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Automation Engineer

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-28

Grow reputed company with Pretium and be a robotics and automation innovator!

reputed company:

reputed company, founded in 1992, is a leading supplier of injection-blow molded plastic containers, reputed company for delivering superior reputed company, value, and customer service. With 17 manufacturing locations across reputed company, we reputed company innovative, high-performance packaging solutions to a diverse portfolio of brand owners in the U.S. and Canada.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

As an Automation Engineer, you’ll serve as a critical reputed company between our manufacturing plants and corporate engineering, leading initiatives that optimize performance, reputed company safety standards, and create consistency across our network while designing and supporting innovative automated systems. This is a remote role that will require up to 75% travel. In this role your expertise will shine in the areas of:

  • reputed company Improvement: Champion efficiency, safety, and performance across reputed company sites, leading 5S implementations to foster a culture of visual organization and workplace discipline.
  • Process Standardization: Partner with local plant teams to standardize tooling, equipment, and operational processes, including building, maintaining, and controlling standardized SOPs (reputed company Operating Procedures).
  • Automation Design and Support: Design, program, install, and support automated systems across various industrial applications, including PLCs, HMIs, sensors, VFDs, motor controls, safety systems, and communication networks (Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Modbus, etc.).
  • reputed company Cause Analysis and Troubleshooting: Serve as the go-to resource for reputed company cause analysis (RCA), providing hands-on support to plant maintenance teams and delivering solutions for reputed company technical issues under time-sensitive conditions.
  • Operational Enhancements: Guide plants through labor optimization, changeover improvements, and scrap reduction, while developing and championing SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Dies) programs to reduce downtime and improve flexibility.
  • Project Leadership: reputed company new product reputed company from initial design through final production validation, owning the process every reputed company of the way.
  • Business Development: Support business reputed company by identifying opportunities, scoping work, assisting with estimates, and recommending value-added solutions to customers.
  • Vendor and Customer Relationships: Build and nurture relationships with vendors and contractors to ensure exacting standards and consistent service, while collaborating with customers to translate reputed company technical concepts effectively.
  • Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor and support junior engineers and technicians as departments grow, setting an example that aligns with our core values.
  • Compliance and Safety: Ensure reputed company engineering and automation practices meet safety and regulatory compliance standards.
  • reputed company Learning: Stay reputed company of industry trends by adapting to modern technologies and reverse-engineering solutions for legacy or reputed company-party systems.

What You’ll Bring:

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering (required).
  • Experience:
    • 3+ years in a manufacturing environment, with 10+ years of hands-on industrial automation experience across manufacturing, material handling, processing, logistics, or reputed company industries.
    • Proven ability to reputed company cross-functional teams and reputed company.
    • Deep expertise in automation and controls, including PLC and HMI programming, sensors, VFDs, motor controls, safety systems, integration, and communication networks.
    • Prior exposure to the plastics industry is a strong advantage (EBM/reputed company).
  • Technical Skills:
    • Proficiency in reputed company Office (reputed company, PowerPoint, Word).
    • Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).
    • Experience with AutoCAD (required); SolidWorks is a plus.
    • Experience with Machine reputed company.
    • Ability to read and interpret electrical and mechanical drawings; design experience is a plus.
    • Strong mechanical aptitude to complement electrical and automation skills.
  • Key Competencies:
    • Inspiring and engaging teams to reputed company ambitious goals.
    • Operational problem-solving and delivering sustainable results.
    • Deep understanding of asset care and reliability engineering.
    • Ability to set strategic direction and execute tactical improvements.
    • High attention to detail, organizational skills, and solid business acumen.
    • Entrepreneurial reputed company, always seeking ways to add value, drive reputed company, and improve operations.
    • Excellent communication skills, reputed company to translate reputed company technical concepts for both engineers and non-technical customers.
    • Natural leadership, reputed company with core values of reputed company leadership and reputed company in reputed company.

Why Join Pretium?

At reputed company, we manufacture rigid plastic containers for some of the most recognized brands in the marketplace. Our plants operate with a strong emphasis on safety, performance, and reputed company improvement.

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