Senior Solutions Engineer
About the role
LiftOne is a family-owned company under its fourth generation of leadership, built on trust, integrity, and a desire to help customers and employees succeed. The company invests in people, facilities, and innovative technology to support the country’s supply chain and enable critical goods delivery. As a privately held company, LiftOne pairs scale with a strong cultural foundation, providing a competitive advantage and a trailblazing organization built to last. They seek hard‑working, team‑oriented professionals who enjoy new challenges and are committed to employee growth, offering great benefits, competitive salaries, and advancement opportunities.
Join BlueSkye Automation to design and sell cutting‑edge automated warehouse systems. This role is for proven engineers who thrive on variety; no two system problems look the same, requiring quick thinking, direct work with automation OEMs, and delivering the right solution for the customer. You will own projects end‑to‑end with urgency, as BlueSkye Automation grows rapidly and engineers hired now will shape its future. The company is hiring high performers who want that impact.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Account Managers to concept, design, and cost custom solutions across a diverse customer base
- Analyze customer data — throughput, SKU velocity, storage profiles, labor models — to drive design decisions
- Serve as the technical authority across multiple OEM platforms and determine the right integration methodology for each application
- Translate customer operational problems into a defensible technical scope and budgetary number
- Own system requirements from PO through System Sign Off, ensuring the system performs as intended and meets customer specification
- Design, source, and document custom solutions
- Manage technical documentation: layout drawings, technical agreements, descriptions of operation, sequence of operations, acceptance criteria
- Manage customer stakeholders and communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences
- Operate with urgency; understand cost and schedule constraints and how each shapes technical execution
- Partner with Project Management on project financials, deliverables, and change orders
- Hold OEMs and vendors accountable to BlueSkye's design and quality standards
- Support commissioning, testing, and issue resolution through system acceptance
- Work shoulder to shoulder with Sales, Project Management, Service, Operations, and OEM partners; bring engineering discipline to the sales process and commercial awareness to the engineering process
- Share lessons from installed systems back into how we design and quote the next one
- Step into gaps on a growing team; adopt an “I’ve got it” mindset rather than “that’s not my scope”
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.