INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENGINEER
OP Mobility · Troy-Michigan, MI
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Controls
- Degree
- Preferred
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Automotive
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level controls role at OP Mobility (automotive) in Troy-Michigan, MI. Customer/Industrial projects activities.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree preferred
- Tools it names
- PLC, Robotics, Automation
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Controls Engineer roles in Michigan: typical posted base $79k–$130k.
Median of the low and high ends of 15 live postings that list pay, out of 69 controls engineer openings in Michigan, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Michigan plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 68 other live controls postings in Michigan.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $79k–$130k, from 15 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Automation 74%
- ✓ Robotics 71%
- ✓ PLC 64%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 26%
- Root cause 22%
- New product launch 22%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: OP Mobility in Troy-Michigan
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requirements
Knowledge /
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor if significant experienced in the field or a Engineering Master’s degree in Automation and Robotics plus experience
- ✓Advanced experience in robotics and automation
- ✓Previous experience in an international context preferred
Previous Experience (if relevant)
- ✓Previous experience in the automotive sector is an added advantage
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Hungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution!
OPmobility is a world-leading provider of innovative solutions for a unique, safer and more sustainable mobility experience. Innovation-driven since its creation, the Group develops and produces intelligent exterior systems, customized complex modules, lighting systems, clean energy systems and electrification solutions for all mobility companies. With a €11.4 billion economic revenue in 2023, a global network of 152 plants and 40 R&D centers, OPmobility relies on its 40,300 employees to meet the challenges of transforming mobility.
Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting-edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrow’s clean and connected car.
Title: Automation Engineer
Work Location
- •Greer, SC or Troy, MI
- •This person will transfer permanently to Toledo, OH in January 2027
Activities
Project Management
- •Define and lead the activities needed to achieve the deliverables
- •Determine the project provisional budget (hours and cost)
- •Elaborate and transfers the technical data to the development, industrial and/or plant teams, with a clear identification of the remaining risks to ensure successful transfer
- •Handle some activities of the extended team depending on the project size
Metier activities
- •Seek for breakthrough initiative on Robotic, PLC and Vision field: Identify new technologies and functions, analyze market and technology trends, benchmark serial products and technologies
- •Contribute to robotic network activities linked to central roadmap
- •Lead technical standards definitions
- •Industrialize innovative solutions
Assistance to operations
- •Support operations in case of major or new issue on processes/equipment on Vision, PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)/ HMI (Human Machine Interface program) Robotic equipment.
Customer/Industrial projects activities
- •Validate technical feasibility of Vision PLC & Robotics solutions
- •Support the definition of equipment specifications & supplier sourcing
- •Perform inhouse programming tasks on PLC HMI Robots and OT/IT devices
Knowledge sharing activities
- •Consolidate lessons learnt from the projects into metier best practices and standards
- •Animate in metier networks
- •Promote externally (OEM, external institutes, academics…) and internally industrial excellence innovation roadmap
- •Train new AUTOMATION, ROBOTIC, PPA, MPM, EPM… to industrialized innovative solutions
Competences
Key technical competencies
- •5+ years of experience as Robotic or PLC specialist
- •Knowledge of SIEMENS PLC and FANUC ROBOT
- •Project management skills
- •Fluent English required
Key behavioral competencies
(be customer‑centric, cultivate innovation, act with audacity, drive results, collaborate, drive engagement, value differences, be resilient, develop yourself)
- •Leadership, able to make clear synthesis, organized, rigorous, team player
- •Ability to make decision and assess technical solution on his field
- •Ability to plan, organize and prioritize
- •Communication capability skills towards all management levels
- •Pedagogical skills
As a responsible company, OPmobility pays particular attention to diversity and equality within its teams and the Group commits to treat all job applications equally.