Automation & Controls Engineer Seen this week
The Role
You'll be at the heart of bringing the production system to life. K2 is vertically integrating its production system, and you'll work side-by-side with the production and engineering team to concept, develop, and roll out automation projects. You'll develop deep technical intuition, contribute to systems that scale, and grow into increasingly complex challenges as you push towards higher-rate production.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and production engineers to ensure seamless production automation across hardware and control layers
- Design and develop production tooling and electromechanical automation assemblies either in-house or through vendors
- Own hands-on buildout, activation, and qualification of automation and controls projects across the production line spanning machine design, robotics, computer vision, and other systems
- Implement HMI strategy and PLC automation in a way that makes machines easy to operate with repeatable results
- Understand build flow, production reliability, and process control to implement strategies to increase production takt rate and first pass yield
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, aerospace, materials or other relevant engineering discipline
- 2+ years of experience in a high-volume manufacturing, production, or hands-on engineering environment
- Strong hands-on aptitude and willingness to work directly with hardware on the production floor
- Exposure to precision assembly or electromechanical integration processes
- Ability to read engineering drawings, schematics, and technical documentation
- Experience setting up a manufacturing/production floor for first article builds
Nice to Have
- Hands-on experience with industrial automation hardware and controls, PLC/HMI/Robotics software control stacks, electrical and fluid schematics
- Exposure to space, defense, or other high-reliability manufacturing environments
- Experience designing automation systems for manufacturability
- Demonstrated experience developing production processes from the ground up including driving design improvements for manufacturing