Senior Forensic Engineer
The Vertex Companies LLC
Commissioning Engineer
Avature
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $95,000 - $115,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Go
About the role
- Commission the company’s automated storage solutions (pallet shuttles, tote shuttles, AMRs) and ancillary equipment (conveyors, lifts)
- Setup, configure, interface, and integrate systems with customer Warehouse Control Systems and IT systems
- Lead complete commissioning process including preparation, pre-commissioning, commissioning, Go Live, reporting and signoff
- Configure PLC software, perform live testing, and validate communication protocols, sensors, instrumentation, and safety devices
- Provide on-site and remote troubleshooting during commissioning, go-live, and support service interventions
- Create and deliver comprehensive reports, technical procedures, and customer training for integrators, maintenance and operations staff
- Identify technical challenges, recommend system optimizations, and report commercial Service opportunities to management
- Work at various customer sites (including cold storage and at heights) and collaborate with international teams
Requirements
- Experience with installing/commissioning automated systems, ideally in material handling/automation/robotics
- Strong working knowledge of electromechanical, robotic, and automated systems
- Ideally experience with PLC programming, VFD configuration and/or conveyor systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required (ideally Mechatronics, Automation, Robotics, or Controls Engineering)
- Affinity with programming languages and command line terminal preferred
- Willingness and ability to travel to project sites across the USA and Canada consistently (travel ~90%)
- Live in commutable distance to office in Romeoville, IL, Northwestern Indiana, or Indianapolis, IN
- Ability to work at heights and in cold storage environments, using appropriate safety gear
- Ability to perform PLC software configuration, live testing, troubleshooting, and system integration
- Ability to work occasional evenings/weekends during go-live and tradeshows
- Collaboration with international (European) colleagues during overlapping morning hours
- Office hours 8 am – 5 pm CST but variable depending on project site
