Automation & Efficiency Engineer

Responsibilities

• Production Efficiency: Continuously study the production line — how it flows, where it slows, where time and effort are lost — and implement changes that make it run faster. Not every solution is a robot; many are simply smarter ways of working.
• Automation Implementation: Evaluate and implement automation tools where they make sense — robotic welders, automated soldering, fast QC stations — increasing throughput while raising quality.
• Design for Manufacturability: Work with Mechanical, Electrical, and Firmware Engineers to design products that are fast to build at scale — custom harnesses, PCBs cells weld directly to, snap-together enclosures.
• Human Performance Partnership: Work with the Safety, Quality & Training Manager (and Senior Safety, Quality & Training Manager) to understand what's possible with the human touch — helping technicians get faster and setting new standards.
• Efficiency & Automation Standards: Work with the Director of Engineering to create and maintain the efficiency and automation sections of Titan Battery Engineering Standards (TBES) so design-for-manufacturing is baked in from the start.
• Throughput Optimization: Take a system-wide view of cycle time, line balancing, tooling, and fixturing — producing more, with less labor, at equal or higher quality.
• Cross-Site Standardization: As Titan Batteries grows, capture efficiencies proven at one site and roll them out across all sites.

Qualifications

• Relentless Improvement Mindset: Incapable of leaving a slow, wasteful process alone. Always asking how it could be faster.
• Systems Thinking: Sees the whole line as one system and optimizes the whole, not the part.
• Collaboration: Works across engineering, production, training, and quality, bringing people along rather than imposing change.
• Pragmatism: Knows the difference between automation for its own sake and automation that pays off.
• Quality Conscience: Never trades quality for speed — faster must also mean as-good-or-better.
• Curiosity: Loves machines, processes, and the craft of building efficiently; stays current on what's possible.

Skills

• Manufacturing & Process Engineering: Strong grasp of production line design, cycle-time analysis, line balancing, tooling, fixturing, and throughput optimization.
• Automation Technology: Familiarity with robotic welding, automated soldering, pick-and-place, vision-based QC, and the economics of deploying them.
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM): Identifies how to make a battery or enclosure faster and cheaper to build at scale without compromising performance.
• Battery Production Knowledge: Understands gluing, welding, soldering, wiring, finishing, and OEM well enough to improve them credibly.
• Data & Measurement: Measures processes quantitatively, builds the business case, and proves improvements with before-and-after data.
• TBES: Contributes to and applies the efficiency and automation sections of Titan Battery Engineering Standards.