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Location: Menomonee Falls, WI | Schedule: Full-time, First Shift base hours with 40–70 travel days annually for domestic and international field deployments | Compensation: Up to $80,000 base salary plus travel per diem

Overview

An established, highly stable global manufacturer of high-performance automated systems is seeking a Field Automation Engineer to support the full lifecycle of its precision equipment. This role blends hands-on shop testing at a state-of-the-art facility in the Menomonee Falls, WI area with international field commissioning, offering a high-visibility seat with direct exposure to leadership and significant technical ownership.

What you'll do

• Lead on-site machinery installations, system integrations, and final Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) at client facilities worldwide, providing technical guidance to site operators
• Apply advanced diagnostic techniques to isolate component faults, troubleshoot complex automated machinery, and implement lasting fixes using multi-page schematics
• Perform PLC and HMI software downloads, verify logic parameters, and safely work within high-voltage (480V) control panels, multi-axis industrial drives, and low-voltage sensor networks
• Schedule and lead internal Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) prior to shipment, auditing completed machinery to ensure zero-defect quality standards
• Formulate and submit Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) to design engineering based on field insights to improve future machinery design
• Oversee technical setup, mechanical alignment, and electrical hookup of custom automated equipment for industry trade shows

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on experience commissioning, servicing, or maintaining complex electro-mechanical industrial machinery or capital equipment
• Proficiency troubleshooting automated systems, wiring industrial controls, and interpreting multi-page electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic schematics with minimal oversight
• Full willingness and ability to travel 40–70 days per year, including maintaining a valid passport (or immediate ability to acquire one) for international deployments
• Strong customer-facing communication skills for operator training, field service logging, and client collaboration
• Must reside within daily commuting distance of the Menomonee Falls, WI area
• Must possess a candidate-provided comprehensive mechanical and electrical field service toolset
• Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder, legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship

Preferred qualifications

• Exposure to troubleshooting or modifying logic in Rockwell Automation (Studio 5000/Logix) or Siemens TIA Portal environments
• Hands-on experience with precision laser alignment, rigging, and heavy machinery leveling
• Prior experience delivering structured operator and maintenance team training during equipment handovers

Compensation and benefits

• Starting base salary up to $80,000, scaling with field experience
• Travel per diem for field deployments
• Full benefits package

Why this role

This role offers direct reporting visibility, true ownership of the equipment lifecycle from FAT through SAT and ECR submission, and constant technical variety across cutting-edge automated systems in a flat, team-oriented organization.