Manufacturing Engineer - Automation
before sections? The instruction: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions.
Thus we can start with a
for company description? Or maybe we can treat "Company Description" as a short paragraph before sections. It's substantive. We'll include it as a
before any headings.
Then we need sections: Responsibilities (from Job Description). Qualifications (from Qualifications and Additional Ways To Stand Out maybe as Skills). Actually "Additional Ways To Stand Out" seems like skills/preferred qualifications. Could be under Skills. We'll treat that as Skills.
We need to ensure we don't create empty sections.
Let's extract content.
Company Description paragraph: "ContiTech is one of the world’s leading industry specialists. The Continental group sector offers its customers connected, environment-friendly, safe and convenient industry and service solutions using a range of materials for off-highway applications, on rails and roads, in the air, under and above the ground, in industrial environments, for the food sector and the furniture industry. With about 39,000 employees in more than 40 countries and sales of some 6.4 billion euros (2024), the global industrial partner is active with core branches in Asia, Europe and North and South America."
Job Description (Responsibilities): The block after "Job Description Senior Automation Manufacturing Equipment Engineering – Rubber Products Production (Hydraulic Hoses, Conveyor Belt, Air Spring, Drapper Belt, V Belts, Etc) – Automation and general equipment and process technical definition. Critical member of the Manufacturing Engineering BA Team, responsible for elevating excellence for Production Equipment and Standardization, Machinery and Production Design, Investments definition, Cost Saving Projects, Automation, and more, across the IAM organization. This role ensures that we define the best process and support or manufacturing operations to produce high advanced spiraled and flexible steel cord high pressure industrial hoses and other related rubber products in a robust, and cost‑effective manner across multiple manufacturing sites. Serving as both a regional technical authority and a strategic partner to manufacturing plants, this position leads complex process revamp design and automation concepts, equipment selection and industrialization initiatives and ensures consistent launch readiness and stable production performance. Leveraging deep expertise in overall manufacturing equipment and product–process interactions, capacity and layout planning are part of the scope. The position is responsible for the technical support and definition of equipment and related manufacturing concepts across multiple Hoses, Conveyor Belt, PTS, Air Spring, PTS plants within IAM, directly influencing the successful project technical alignment, technical specification creation, investment financial analysis support, being under capacity increase or cost reduction support projects and continuous improvement of products representing approximately €300 M in annual revenue. Location: ContiTech Fairlawn OH. Relocation within US possible. No international relocation"
Then "Tasks" list: Actually after that there is a heading "Tasks Automation For Manufacturing Equipment Definition And Selection And Improvement". Then a series of bullet-like sentences each starting with a capital verb. We need to convert to
- . Let's extract each task line:
- Serve as Business Area technical authority for new technologies investment, since rubber hot preparation, confection, curing, cutting, assembly, finishing equipment, etc, ensuring consistent standards and capability across all sites.
- Serve as core expert during end‑to‑end industrialization of new products from design definition through launch and stable serial production.
- Provide expert guidance on manufacturing equipment technologies, materials, and assembly processes, including escalation and problem‑solving support.
- Define and optimize equipment concepts, Automation, tooling, and layouts to meet safety, quality, cost, scalability, and capability targets.
- Support investment initiatives for capital asset selection to manufacture rubber products.
- Support plants with the cost saving calculation and investment pay back justification.
- Lead improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
- Support structured problem‑solving using Lean and Six Sigma tools (A3, 8D, DMAIC, SPC, MSA).
- Deploy and govern manufacturing best practices and technical standards to ensure consistency and long‑term equipment robustness, with global teams and under global hose manufacturing standards.
- Seek for newer technologies for hose manufacturing with a market perspective and global new trends. Check also existing CT group technologies as bench marking.
- Monitoring and Reporting Support ME Leadership with reviewing post‑launch manufacturing performance to ensure stable serial production and compliance with industrialization standards.
- Support ME Leadership with monitoring of KPIs for equipment performance and efficiency and profitability gains.
- Identify and assess industrialization equipment risks and coordinate mitigation actions with plant teams.
- Analyze trends and deviations to prevent recurrence and drive proactive improvement.
- Standardization & Trainings Drive implementation and adherence to global equipment standards across locations.
- Define, maintain, and deploy technical guidelines and best practices in alignment with sector and plant teams.
- Serve as subject matter expert for CS, PTS, DSS equipment industrialization, providing training, coaching, and technical support to engineers and plant teams.
- Support introduction of new technologies, materials, and processes through proper validation, documentation, and standardization.
We need to ensure each is a list item.
Then Qualifications section: The block after "Qualifications HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT". Actually the heading "Qualifications HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT". Then bullet list:
- Bachelor's degree: in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Manufacturing, or a related engineering or science fields
- 5+ years of extensive experience in Manufacturing Engineering, with deep expertise in equipment Automation, robotics, vision systems, autonomous material handling equipment, remote control and supervisory system.
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience in rubber and plastic production processes and ramp-up projects.
- Deep expertise in specifying and executing projects in automation, integration and supplier and automation vendors administration.
- 20 – 40 % travel availability
- Proficient in English is mandatory
Then "Additional Ways To Stand Out" block: list of items:
- Rubber and General Hose manufacturing, Belts technology, including mining belts, industry V belts, rubber air Spring manufacturability
- Production processes & equipment
- Core manufacturing processes (rubber preparation, extrusion, calendaring, curing, cutting, griding, winding up, confection of conveyor belts and similars, testing, inspection, packing, etc.)
- Product and process industrialization technologies, systems, standards, and infrastructure
- Industrial engineering fundamentals and methods
- Design and product manufacturing test processes
- Technical requirements definition to support purchasing process
- Problem‑solving and decision‑making tools (A3, 8D, DMAIC, SPC, MSA, etc.)
- Quality Core Tools (PFMEA, APQP, MSA, R&R, flowcharting, process control plans)
- Lean production / CBS principles, methods, and tools
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas now or in the future for this job posting.
We could treat "Additional Ways To Stand Out" as Skills (preferred). Or we could merge with Qualifications as Requirements. But we have both Qualifications and Skills sections allowed. We'll put Qualifications as the mandatory requirements, and Skills as the "Additional Ways To Stand Out". Also include legal authorization as a requirement maybe under Qualifications.
We need to avoid duplication: The legal authorization appears also in Additional Ways To Stand Out; we should include it only once. Probably under Qualifications as a requirement.
We also need to include location info? Could be a short
after company description? The instruction says fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Location: ContiTech Fairlawn OH. Relocation within US possible. No international relocation. That's minor metadata; we can include as a
after company description before sections.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Remove "Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines." Also remove any duplicated lines.
Now construct HTML.
Start with
for company description.
Then
for location metadata.
Then
Responsibilities
then - ... each task.
Then
Qualifications
then - ... each qualification.
Then
Skills
then - ... each additional ways.
We need to ensure we don't include empty sections.
Check that we have all substantive content: The job description paragraph before Tasks also contains responsibilities; we could incorporate that into responsibilities as prose before the list. The instruction: Use
for prose. So we could have a
summarizing the role description before the list. But we already have a list of tasks; we could also include a
for the initial paragraph. Let's include that as a
under Responsibilities before the list.
Thus Responsibilities section:
Responsibilities
[the paragraph from Job Description up to before Tasks]
- ... tasks
Now extract that paragraph: It is the block after "Job Description Senior Automation Manufacturing Equipment Engineering – Rubber Products Production (Hydraulic Hoses, Conveyor Belt, Air Spring, Drapper Belt, V Belts, Etc) – Automation and general equipment and process technical definition. Critical member of the Manufacturing Engineering BA Team, responsible for elevating excellence for Production Equipment and Standardization, Machinery and Production Design, Investments definition, Cost Saving Projects, Automation, and more, across the IAM organization. This role ensures that we define the best process and support or manufacturing operations to produce high advanced spiraled and flexible steel cord high pressure industrial hoses and other related rubber products in a robust, and cost‑effective manner across multiple manufacturing sites. Serving as both a regional technical authority and a strategic partner to manufacturing plants, this position leads complex process revamp design and automation concepts, equipment selection and industrialization initiatives and ensures consistent launch readiness and stable production performance. Leveraging deep expertise in overall manufacturing equipment and product–process interactions, capacity and layout planning are part of the scope. The position is responsible for the technical support and definition of equipment and related manufacturing concepts across multiple Hoses, Conveyor Belt, PTS, Air Spring, PTS plants within IAM, directly
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Thus we can start with a
for company description? Or maybe we can treat "Company Description" as a short paragraph before sections. It's substantive. We'll include it as a
before any headings. Then we need sections: Responsibilities (from Job Description). Qualifications (from Qualifications and Additional Ways To Stand Out maybe as Skills). Actually "Additional Ways To Stand Out" seems like skills/preferred qualifications. Could be under Skills. We'll treat that as Skills. We need to ensure we don't create empty sections. Let's extract content. Company Description paragraph: "ContiTech is one of the world’s leading industry specialists. The Continental group sector offers its customers connected, environment-friendly, safe and convenient industry and service solutions using a range of materials for off-highway applications, on rails and roads, in the air, under and above the ground, in industrial environments, for the food sector and the furniture industry. With about 39,000 employees in more than 40 countries and sales of some 6.4 billion euros (2024), the global industrial partner is active with core branches in Asia, Europe and North and South America." Job Description (Responsibilities): The block after "Job Description Senior Automation Manufacturing Equipment Engineering – Rubber Products Production (Hydraulic Hoses, Conveyor Belt, Air Spring, Drapper Belt, V Belts, Etc) – Automation and general equipment and process technical definition. Critical member of the Manufacturing Engineering BA Team, responsible for elevating excellence for Production Equipment and Standardization, Machinery and Production Design, Investments definition, Cost Saving Projects, Automation, and more, across the IAM organization. This role ensures that we define the best process and support or manufacturing operations to produce high advanced spiraled and flexible steel cord high pressure industrial hoses and other related rubber products in a robust, and cost‑effective manner across multiple manufacturing sites. Serving as both a regional technical authority and a strategic partner to manufacturing plants, this position leads complex process revamp design and automation concepts, equipment selection and industrialization initiatives and ensures consistent launch readiness and stable production performance. Leveraging deep expertise in overall manufacturing equipment and product–process interactions, capacity and layout planning are part of the scope. The position is responsible for the technical support and definition of equipment and related manufacturing concepts across multiple Hoses, Conveyor Belt, PTS, Air Spring, PTS plants within IAM, directly influencing the successful project technical alignment, technical specification creation, investment financial analysis support, being under capacity increase or cost reduction support projects and continuous improvement of products representing approximately €300 M in annual revenue. Location: ContiTech Fairlawn OH. Relocation within US possible. No international relocation" Then "Tasks" list: Actually after that there is a heading "Tasks Automation For Manufacturing Equipment Definition And Selection And Improvement". Then a series of bullet-like sentences each starting with a capital verb. We need to convert to
- . Let's extract each task line:
- Serve as Business Area technical authority for new technologies investment, since rubber hot preparation, confection, curing, cutting, assembly, finishing equipment, etc, ensuring consistent standards and capability across all sites.
- Serve as core expert during end‑to‑end industrialization of new products from design definition through launch and stable serial production.
- Provide expert guidance on manufacturing equipment technologies, materials, and assembly processes, including escalation and problem‑solving support.
- Define and optimize equipment concepts, Automation, tooling, and layouts to meet safety, quality, cost, scalability, and capability targets.
- Support investment initiatives for capital asset selection to manufacture rubber products.
- Support plants with the cost saving calculation and investment pay back justification.
- Lead improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
- Support structured problem‑solving using Lean and Six Sigma tools (A3, 8D, DMAIC, SPC, MSA).
- Deploy and govern manufacturing best practices and technical standards to ensure consistency and long‑term equipment robustness, with global teams and under global hose manufacturing standards.
- Seek for newer technologies for hose manufacturing with a market perspective and global new trends. Check also existing CT group technologies as bench marking.
- Monitoring and Reporting Support ME Leadership with reviewing post‑launch manufacturing performance to ensure stable serial production and compliance with industrialization standards.
- Support ME Leadership with monitoring of KPIs for equipment performance and efficiency and profitability gains.
- Identify and assess industrialization equipment risks and coordinate mitigation actions with plant teams.
- Analyze trends and deviations to prevent recurrence and drive proactive improvement.
- Standardization & Trainings Drive implementation and adherence to global equipment standards across locations.
- Define, maintain, and deploy technical guidelines and best practices in alignment with sector and plant teams.
- Serve as subject matter expert for CS, PTS, DSS equipment industrialization, providing training, coaching, and technical support to engineers and plant teams.
- Support introduction of new technologies, materials, and processes through proper validation, documentation, and standardization.
We need to ensure each is a list item.
Then Qualifications section: The block after "Qualifications HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT". Actually the heading "Qualifications HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT". Then bullet list:
- Bachelor's degree: in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Manufacturing, or a related engineering or science fields
- 5+ years of extensive experience in Manufacturing Engineering, with deep expertise in equipment Automation, robotics, vision systems, autonomous material handling equipment, remote control and supervisory system.
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience in rubber and plastic production processes and ramp-up projects.
- Deep expertise in specifying and executing projects in automation, integration and supplier and automation vendors administration.
- 20 – 40 % travel availability
- Proficient in English is mandatory
Then "Additional Ways To Stand Out" block: list of items:
- Rubber and General Hose manufacturing, Belts technology, including mining belts, industry V belts, rubber air Spring manufacturability
- Production processes & equipment
- Core manufacturing processes (rubber preparation, extrusion, calendaring, curing, cutting, griding, winding up, confection of conveyor belts and similars, testing, inspection, packing, etc.)
- Product and process industrialization technologies, systems, standards, and infrastructure
- Industrial engineering fundamentals and methods
- Design and product manufacturing test processes
- Technical requirements definition to support purchasing process
- Problem‑solving and decision‑making tools (A3, 8D, DMAIC, SPC, MSA, etc.)
- Quality Core Tools (PFMEA, APQP, MSA, R&R, flowcharting, process control plans)
- Lean production / CBS principles, methods, and tools
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas now or in the future for this job posting.
We could treat "Additional Ways To Stand Out" as Skills (preferred). Or we could merge with Qualifications as Requirements. But we have both Qualifications and Skills sections allowed. We'll put Qualifications as the mandatory requirements, and Skills as the "Additional Ways To Stand Out". Also include legal authorization as a requirement maybe under Qualifications.
We need to avoid duplication: The legal authorization appears also in Additional Ways To Stand Out; we should include it only once. Probably under Qualifications as a requirement.
We also need to include location info? Could be a short
after company description? The instruction says fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Location: ContiTech Fairlawn OH. Relocation within US possible. No international relocation. That's minor metadata; we can include as a
after company description before sections. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Remove "Additional Information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines." Also remove any duplicated lines. Now construct HTML. Start with
for company description. Then
for location metadata. Then
Responsibilities
then- ... each task.
Then
Qualifications
then- ... each qualification.
Then
Skills
then- ... each additional ways.
We need to ensure we don't include empty sections.
Check that we have all substantive content: The job description paragraph before Tasks also contains responsibilities; we could incorporate that into responsibilities as prose before the list. The instruction: Use
for prose. So we could have a
summarizing the role description before the list. But we already have a list of tasks; we could also include a
for the initial paragraph. Let's include that as a
under Responsibilities before the list. Thus Responsibilities section:
Responsibilities
[the paragraph from Job Description up to before Tasks]
- ... tasks
- ... each additional ways.
We need to ensure we don't include empty sections.
Check that we have all substantive content: The job description paragraph before Tasks also contains responsibilities; we could incorporate that into responsibilities as prose before the list. The instruction: Use
- ... each qualification.
Then
- ... each task.
Then