Automation Specialist (Industrial Automation)

Location: San Antonio, Texas, United States; onsite at the Avanzar San Antonio Facility

Company

hirify.global operates an automotive manufacturing facility requiring industrial automation support.

What you will do

• Own automation system performance and optimize automated cells for cycle time, throughput, quality, and equipment uptime.
• Develop, modify, test, and troubleshoot PLC, HMI, robot, vision, motion-control, safety, and supporting automation programs.
• Optimize robot paths, motion profiles, sequencing, interlocks, alarms, and recovery routines while maintaining safe operation.
• Configure, calibrate, validate, and maintain vision systems, sensors, error-proofing devices, servo systems, and networked industrial devices.
• Support equipment installation, commissioning, launch, and the first 90 days of stabilization with plant teams.
• Train sustainment personnel and complete stable handoffs with validated backups, recovery procedures, documentation, and performance status.

Requirements

• Experience developing and troubleshooting industrial automation programs and equipment.
• Ability to perform structured root-cause analysis and corrective actions for recurring equipment and process failures.
• Experience with offline programming, reach studies, cycle-time simulation, risk assessment, and system validation.
• Ability to manage program revisions using formal backup and version-control practices.
• Ability to maintain technical documentation, schematics, and network diagrams.
• Availability for full-time onsite work at the San Antonio facility.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with the AMA Lead and plant teams.
• Focus on safe operation, measurable performance, and permanent failure elimination.
• Work includes equipment installation, production launch, stabilization, and knowledge transfer.