Applicatons Engineer (m / f / d) - Automated Manufacturing Systems

ATS Company : Industrial Automation Requisition ID : 14278 Location :

Koblenz, RP, DE, 56070

#job-location.job-location-inline { display : inline; } Date : Dec 19, 2025

Applicatons Engineer (m / f / d) - Automated Manufacturing Systems

About the role

We are seeking a Systems Architect to join our Pre-Automation Services Team, where you will play a critical role collaborating with our customers to shape the front-end architecture of advanced automated manufacturing systems. This is a conceptual and pre-design role that defines the digital and physical frameworks guiding all downstream engineering, controls, and software activities.

Your core mission is to determine what should be built and how it should function, using systems thinking, simulation, and data-driven decision making to architect solutions that are scalable, integrated, and future-ready. This is not a detailed design, controls, or implementation role. This is a strategic design role at the intersection of systems engineering, industrial engineering, and advanced automation, focused on upstream system architecture, risk reduction, and requirements development.

You will work directly with customers and internal teams to define high-level concepts, assess technical feasibility, and develop architectural content that serve as the blueprint for future automation programs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems, Industrial, Mechanical, Software, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. Master’s or MBA is an asset.
• 7+ years of experience in systems architecture, automation strategy, or conceptual design of complex manufacturing systems

Knowledge of Systems engineering principles (requirements development, interface management, V-model, risk analysis and mitigation)

Simulation tools (Plant Simulation, or equivalent)

Industrial automation systems (robotics, PLCs, SCADA, MES, data acquisition, I / O)

Data and integration protocols (OPC, Ethernet / IP, etc.)

Vertical integration layers above core automation systems (MES, SCADA, ERP, cloud / edge platforms, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc.)

Smart factory frameworks (Industry 4.0, Digital Twin concepts, etc.)

Lean Six Sigma and applying CI tools at a systems level

Key Responsibilities

Join our globally growing team at ATS Industrial Automation where we create complex automation solutions at the highest level that sustainably impact lives around the world.

At ATS, a publicly traded global company with a proud 40-year history, we help drive the future with our factory-wide automation solutions. At ATS Industrial Automation, what we do matters - both to our customers and to their customers. With 600 skilled employees around the world, we design, build and service mission-critical automated assembly and test solutions for mobility, nuclear and specialty automation. Our customers are leaders in their industries and rely on us to deliver what we promise - on time and on budget. Combined with our broad product portfolio, financial strength and global presence, we provide our customers with the best automation solutions wherever and whenever they need them.

Join our ATS Industrial Automation Team because :