Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Company: Insight Global
Title: Automation Engineer (Manufacturing / Life Sciences)
Location: Oceanside, CA 92054
Duration: Permanent
Pay: $150,000
Job Description
Insight Global is seeking an experienced Automation Engineer on behalf of a leading life sciences manufacturing organization. This individual will be responsible for identifying, developing, and implementing automation and semi-automation solutions that improve manufacturing performance across quality, delivery, capacity, and cost objectives.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience in manufacturing automation, plastics manufacturing, and capital equipment implementation. This role will work directly with engineering teams, manufacturing leaders, quality stakeholders, and external automation partners to deliver innovative solutions that optimize production processes across injection molding, inspection, assembly, and packaging operations.
Responsibilities
- Identify manufacturing processes suitable for automation and semi-automation improvements.
- Partner with automation integrators and equipment suppliers to develop innovative manufacturing solutions.
- Lead automation projects from concept through validation and production stabilization.
- Drive automation initiatives supporting injection molding, injection blow molding, assembly, inspection, and packaging operations.
- Support new product development efforts by evaluating automation opportunities during early-stage design.
- Manage project scopes, timelines, budgets, design reviews, FAT/SAT activities, installation, and start-up activities.
- Develop KPI-driven project plans with measurable improvements in productivity, quality, throughput, and cost.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure robust, compliant, and sustainable manufacturing solutions.
- Utilize structured A3 problem-solving methodologies to address operational challenges and drive continuous improvement.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field).
- 7+ years of experience in manufacturing automation.
- Experience partnering with automation integrators and capital equipment vendors.
- Experience within plastics manufacturing environments.
- Injection molding and/or injection blow molding experience preferred.
- Strong project management skills.
- Experience with A3 problem-solving methodologies.
- Hands-on manufacturing and process improvement mentality.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Background
- Medical device, life sciences, pharmaceutical, or regulated manufacturing experience.
- Experience delivering automation projects that improve quality, throughput, and manufacturing efficiency.
- Proven track record of implementing scalable automation solutions in production environments.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Oceanside, CA |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 2,500 to 4,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 2001 |
| Website | http://www.insightglobal.net |
Benefits
Paid Sick Days, Parking, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Subsidized Commuting, Employee Referral Program, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Transportation Allowance, Vehicle Allowance, Work From Home, Merchandise Discounts
About Company
We are a staffing agency helping individuals find jobs and employers fill open positions.
Based in Atlanta, Insight Global is a premier provider of employment and staffing solutions to Fortune 1000 customers across the United States and Canada. We provide long-term contract, short-term contract, temporary-to-permanent, direct placement, and enhanced staffing services. Insight Global specializes in placing contract job seekers into Information Technology, Accounting and Finance, Engineering (non-IT), and Government jobs.
Since our inception in 2001, we have experienced unprecedented growth within our industry, rapidly expanding from an Atlanta-based start-up to one of the most successful staffing firms in America.
Our core staffing services are the backbone upon which Insight Global was founded and have driven our success. We cater our delivery approach and recruiting efforts to meet each client’s unique demands, ensuring that we deliver both maximum client value and the differentiated Insight Global experience.
Skills
- Automationunmatched
- Automation Engineeringunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Capital Equipmentunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Injection Moldingunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Automationunmatched
- Manufacturing Engineeringunmatched
- Manufacturing/Industrial Processesunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Medical Equipmentunmatched
- Molding Processesunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Plastics Manufacturingunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Supportunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Productivity Managementunmatched
- Project Planningunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Sales Qualificationunmatched
- Startupunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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