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Lead Automation Commissioning Engineer

$83,200 – $104,000 Base Salary • Greater Milwaukee Area • 100% Onsite Shop / Field Mix • Direct-Hire

• TRAVEL: 30% to 40% travel | High-visibility domestic and international commissioning & client startups
• TECH STACK: Industrial robotic arms (Fanuc, Yaskawa, ABB), PLC logic, vision tracking, and SolidWorks/CAD
• EXPERIENCE: 4 to 6 years of hands-on robotic and PLC industrial automation integration
• EDUCATION: 2-year or 4-year engineering degree required (Electrical, Mechanical, Automation, or Software)
• OVERTIME: Paid overtime eligibility on top of baseline salary + premium travel benefits

If you are a seasoned robotics professional or automation specialist looking to escape the monotony of rigid factory maintenance or isolated field service, this direct-hire engineering track offers the ultimate professional canvas. The employer is a highly prestigious, family-owned automation leader with a century-long legacy of engineering excellence. They design and build large-scale, custom automated solutions for world-class brands across the automotive, aerospace, and consumer goods sectors. Because their global client footprint is incredibly diverse, the firm enjoys remarkable market insulation and continuous backlog growth.

This role completely rejects corporate bureaucracy, maintaining a highly supportive, close-knit engineering culture where technical contributors have a direct voice in system design. You will take total engineering ownership of high-complexity, ground-up robotic systems. This role is highly satisfying because it spans the entire project lifecycle—you will see a custom cell born on paper, program its initial logic from scratch, debug its movements on the assembly floor, and ultimately deploy it live at a customer's facility.

• Start up and initialize complex robotic platforms from scratch, managing frame calibration, mastering, and multi-protocol I/O communication configurations.
• Design complete robot programming architecture, ensuring seamless handshaking logic between articulated arms, central PLCs, and material handling platforms.
• Collaborate directly with internal project leads through the entire build, run-off, and debug lifecycle to guarantee systems meet strict customer performance cycle times.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance during mechanical and electrical assembly, tracking down complex wiring faults, and optimizing advanced end-of-arm tooling (EOAT).
• Integrate, calibrate, and program advanced 2D/3D Vision Systems into robotic cells for high-speed part inspection, sorting, and precision guidance.
• Partner with internal application engineering groups to provide critical technical insights when designing future automation concepts and quoting custom projects.
• Mentor shop assembly technicians and junior automation personnel to ensure build efficiencies remain exceptionally high.

• 4 to 6 years of proven, hands-on field experience configuring, integrating, and commissioning complex robotic arms and PLC-controlled industrial equipment.
• Completed 2-year or 4-year engineering degree (Electrical, Mechanical, Automation, or Software Technology) is required.
• Direct experience utilizing robotic offline simulation software, editing ladder logic, and referencing digital mechanical designs within SolidWorks/CAD.
• Expert-level capability diagnosing multi-variant automated system faults across robotic, electrical, fluid power, and mechanical safety domains.
• Practical background setting up, troubleshooting, and programming dedicated vision hardware, lighting arrays, and industrial cameras.
• Full availability to travel 30% to 40% of the year globally to handle customer startups and face-to-face system handoffs.
• Proximity to the facility, with the requirement to reside within a dependable 45-minute daily driving radius of the Brown Deer, WI area shop when not traveling.

Please apply here or at impactsolutions.com/opportunities where you can see and apply for any of our open positions.