Senior Automation & Controls Engineer Verified today
The Role
You'll be at the heart of bringing the production system to life. K2 has a strong push to vertically integrate our production system. You'll work side-by-side with the production and engineering team to concept, develop, and roll out various automation projects to support this vision.
This role is built for someone who executes quickly, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and wants to take ownership early. You'll draw on your deep technical intuition, contribute to systems that scale, and have impact on increasingly complex challenges as we push towards higher-rate production.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and production engineers to ensure seamless production automation across hardware and control layers.
- Conceive, design, and develop production tooling and electromechanical automation assemblies either in-house or through vendors.
- Own hands-on buildout, activation, and qualification of automation and controls projects across the production line spanning machine design, robotics, computer vision, and other systems.
- Shape and implement HMI strategy and PLC automation in a way that makes machines easy to operate with repeatable results.
- Understand build flow, production reliability, and process control to implement strategies to increase production takt rate and first pass yield.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, aerospace, materials, or other relevant engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in a high-volume manufacturing, production, or hands-on engineering environment.
- 2+ years of experience working in industrial automation and controls in a production environment.
- Strong hands-on aptitude and willingness to work directly with hardware on the production floor.
- In-depth knowledge of precision assembly or electromechanical integration processes.
- Ability to generate and review engineering drawings, schematics, and technical documentation.
- Experience setting up a manufacturing or production floor for first article builds through production rate.
Nice to Have
- Full-stack experience with industrial automation hardware and controls, PLC/HMI/Robotics software control stacks, electrical and fluid schematics.
- Exposure to space, defense, or other high-reliability manufacturing environments.
- Experience designing automation systems for manufacturability.
- Demonstrated experience developing production processes from the ground up including driving design improvements for manufacturing.