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Automation Engineer

ABB

ABB

Software Engineering
Como, TX, USA
Posted on Jul 4, 2025

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to:

Maintenance Manager


Your Role and Responsibilities

You will lead the processes in maintaining and preserving the efficiency of all equipment, production lines, and/or facilities, resulting in the optimization of technical and financial resources.


- Work model: LI-Hybrid

In this role, you’ll help run what runs the world by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact, as you will be accountable for:

  • Troubleshooting and developing PLC systems, ensuring optimal performance and supporting automation improvements across production lines.

  • Designing and maintaining dashboards and performance metrics to enable data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.

  • Overseeing ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of equipment, production lines, and facilities, defining maintenance plans for new installations and ensuring technical documentation is up to date.

  • Leading technical problem-solving and improvement initiatives, addressing major equipment issues, proposing efficiency projects, and responding to emergencies to minimize production disruptions.

  • Being the point of contact for the IS department regarding topics related to the data network and industrial PCs, with the purpose of staying up to date with IS policy.

Qualifications for the Role

  • You are highly skilled in PLC troubleshooting and development, maintenance planning, and performance monitoring, and you enjoy working with industrial automation tools and methodologies in the manufacturing and engineering sector.

  • You have at least 2 years of experience in industrial automation, with a strong background in PLC systems, maintenance operations, and production line optimization.

  • You are highly adept in specialized automation platforms and have hands-on experience with dashboard and metric development tools.

  • You are passionate about problem-solving and continuous improvement, and innovative around cross-functional collaboration and operational efficiency.

  • You have a degree in Automation Engineering, with proven experience in managing technical documentation, maintenance strategies, and equipment reliability.

  • You are at ease communicating in English and Italian, both written and spoken.

Benefits

Locally, you can count on:

  • Competitive compensation: Attractive salary packages and performance bonuses.

  • Corporate welfare: Access to a wide range of services and personal well-being support.

  • Career development: Structured career paths, individual development plans, opportunities for internal mobility, including international roles, technical and managerial training programs, mentoring and access to global learning platforms

  • Flexibility and work-life balance: Flexible working hours, hybrid work options, and a strong focus on work-life integration.

  • Employee Support: free services like psychological help, wellness coaching, and emotional support for employees and their families.

  • Parental Leave: at least 12 weeks of fully paid leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers, promoting DEI values.

  • Meal allowance: Access to the canteen or ticket restaurant is provided to support daily lunch expenses.

More about us

The Measurement & Analytics Division is among the world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of smart instrumentation and analyzers, working at the heart of industrial digital transformation. The Measurement & Analytics Division’s portfolio consists of analyzers measuring compositions of gases and liquids; instrumentation measuring process variables such as temperature, pressure, flow, and level; force measurement solutions measuring parameters such as flatness, thickness, and tension; and advanced digital solutions for device management, device health check and predictive maintenance. The Measurement & Analytics Division serves key industries such as oil and gas, chemical, water and wastewater, power, hydrogen, batteries, as well as the marine industry. The Division enables the optimization of industrial processes by providing and analyzing data collected from sensing and smart measurement devices. Parameters such as emission levels and production inputs are measured by providing ‘before’ and ‘after’ values, enabling efficient operations and environmental sustainability through measurement.

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world.
Run What Runs the World.

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