Jobs at Daifuku

Designs and develops industrial automation control systems for material handling solutions. Responsibilities include creating control specifications, schematics, device layouts, PLC programs, and automated equipment sequences. Leads large projects and team members, coordinates schedules and costs, conducts prototype and on-site beta testing, and investigates field issues. Requires expertise in HMI, SCADA, Allen-Bradley and Schneider controls, electrical CAD systems, and industrial automation. Domestic travel may reach 40%.

Designs and documents electrical control systems for material handling projects, including device layouts, schematics, panel layouts, power distribution, network details, bills of material, and installation drawings. Coordinates materials and panel orders, supports fabrication and field installation, updates as-built drawings, and improves departmental automation tools and processes. Requires travel of up to 20%.

Designs and develops industrial control systems for automated material-handling equipment. Responsibilities include PLC programming, control-panel schematics, HMI and SCADA integration, prototype development, testing, troubleshooting, and leading large or multiple projects. The role collaborates with electrical and project teams, supports manufacturing transitions, mentors junior engineers, and conducts onsite beta testing. Domestic travel within North America may reach 40%.

Develops and tests automated material-handling products, including conveyors, sortation systems, storage equipment, order-fulfillment technology, and robotics. Responsibilities include specifying operations, designing control schematics, programming PLCs, supporting control-panel fabrication, conducting prototype and beta testing, investigating field issues, and maintaining schedules and cost estimates. The role requires collaboration across engineering and manufacturing teams and up to 40% domestic travel.

Designs and coordinates highly automated material handling systems across mechanical, controls, structural, AS/RS, and robotics disciplines. Responsibilities include reviewing proposals, facilitating design reviews, managing engineering schedules, monitoring deliverables and costs, coordinating vendors and customers, ensuring code and safety compliance, supporting construction and acceptance activities, and resolving engineering issues. The role requires occasional project-site travel and leadership across multiple engineering teams.

Designs and develops industrial automation control systems for material handling solutions, including automated equipment sequences, control panel schematics, PLC programs, prototypes, and testing. Leads projects, supports manufacturing transition, investigates field issues, and ensures safety, reliability, performance, and cost objectives. The role also provides technical direction and training, manages schedules and estimates, and performs domestic travel for beta testing and customer-related activities.

Supports planning, execution, commissioning, financial tracking, vendor coordination, customer communication, and closeout for material handling automation projects. Assists with schedules, budgets, risks, procurement, change management, installation, startup, and acceptance testing. The role includes extensive travel, field assignments, mentoring, and progressively increasing ownership, with advancement toward independent Project Manager responsibilities.

Designs and enhances conveyor and automated material handling systems, reviews engineering and installation drawings, coordinates technical development, obtains vendor quotes, monitors project schedules and costs, and resolves design issues. Collaborates with mechanical, electrical, industrial, controls, software, customers, vendors, and installers. Uses AutoCAD and/or SolidWorks and travels up to 20% for site measurements, commissioning, and customer interfacing.

Manages material handling automation projects involving conveyors, robotics, AS/RS, structures, controls, software, and machinery. Responsibilities include planning and execution, financial and resource management, customer and supplier contracts, project documentation, status reporting, and simultaneous project coordination across multiple locations. The role requires knowledge of warehouse systems, logistics, automation, software development processes, accounting, and contracts, with travel up to 50% and occasional weekend or evening work during go-live events.

Leads technical engineering activities for a strategic warehouse automation customer account. Owns customer specifications, compliance, solution consistency, technical escalations, design standards, and engineering quality across multiple projects. Supports systems engineering, applications, sales resource planning, vendor qualification, product approvals, modularization, and customer communications. Mentors engineers and coordinates multidisciplinary teams while improving efficiency and reducing project risk. Requires up to 35% domestic travel in North America.