Position: Automation Industrial Engineer
Duration: 1 year contract possible extensions
Location: Dayton, OH
Shift: 1st shift
OT: Not initially potentially later some weekends
Must Haves:
- Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Logistics Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Automotive manufacturing experience.
- Material automation, logistics automation, or warehouse automation projects.
- Labor planning, industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, or continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience supporting automation solution development from concept through implementation.
- Familiarity with simulation, digital manufacturing, or digital twin technologies.
- Exposure to controls systems, industrial networking, robotics integration, or automated material handling equipment.
- Experience collaborating with automation suppliers, system integrators, or equipment manufacturers.
- Experience using data visualization and reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Job Description:
Insight Global is looking for an Automation Industrial Engineer in Dayton, OH. This is a great opportunity for an Industrial Engineer with automotive manufacturing experience who enjoys solving problems and improving plant operations through automation. In this role, you'll analyze material flow, identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, and support the deployment of automation technologies such as AMRs, AGVs, AFTs, and other automated material handling systems to ensure parts are delivered efficiently to operators on the plant floor. The team is looking for someone with strong Industrial Engineering fundamentals, including labor planning, time studies, process improvement, and data analysis, who can partner with plant teams, suppliers, and engineers to develop and implement automation solutions. This is a highly analytical, data-driven role focused on reducing costs, improving efficiency, and supporting an OEM's automation initiatives.
Job Responsibilities:
Material Flow Analysis & Solution Development
- Evaluate current-state manufacturing and material flow processes to identify automation and operational improvement opportunities. Conduct labor, productivity, and process analyses to quantify inefficiencies, support business cases, and prioritize automation investments.
- Analyze material flow, inventory replenishment methods, delivery frequencies, space utilization, and line-side delivery strategies.
- Develop future-state process concepts that improve safety, ergonomics, quality, productivity, and operational efficiency.
- Create automation concepts utilizing technologies such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), automated fork trucks (AFTs), automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), automated kitting, sequencing systems, and related solutions.
- Support the development of project justifications, feasibility assessments, cost benefit analyses, and implementation strategies. Collaborate with plant teams and stakeholders to align automation opportunities with business objectives and operational needs.
Planning & Engineering
- Support facility, process, and material flow planning activities associated with manufacturing automation projects.
- Develop and review layouts, route concepts, operational requirements, and material delivery strategies.
- Participate in simulation, modeling, and analysis activities used to evaluate automation solutions and operational performance.
- Determine operational requirements including throughput targets, staffing impacts, fleet sizing, route capacities, and system utilization. Partner with internal engineering teams and suppliers to develop practical, scalable solutions.
Deployment & Launch Support
- Support implementation, commissioning, startup, and stabilization activities for automation systems and material handling technologies.
- Collaborate with deployment engineers, controls engineers, suppliers, and plant personnel during project execution.
- Assist with troubleshooting material flow, process integration, and system performance issues during launch activities.
- Validate operational performance and identify opportunities to improve system effectiveness following deployment.
- Support achievement of project timing, safety, quality, and operational objectives. Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with operations, maintenance, engineering, materials, logistics, supply chain, safety, IT, and external suppliers.
- Facilitate discussions and workshops to align stakeholders on future-state processes and automation strategies.
- Communicate project progress, recommendations, risks, and improvement opportunities to project teams and leadership.
- Support supplier evaluations, solution reviews, and implementation activities.
Documentation & Continuous Improvement
- Develop and maintain project documentation, process documentation, implementation plans, training materials, and operational work instructions as required.
- Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement of automation standards, methodologies, and deployment processes.
- Share best practices and support knowledge transfer across project teams.