Sr. Automation & Process Engineer

The Marmon Group LLC

Come join a team where People make the difference! As a part of Marmon Holdings, Inc., a highly decentralized organization, we rely heavily on people with the aptitude, attitude, and entrepreneurial spirit to drive our success, and we're committed to attracting and retaining top talent.

Marmon is a $12 billion industrial conglomerate with over 200 industrial facilities in North America. Over the past 2 years, the Innovation and Automation group has led or assisted with factory and robotic automation projects at multiple facilities and had remarkable success. We’ve deployed dozens of new automation systems and pieces of factory equipment. We’re now scaling our team, process, and reach to execute or assist with dozens of projects per year.

Marmon is now looking for an engineer and leader with extensive process, operations, and LEAN experience to join our growing factory automation team. Is your experience light in one of these areas? No problem! Bring your excellent engineering skills, drive to learn, and we’ll teach you the rest!

Why Marmon?

Are you a builder? Do you like to define your own solutions and then execute them? Are you tired of the “stay in your lane” attitude? We’re on a mission to help our 200+ businesses invest in themselves by demystifying and streamlining the process of adding factory automation. We’re a group of Engineers identifying blockers, building tools, and executing on projects in the factory automation space. Everyone on the team is empowered and expected to make changes to improve the way we do things. You’ll get exposure across all of our business segments to industry-leading executives, engineers, and factories. If this sounds exciting, Marmon is the place for you!

This role will involve 40-70% travel. Have your home base at our Chicago or Houston innovation hubs, one of our many manufacturing facilities, or work remote during non-travel periods.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead 3-4 simultaneous projects
• Act as individual contributor on 1-3 projects; mentor and guide Jr. engineers on 1-3 additional projects
• Mentor and guide others as required. Leadership opportunities available if desired
• Leverage Jr engineers for technical problem solving as needed
• Use your skills in process and LEAN to build project scopes which use automation technology to improve factory process flow and optimize ROI or other KPI’s
• Map existing factory processes, educate businesses on bottlenecks, propose and implement future states which align with business growth and investment goals
• Own responsibility for technical project leadership. Use prior engineering knowledge or gain new knowledge to be the project technical expert
• Use engineering knowledge and subject matter experts to architect automation solutions
• Spearhead technology research to deliver state-of-the-art processes and designs
• Work across multiple facilities with separate stakeholder teams and processes
• Work with project managers to set and manage goals, deliverables, and timelines
• Build payback models and assist in writing capital requests
• Use existing Marmon automation implementation process to guide your workflow
• Update and improve Marmon processes as you learn. Contribute to shared knowledge base
• Attend trade shows, vendor visits, etc., to become a rounded industry expert on current state of the art technologies and implementation strategies
• Teach and mentor businesses to continue executing projects
  
  

What You’ll Bring to the Role:

• Preferred degree areas: Mechanical engineering, Industrial engineering, Automation engineering, and Project management / Operations
• 5-15+ years’ work experience in Operations, Process engineering, LEAN, Automation, and similar
• Comfortable in ambiguous situations where requirements may be unclear
• Comfortable setting your own agenda to accomplish goals when needed
• Comfortable in factory environments
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Knowledge of LEAN principles
• 40-70% travel, domestic
• Strong organizational skills
• MUST be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
  
  

If this sounds like you, let’s talk! We’re building something pretty cool here, and this is an opportunity you won’t want to miss!

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to careers@marmon.com, and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.