Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harbor Freight Tools is a national tool retailer with more than 1,600 stores across 48 states. The Sr. RPA Engineer designs, develops, tests, implements, and supports robotic process automation solutions, partnering with cross-functional teams to identify automation opportunities and improve business efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. The role also supports integrations, production monitoring, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Analyze business processes to identify automation opportunities and recommend scalable RPA and intelligent automation solutions
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain RPA bots and supporting workflows
- Gather and document requirements, including current-state and future-state process models
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues affecting bot performance and reliability
- Monitor production automations and implement enhancements and optimizations
- Ensure automation solutions comply with security, governance, and compliance standards
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, process flows, and support materials
- Support system integrations, API interactions, exception handling, and bot scheduling/orchestration
- Participate in code reviews, testing, CI/CD deployments, and release activities
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and automation best practices
Skills
- Experience in process analysis, workflow design, testing, and production support
- Experience working in enterprise environments
- Hands-on experience with RPA platforms such as Automation Anywhere or Blue Prism
- Experience implementing intelligent automation using OCR, AI/ML, LLMs, or document understanding
- Strong experience in process analysis, workflow design, testing, and production support
- Exposure to AI-assisted decision-making, including generative, predictive, and agentic AI
- Basic application development experience with React, Spring Boot, and Maven
- RPA development and orchestration
- Programming/scripting: Python, C#, Java, or VB.NET
- API integrations and system interactions
- SQL querying and database fundamentals
- CI/CD pipelines and release management
- Cloud technologies and enterprise architecture fundamentals
- Process mapping, exception handling, and automation lifecycle management
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Effective verbal and written communication
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Strong collaboration with business and technical stakeholders
- Must be able to perform this job safely in accordance with standard operating procedures and good manufacturing practices, without endangering the health or safety of self or others
- Corporate - Remote - General office environment requiring ability to: Stand, walk, sit for extended periods of time
- Speak and listen to others in person and over the phone and video conferencing
- Use keyboard and read from computer screen and reports
- The ability to lift up to 15 lbs
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related Field preferred
- RPA Certifications from major platforms preferred
- Experience working in enterprise environments; retail industry experience preferred
- Hands-on experience with RPA platforms such as UiPath preferred
- Experience working in enterprise environments; retail industry experience preferred
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- Eligible Associates are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan
- Associates will accrue paid time off up to 236 hours per year (inclusive of PTO, floating holidays, and paid holidays)
- Paid sick time up to 80 hours per year unless otherwise required by law
- Remote work
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