Automation Engineer - Advanced Manufacturing

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the job description. We need to extract: - About the role: The first paragraphs describing who you will work with and how you will make a difference. Could be "About the role" or "Job Description". The instruction says use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have About the role. - Responsibilities: There's a "Responsibilities" heading later in the text: "Responsibilities Support automation projects from concept through production launch." Also earlier there is "Responsibilities include evaluating automation opportunities..." So we can combine. - Requirements: The "What do we want to know about you?" section includes degree, years experience, hands-on experience, ability to design, experience with simulation, strong understanding, effective project execution, ability to travel. That's requirements. - Qualifications: There's a "Preferred Qualifications" section. Could be Qualifications (maybe separate from Requirements). The instruction says we can have Qualifications section. We'll include both required and preferred? Usually Requirements = required qualifications; Qualifications = preferred. We'll put required under Requirements, preferred under Qualifications. - Skills: Could be extracted from responsibilities and qualifications? Might be redundant. But we can create a Skills section summarizing technical skills: robotics, simulation, CAD, vision, PLC, etc. However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we must preserve all substantive information. If we create a Skills section, we need to include content that is present in the posting. The posting includes many skill-like items: "Hands-on experience applying industrial robots and automation equipment", "Ability to design automation concepts, cell layouts, tooling approaches, and equipment interfaces", "Experience with robot or manufacturing simulation, offline programming, or digital manufacturing tools", "Strong understanding of machine safety, controls, integration, manufacturing processes, and production readiness", "Effective project execution, problem-solving, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills", plus preferred qualifications list many specific skills. We could put those under Skills. - Benefits: The posting mentions "More information on offered benefits, which include health, welfare, and retirement, are available at mywabtecbenefits.com. Other benefit offerings for this role may include annual bonus, if eligible." So we have benefits info. We'll include Benefits section. - Pay: The posting includes salary rate: "$68900-98200". Also mentions base pay range subject to change. So we have Pay section. - Schedule: Not mentioned. No schedule info. So we should not include Schedule. - Also maybe "Additional Information" includes job titles may span more than one career level, salary info, benefits link. Already covered. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, accommodation, etc. Remove those. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID. We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We'll structure:

About the role

... combined paragraphs about who you will work with and how you will make a difference.

Responsibilities

• ... list items from responsibilities.

We need to preserve all substantive information; we should not lose any detail. So we need to extract each responsibility bullet. Let's parse responsibilities from the text: From "How will you make a difference?" paragraph: It describes responsibilities but not bullet list. Then later "What will your typical day look like? Responsibilities Support automation projects from concept through production launch. Evaluate manufacturing processes and identify practical automation opportunities. Develop automation concepts, layouts, simulations, cycle-time estimates, and technical specifications. Perform robot reach, payload, interference, and process simulations to reduce project risk. Support capital estimates, ROI business cases, equipment scopes, and project documentation. Participate in vendor selection, RFQs, design reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup. Work with controls, manufacturing, quality, maintenance, EHS, suppliers, and integrators to resolve technical issues. Troubleshoot and optimize existing robotic and automated manufacturing systems. Document lessons learned and help replicate successful automation solutions across sites. Support Automation & Advanced Manufacturing standards, roadmap, and preferred technology strategy. Evaluate emerging technologies including robotics, vision, simulation, digital twins, and AI-enabled manufacturing. Provide hands-on technical support and knowledge sharing for site engineering teams." Also earlier: "Responsibilities include evaluating automation opportunities, creating layouts and simulations, developing technical concepts and specifications, supporting capital project execution, and helping replicate successful solutions across manufacturing facilities." We need to combine and avoid duplication. We'll create a list of distinct responsibility items. Let's list them: - Support automation projects from concept through production launch. - Evaluate manufacturing processes and identify practical automation opportunities. - Develop automation concepts, layouts, simulations, cycle-time estimates, and technical specifications. - Perform robot reach, payload, interference, and process simulations to reduce project risk. - Support capital estimates, ROI business cases, equipment scopes, and project documentation. - Participate in vendor selection, RFQs, design reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup. - Work with controls, manufacturing, quality, maintenance, EHS, suppliers, and integrators to resolve technical issues. - Troubleshoot and optimize existing robotic and automated manufacturing systems. - Document lessons learned and help replicate successful automation solutions across sites. - Support Automation & Advanced Manufacturing standards, roadmap, and preferred technology strategy. - Evaluate emerging technologies including robotics, vision, simulation, digital twins, and AI-enabled manufacturing. - Provide hands-on technical support and knowledge sharing for site engineering teams. - Evaluate automation opportunities (maybe duplicate of evaluate manufacturing processes? but we can keep as separate? Might be duplicate. We'll keep unique.) - Creating layouts and simulations (covered) - Developing technical concepts and specifications (covered) - Supporting capital project execution (covered) - Helping replicate successful solutions across manufacturing facilities (covered) We'll deduplicate. Now Requirements (required qualifications): From "What do we want to know about you?": - Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Automation/Controls, Robotics Engineering, or a related discipline. - 3+ years of industrial automation, manufacturing engineering, robotics, controls, or advanced manufacturing experience. - Hands-on experience applying industrial robots and automation equipment in a production environment. - Ability to design automation concepts, cell layouts, tooling approaches, and equipment interfaces. - Experience with robot or manufacturing simulation, offline programming, or digital manufacturing tools. - Strong understanding of machine safety, controls, integration, manufacturing processes, and production readiness. - Effective project execution, problem-solving, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills. - Ability to travel as required to support enterprise manufacturing sites. We'll list as

• ...

. Preferred Qualifications (Qualifications section): - Automation or robotics experience in high-volume manufacturing environment - Industrial robots (FANUC preferred; ABB, KUKA, or Yaskawa/Motoman experience also valuable) - Robot simulation and offline programming tools such as FANUC ROBOGUIDE, Process Simulate, Visual Components, or equivalent - 3D CAD, equipment layouts, reach studies, cycle-time analysis, and design-for-automation - Machine vision, inspection, and robotic guidance systems - Automated material handling, end-of-arm tooling, fixtures, and sensor integration - PLCs, HMIs, industrial networking, MES, SCADA, OEE, or manufacturing data systems - FAT, SAT, commissioning, production launch, and structured root-cause problem solving - Lean or Six Sigma certification We'll put under

Qualifications

(or maybe "Preferred Qualifications"). Skills section: Could combine many of the technical skills from responsibilities and qualifications. But we must not invent or summarize away detail. If we create Skills, we need to ensure content is present. The posting includes many skill items; we could list them as a Skills section. However we already have Responsibilities and Qualifications covering them. Adding Skills might duplicate content but still preserve info. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe we should not add Skills if we already have Responsibilities and Qualifications covering the skills. But we could still include Skills if we think it's substantive and not thin. However we already have Responsibilities (list of duties) and Qualifications (preferred). The required qualifications are also skills. Might be okay to have Skills section that merges required and preferred technical skills. But to avoid many thin sections, we could combine required and preferred into Qualifications and keep Responsibilities separate. Then we might not need Skills. But the instruction says we can use sections like Skills. It's optional. We'll decide to include Skills only if we have distinct skill-based content not captured elsewhere. Since we have Responsibilities (duties) and Qualifications (preferred) and Requirements (required), we might not need Skills. However the required qualifications include skills like ability to design, experience with simulation, understanding of safety, etc. Those are more like qualifications. So we can keep Requirements and Qualifications. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. Check if we have any content for Benefits and Pay. Benefits: "More information on offered benefits, which include health, welfare, and retirement, are available at mywabtecbenefits.com. Other benefit offerings for this role may include annual bonus, if eligible." We'll put that in

. Pay: "The salary rate for this role is currently $68900-98200. The actual salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, education, business needs, market demands and work location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future." We'll put that in

. Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO, accommodation, culture, etc. Remove those paragraphs. Now produce HTML. We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed. We'll output:

About the role

You will partner with cross-functional teams across operations, product engineering, maintenance, quality, procurement, information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), environmental health & safety (EHS), and business leadership to deliver advanced manufacturing automation solutions across the global supply chain (GSC) consisting of all business segments. This role collaborates closely with manufacturing sites, technical specialists, external automation suppliers, and system integrators to identify, design, simulate, deploy, and optimize automation solutions that improve safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost performance. As part of the Automation & Advanced Manufacturing organization, you will support the development and deployment of automation solutions for machining, fabrication, assembly, material handling, and related manufacturing processes across multiple sites and business units. You will apply practical automation and robotics experience to convert manufacturing needs into safe, repeatable, production-ready concepts. As a member of the Automation & Advanced Manufacturing team, you will support the development, justification, design, simulation, implementation, and optimization of manufacturing automation systems across a diverse industrial environment. This role combines hands-on engineering with project execution. You will serve as a technical resource for robotics, automation, machine integration, simulation, vision, and advanced manufacturing systems. Experience gained in automotive or another high-volume, highly automated manufacturing environment is especially valuable.

Responsibilities

• Support automation projects from concept through production launch.
• Evaluate manufacturing processes and identify practical automation opportunities.
• Develop automation concepts, layouts, simulations, cycle-time estimates, and technical specifications.
• Perform robot reach, payload, interference, and process simulations to reduce project risk.
• Support capital estimates, ROI business cases, equipment scopes, and project documentation.
• Participate in vendor selection, RFQs, design reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup.
• Work with