Automation Engineer
for each heading. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, scam warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove sections like "Work Environment", "Job Type & Location", "Workplace Type", "Application Deadline", "About Actalent", etc unless they contain substantive info for sections we need. We need to preserve all substantive information: description, responsibilities, essential skills, additional skills & qualifications, benefits, pay, work environment maybe part of About the role? The instruction says we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include a section only when posting has real, specific content for it. So we need to decide which sections to include.
We have:
- About the role: The job description paragraph at start: "The Automation Engineer supports and enhances manufacturing automation, machine vision systems, qualification activities, and production line expansion within a regulated, high-volume medical device manufacturing environment. This hands-on role focuses on semi-automated manufacturing lines that use machine vision inspection systems, PLC-controlled fixtures, automated test stations, and production monitoring systems. The engineer maintains, improves, validates, and scales manufacturing equipment while driving production yield, quality, and continuous improvement initiatives."
That's substantive. So we can have About the role.
- Responsibilities: The list under "Responsibilities". Many bullet points. We'll put them in
- .
- Requirements / Qualifications: There's "Essential Skills" and "Additional Skills & Qualifications". Those could be considered Requirements/Qualifications. The instruction says we can have Requirements or Qualifications sections. We could combine them into one "Requirements" section, or separate "Qualifications". Probably better to have "Requirements" for essential skills and "Additional Skills & Qualifications" maybe as part of Requirements or Skills. There's also a separate "Skills" section heading allowed. We have "Essential Skills" list and "Additional Skills & Qualifications". Could treat "Skills" as the list of skills (essential and additional). But we also have "Requirements" maybe for education/experience. Let's parse:
Essential Skills bullet list includes: Bachelor’s degree preferred; 3–6 years experience; Hands-on experience supporting machine vision systems; Experience with PLC programming; Proficiency in SolidWorks; Experience supporting production equipment; Experience working in regulated manufacturing environment; Knowledge of TMV; Experience with OQ and PQ; Ability to troubleshoot PLC-controlled equipment; Familiarity with machine vision platforms; Experience with pneumatic systems, sensors; Demonstrated ability to support manufacturing line validation; Strong analytical skills; Ability to work effectively in high-volume regulated production environment.
Additional Skills & Qualifications bullet list includes: Experience in FDA-regulated manufacturing environments; Background in manufacturing line validation; Hands-on experience with automated inspection equipment; Exposure to continuous improvement programs; Experience with inspection tooling, fixture design; Familiarity with production monitoring systems; Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams; Strong documentation skills.
Thus we could have a "Requirements" section covering education/experience (maybe from Essential Skills) and a "Skills" section covering technical skills. But the instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Essential Skills and Additional Skills & Qualifications into a single "Skills" section, and maybe have a "Requirements" section for education/experience? However the Essential Skills already includes education/experience. Could treat that as "Requirements". Then "Skills" for the rest (technical skills). But there is overlap.
Alternatively, we could have just one "Requirements" section that includes all bullet points (education, experience, skills). And maybe a separate "Skills" section is redundant. The instruction says we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include a section only when posting has real, specific content for it. So we need to decide which sections we will include based on content.
We have:
- About the role: yes.
- Responsibilities: yes.
- Requirements: we have education/experience etc. Could be considered Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe we could treat "Essential Skills" as Qualifications? But we already have Requirements. Might be redundant.
- Skills: we have technical skills list (SolidWorks, PLC, machine vision, etc). Could be separate.
- Benefits: we have "Benefits may include retirement savings plans with matching contributions, bonus opportunities, and additional incentives aligned with company performance." plus later list: "Medical, Dental, Vision PTO, Holiday, Sick Leave 401K Matching Yearly Bonus Incentive Stock options". That's substantive.
- Pay: we have pay range: $130000.00 - $150000.00/yr.
- Schedule: we have "Work hours typically align with standard manufacturing operations, with flexibility required to support critical production needs and equipment issues as they arise." That's schedule info.
Thus we can include all sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to remove boilerplate: EEO, legal, etc. Also remove "Work Environment", "Job Type & Location", "Workplace Type", "Application Deadline", "About Actalent", etc.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the description paragraph, responsibilities list, essential skills list (maybe as Requirements), additional skills & qualifications (maybe as Skills), benefits list, pay range, schedule sentence.
We need to format as HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown fences.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
The Automation Engineer supports and enhances manufacturing automation, machine vision systems, qualification activities, and production line expansion within a regulated, high-volume medical device manufacturing environment. This hands-on role focuses on semi-automated manufacturing lines that use machine vision inspection systems, PLC-controlled fixtures, automated test stations, and production monitoring systems. The engineer maintains, improves, validates, and scales manufacturing equipment while driving production yield, quality, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support and troubleshoot machine vision inspection systems used on semi-automated manufacturing lines.
- Configure and optimize automated inspection stations to improve accuracy, throughput, and reliability.
- Validate and refine pass/fail inspection criteria to ensure consistent product quality.
- Investigate inspection failures and false rejects, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Support programming and modifications for machine vision systems, including platforms such as Keyence and Cognex.
- Support daily manufacturing line operations by addressing automation-related issues in real time.
- Troubleshoot automation-related production problems to minimize downtime and maintain output targets.
- Drive corrective actions and process improvements to enhance production yield, efficiency, and quality.
- Support line readiness and production ramp activities for new or expanded manufacturing lines.
- Analyze production data and yield trends to identify opportunities for improvement and to monitor the effectiveness of implemented changes.
- Program and troubleshoot basic PLC-controlled equipment to support automated manufacturing processes.
- Support integration and troubleshooting of sensors, pneumatic systems, and related control components.
- Develop and modify simple automation logic to enhance equipment functionality and reliability.
- Support integration of inspection stations with manufacturing equipment and production monitoring systems.
- Design fixtures, nests, tooling, and inspection stations using SolidWorks to support automated and semi-automated processes.
- Improve existing automation systems and manufacturing equipment to increase yield, throughput, and robustness.
- Implement mechanical and control modifications to enhance equipment performance and reduce defects.
- Support design and implementation of new equipment and automation enhancements for production lines.
- Execute and support Test Method Validation (TMV) activities to ensure measurement systems and inspection methods are reliable and repeatable.
- Support Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) efforts for manufacturing equipment and processes.
- Review qualification data, investigate failures or deviations, and support implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure equipment performs according to design intent and meets regulatory and internal quality requirements.
- Support data collection, traceability, and documentation requirements associated with validation and qualification activities.
- Contribute to continuous improvement programs focused on yield improvement, equipment qualification, and automated inspection performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in engineering, quality, and production to support new product introductions and process changes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering preferred; a degree in Manufacturing Engineering or a related engineering discipline is also considered.
- 3–6 years of experience in automation engineering, manufacturing engineering, or equipment engineering.
- Hands-on experience supporting machine vision systems in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience with PLC programming and troubleshooting, including basic PLC logic development.
- Proficiency in SolidWorks for designing fixtures, nests, tooling, and inspection stations.
- Experience supporting production equipment and automated inspection systems on the manufacturing floor.
- Experience working in a regulated manufacturing environment, preferably medical device manufacturing.
- Knowledge of Test Method Validation (TMV) practices and methodologies.
- Experience with Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) for manufacturing equipment and processes.
- Ability to troubleshoot PLC-controlled equipment and associated control hardware.
- Familiarity with machine vision inspection systems and platforms such as Keyence and Cognex.
- Experience working with pneumatic systems, sensors, and automation components.
- Demonstrated ability to support manufacturing line validation and equipment qualification activities.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret production data, yield trends, and validation results.
- Ability to work effectively in a high-volume, regulated production environment and support continuous improvement initiatives.
Skills
- Experience in FDA-regulated manufacturing environments, particularly medical device manufacturing.
- Background in manufacturing line validation, including planning, execution, and documentation.
- Hands-on experience with automated inspection equipment and integration into production lines.
- Exposure to continuous improvement programs focused on yield improvement, process optimization, and equipment reliability.
- Experience with inspection tooling, fixture design, and tooling development for automated and semi-automated processes.
- Familiarity with production monitoring systems and data collection tools used in manufacturing environments.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams in engineering, quality, and operations.
- Strong documentation skills to support regulatory compliance, validation records, and engineering change documentation.
Benefits
- Retirement savings plans with matching contributions
- Bonus opportunities
- Additional incentives aligned with company performance
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- PTO, Holiday, Sick Leave
- 401K Matching
- Yearly Bonus
- Incentive Stock options
Pay
The pay range for this position is $130000.00 - $150000.00/yr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Schedule
Work hours typically align with standard manufacturing operations, with flexibility
for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, scam warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove sections like "Work Environment", "Job Type & Location", "Workplace Type", "Application Deadline", "About Actalent", etc unless they contain substantive info for sections we need. We need to preserve all substantive information: description, responsibilities, essential skills, additional skills & qualifications, benefits, pay, work environment maybe part of About the role? The instruction says we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include a section only when posting has real, specific content for it. So we need to decide which sections to include. We have: - About the role: The job description paragraph at start: "The Automation Engineer supports and enhances manufacturing automation, machine vision systems, qualification activities, and production line expansion within a regulated, high-volume medical device manufacturing environment. This hands-on role focuses on semi-automated manufacturing lines that use machine vision inspection systems, PLC-controlled fixtures, automated test stations, and production monitoring systems. The engineer maintains, improves, validates, and scales manufacturing equipment while driving production yield, quality, and continuous improvement initiatives." That's substantive. So we can have About the role. - Responsibilities: The list under "Responsibilities". Many bullet points. We'll put them in
- .
- Requirements / Qualifications: There's "Essential Skills" and "Additional Skills & Qualifications". Those could be considered Requirements/Qualifications. The instruction says we can have Requirements or Qualifications sections. We could combine them into one "Requirements" section, or separate "Qualifications". Probably better to have "Requirements" for essential skills and "Additional Skills & Qualifications" maybe as part of Requirements or Skills. There's also a separate "Skills" section heading allowed. We have "Essential Skills" list and "Additional Skills & Qualifications". Could treat "Skills" as the list of skills (essential and additional). But we also have "Requirements" maybe for education/experience. Let's parse:
Essential Skills bullet list includes: Bachelor’s degree preferred; 3–6 years experience; Hands-on experience supporting machine vision systems; Experience with PLC programming; Proficiency in SolidWorks; Experience supporting production equipment; Experience working in regulated manufacturing environment; Knowledge of TMV; Experience with OQ and PQ; Ability to troubleshoot PLC-controlled equipment; Familiarity with machine vision platforms; Experience with pneumatic systems, sensors; Demonstrated ability to support manufacturing line validation; Strong analytical skills; Ability to work effectively in high-volume regulated production environment.
Additional Skills & Qualifications bullet list includes: Experience in FDA-regulated manufacturing environments; Background in manufacturing line validation; Hands-on experience with automated inspection equipment; Exposure to continuous improvement programs; Experience with inspection tooling, fixture design; Familiarity with production monitoring systems; Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams; Strong documentation skills.
Thus we could have a "Requirements" section covering education/experience (maybe from Essential Skills) and a "Skills" section covering technical skills. But the instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine Essential Skills and Additional Skills & Qualifications into a single "Skills" section, and maybe have a "Requirements" section for education/experience? However the Essential Skills already includes education/experience. Could treat that as "Requirements". Then "Skills" for the rest (technical skills). But there is overlap.
Alternatively, we could have just one "Requirements" section that includes all bullet points (education, experience, skills). And maybe a separate "Skills" section is redundant. The instruction says we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include a section only when posting has real, specific content for it. So we need to decide which sections we will include based on content.
We have:
- About the role: yes.
- Responsibilities: yes.
- Requirements: we have education/experience etc. Could be considered Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe we could treat "Essential Skills" as Qualifications? But we already have Requirements. Might be redundant.
- Skills: we have technical skills list (SolidWorks, PLC, machine vision, etc). Could be separate.
- Benefits: we have "Benefits may include retirement savings plans with matching contributions, bonus opportunities, and additional incentives aligned with company performance." plus later list: "Medical, Dental, Vision PTO, Holiday, Sick Leave 401K Matching Yearly Bonus Incentive Stock options". That's substantive.
- Pay: we have pay range: $130000.00 - $150000.00/yr.
- Schedule: we have "Work hours typically align with standard manufacturing operations, with flexibility required to support critical production needs and equipment issues as they arise." That's schedule info.
Thus we can include all sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to remove boilerplate: EEO, legal, etc. Also remove "Work Environment", "Job Type & Location", "Workplace Type", "Application Deadline", "About Actalent", etc.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the description paragraph, responsibilities list, essential skills list (maybe as Requirements), additional skills & qualifications (maybe as Skills), benefits list, pay range, schedule sentence.
We need to format as HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown fences.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
The Automation Engineer supports and enhances manufacturing automation, machine vision systems, qualification activities, and production line expansion within a regulated, high-volume medical device manufacturing environment. This hands-on role focuses on semi-automated manufacturing lines that use machine vision inspection systems, PLC-controlled fixtures, automated test stations, and production monitoring systems. The engineer maintains, improves, validates, and scales manufacturing equipment while driving production yield, quality, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support and troubleshoot machine vision inspection systems used on semi-automated manufacturing lines.
- Configure and optimize automated inspection stations to improve accuracy, throughput, and reliability.
- Validate and refine pass/fail inspection criteria to ensure consistent product quality.
- Investigate inspection failures and false rejects, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Support programming and modifications for machine vision systems, including platforms such as Keyence and Cognex.
- Support daily manufacturing line operations by addressing automation-related issues in real time.
- Troubleshoot automation-related production problems to minimize downtime and maintain output targets.
- Drive corrective actions and process improvements to enhance production yield, efficiency, and quality.
- Support line readiness and production ramp activities for new or expanded manufacturing lines.
- Analyze production data and yield trends to identify opportunities for improvement and to monitor the effectiveness of implemented changes.
- Program and troubleshoot basic PLC-controlled equipment to support automated manufacturing processes.
- Support integration and troubleshooting of sensors, pneumatic systems, and related control components.
- Develop and modify simple automation logic to enhance equipment functionality and reliability.
- Support integration of inspection stations with manufacturing equipment and production monitoring systems.
- Design fixtures, nests, tooling, and inspection stations using SolidWorks to support automated and semi-automated processes.
- Improve existing automation systems and manufacturing equipment to increase yield, throughput, and robustness.
- Implement mechanical and control modifications to enhance equipment performance and reduce defects.
- Support design and implementation of new equipment and automation enhancements for production lines.
- Execute and support Test Method Validation (TMV) activities to ensure measurement systems and inspection methods are reliable and repeatable.
- Support Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) efforts for manufacturing equipment and processes.
- Review qualification data, investigate failures or deviations, and support implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure equipment performs according to design intent and meets regulatory and internal quality requirements.
- Support data collection, traceability, and documentation requirements associated with validation and qualification activities.
- Contribute to continuous improvement programs focused on yield improvement, equipment qualification, and automated inspection performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in engineering, quality, and production to support new product introductions and process changes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering preferred; a degree in Manufacturing Engineering or a related engineering discipline is also considered.
- 3–6 years of experience in automation engineering, manufacturing engineering, or equipment engineering.
- Hands-on experience supporting machine vision systems in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience with PLC programming and troubleshooting, including basic PLC logic development.
- Proficiency in SolidWorks for designing fixtures, nests, tooling, and inspection stations.
- Experience supporting production equipment and automated inspection systems on the manufacturing floor.
- Experience working in a regulated manufacturing environment, preferably medical device manufacturing.
- Knowledge of Test Method Validation (TMV) practices and methodologies.
- Experience with Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) for manufacturing equipment and processes.
- Ability to troubleshoot PLC-controlled equipment and associated control hardware.
- Familiarity with machine vision inspection systems and platforms such as Keyence and Cognex.
- Experience working with pneumatic systems, sensors, and automation components.
- Demonstrated ability to support manufacturing line validation and equipment qualification activities.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret production data, yield trends, and validation results.
- Ability to work effectively in a high-volume, regulated production environment and support continuous improvement initiatives.
Skills
- Experience in FDA-regulated manufacturing environments, particularly medical device manufacturing.
- Background in manufacturing line validation, including planning, execution, and documentation.
- Hands-on experience with automated inspection equipment and integration into production lines.
- Exposure to continuous improvement programs focused on yield improvement, process optimization, and equipment reliability.
- Experience with inspection tooling, fixture design, and tooling development for automated and semi-automated processes.
- Familiarity with production monitoring systems and data collection tools used in manufacturing environments.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams in engineering, quality, and operations.
- Strong documentation skills to support regulatory compliance, validation records, and engineering change documentation.
Benefits
- Retirement savings plans with matching contributions
- Bonus opportunities
- Additional incentives aligned with company performance
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- PTO, Holiday, Sick Leave
- 401K Matching
- Yearly Bonus
- Incentive Stock options
Pay
The pay range for this position is $130000.00 - $150000.00/yr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Schedule
Work hours typically align with standard manufacturing operations, with flexibility