided.

Salary range: $84,674.00 – $, based on responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints.

• Family Care Leave – enhanced paid leave options.
• Insurances – life and disability insurance coverage.
• Well‑being – access to the Headspace App and local wellbeing initiatives.
• Colleague Discount – substantial discount on LEGO products from day one.
• Bonus – bonus scheme for meeting goals where eligible.
• Workplace – primary location assignment with hybrid work policy (average 3 days per week in office).

The LEGO Group is fully committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay, and encourages applicants from all backgrounds (sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, and veteran status) to apply.

Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to complete a Child Safeguarding Background Screening.

Drug screening is conducted as part of the workplace safety policy.

Contact the HR Service Desk at 1.860‑763‑7777, option #3, for assistance with online application accessibility.