Robotics/Controls Engineer

About the role

Since its spin-off in September 2025 AUMOVIO continues the business of the former Continental group sector Automotive as an independent company. The technology and electronics company offers a wide-ranging portfolio that makes mobility safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous. This includes sensor solutions, displays, braking and comfort systems as well as comprehensive expertise in software, architecture platforms, and assistance systems for software-defined vehicles. In the fiscal year 2024 the business areas, which now belong to AUMOVIO, generated sales of 19.6 billion Euro. The company is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and has about 87.000 employees in more than 100 locations worldwide.

The Automation Controls Engineer provides hands-on technical leadership and controls engineering expertise for robotics, automation, and manufacturing systems while coordinating daily activities to support safe, reliable, and efficient production. This role serves as the primary point of contact for automation and controls priorities, communicates critical issues, and promotes effective collaboration among automation and robotics technicians, maintenance, engineering, operations, and supervision. Success is measured through disciplined safety and LOTO practices, timely communication, project execution, and shared accountability for OEE, scrap, equipment reliability, and safety compliance.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation and controls concepts based on process requirements, manufacturing standards, and design guidelines
• Design, develop, test, and implement PLC, HMI, SCADA, motion control, and data acquisition software using Beckhoff TwinCAT and Allen-Bradley Studio 5000 platforms
• Review equipment and production concepts including safety risk assessment, mechanical design, electrical controls, robotics, vision, and industrial communications
• Select, evaluate, and integrate automation components, controls hardware, sensors, actuators, safety devices, and robotic systems (Staubli, Universal Robots, Epson)
• Support FAT, SAT, commissioning, and production release of new equipment; coordinate line moves, installations, and project handoffs
• Develop and maintain PLC software, HMI screens, control logic, machine diagnostics, and system alarms for new and existing equipment
• Configure and support industrial networks (EtherCAT, Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Modbus TCP) and troubleshoot servo drives, VFDs, motion systems, and safety PLCs
• Diagnose and resolve mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, communication, and control-system issues to minimize downtime
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