Automation Engineer
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Insight Global is seeking an Automation Engineer to support a highly automated manufacturing facility in the Dayton, Tennessee area. The role provides hands-on automation and controls support, troubleshooting equipment issues and improving reliability, safety, quality, and throughput. The engineer will collaborate across plant teams, support equipment upgrades and capital projects, and maintain automation documentation and standards. The position is onsite and may involve overtime, shutdowns, and occasional weekend work.
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Job Description
Insight Global is seeking an Automation Engineer for one of their clients in the Greater Chattanooga area within the manufacturing industry. This onsite role will support a highly automated manufacturing facility in the Dayton, TN area, providing hands-on automation and controls support to improve equipment reliability, safety, quality, throughput, and overall performance. Day to day, the Automation Engineer will troubleshoot, repair, program, and optimize PLCs, HMIs, drives, robotics, sensors, actuators, safety circuits, and industrial control networks. They will analyze equipment downtime and recurring failures, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to minimize production disruptions and improve equipment effectiveness. The engineer will work closely with Maintenance, Production, Quality, Engineering, Safety, and IT/OT teams to resolve complex equipment issues and drive continuous improvement initiatives. They will also support capital projects and equipment upgrades through installation, commissioning, validation, documentation, training, and turnover to plant teams. This individual will maintain controls documentation, system backups, change management practices, and automation standards while supporting preventive and predictive maintenance strategies. The ideal candidate will bring experience from automotive or another highly automated manufacturing environment and be comfortable supporting urgent automation issues, planned shutdowns, overtime, and occasional weekend work.
Skills and Requirements
5+ years of automation/controls experience in a highly automated manufacturing environment Rockwell/Allen-Bradley or Siemens PLC programming experience Experience with HMIs, drives/VFDs, robotics, sensors, and automated equipment Strong electrical/controls troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Mechatronics or equivalent technical experience Able to work onsite in the Dayton, TN area and support occasional overtime, weekends, or shutdowns Automotive or similar high-speed manufacturing experience TIA Portal, WinCC, or similar HMI/controls platforms FANUC or KUKA robotics experience Capital equipment installation, commissioning, and startup experience Preventive/predictive maintenance and continuous improvement experience
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 2,357 open Automation Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Tennessee median$109–171K/yr30 salary ranges
- US median$35–57/hr212 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 52 open Automation Engineer jobs in Tennessee and 2,357 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Tennessee
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Automation Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,963 postings).
- Education
- 1,062 of the 2,357 open Automation Engineer jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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