Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ConveyX Solutions is a Michigan-based manufacturer specializing in material handling systems. They are seeking a Senior Project Engineer to lead the technical development of various equipment projects, ensuring solutions are manufacturable, installable, and maintainable while meeting customer objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead project engineering for layouts, equipment concepts, technical scope, RFQs, vendor coordination, and design reviews
- Evaluate product flow, throughput, accumulation, transfers, merges, diverts, ergonomics, maintenance access, installation constraints, and commissioning risk
- Develop solutions that balance safety, customer requirements, physics, reliability, simplicity, maintainability, schedule, and total installed cost
- Support proposals, budgets, basis-of-design documents, customer reviews, and internal handoffs with clear assumptions, exclusions, risks, and next steps
- Coordinate mechanical, controls, fabrication, installation, and startup activity to reduce rework and protect project execution
- Work directly with customers and internal teams to understand application needs, propose practical solutions, and support project handoff and execution
- Prepare and review technical proposals, layouts, supporting documentation, vendor RFQs, installation considerations, and commissioning plans
- Communicate clearly with customers, vendors, installers, manufacturing, sales, estimating, project management, controls teams, and technicians
Skills
- Senior-level engineering experience with conveyor, sortation, automation, distribution, fulfillment, parcel, pallet handling, or related industrial systems
- Ability to read, review, and challenge layouts, drawings, RFQs, specifications, vendor quotes, and customer requirements
- Strong technical communication with customers, vendors, installers, manufacturing, sales, estimating, project management, and technicians
- Practical problem-solving skills with the ability to identify risks, weak assumptions, and likely points of failure under real operating conditions
- Ability to support technical proposals, equipment scopes, budgets, design reviews, customer reviews, and internal project handoffs
- Ability to work with layout and project tools used in conveyor and automation environments, such as AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, project schedules, vendor documentation, and related engineering tools
- Strong working knowledge of material flow, product behavior, equipment selection, installation realities, and project risk
- Knowledge of conveyor, sortation, pallet handling, retrofit, custom equipment, warehouse automation, and systems integration projects
- Practical familiarity with controls architecture, preferably Allen-Bradley / Rockwell Automation, Ethernet/IP, distributed I/O, VFDs, MDR, sensors, barcode readers, and safety devices
- Understanding of technical proposals, vendor RFQs, equipment scopes, controls concepts, and startup support plans
- Knowledge of manufacturable, installable, maintainable, and commercially sound engineering solutions
- Conveyor manufacturing, custom equipment, retrofit projects, warehouse automation, or systems integration
- Technical proposals, vendor RFQs, equipment scopes, controls concepts, and startup support plans
- Experience with distribution, fulfillment, parcel, pallet handling, ecommerce, warehousing, logistics, or high-volume unit handling environments
- Experience collaborating with sales, software/controls engineers, third-party suppliers, end users, project managers, and installation teams
- Engineering degree or equivalent practical experience in mechanical, industrial, manufacturing, systems, or controls engineering preferred
Benefits
- Competitive pay based on competency
- 100% employer-paid health insurance and HSA for employees
- Flexible paid time off and holidays
- 401(k) with employer matching
- Discretionary bonuses
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