AMHS/AMR Industrial Automation Engineer

LOA: 12 months, Approx. 1,200 hours initially indicated, averaging around 25 hours per week; activity-based flexibility and potential additional hours subject to agreement

Location: Regensburg, Germany - Predominantly on-site in Regensburg, particularly testing, commissioning and cleanroom activity; some remote work possible depending on task

Language(s): Strong German communication required for production, engineering and supplier coordination

Work Schedule: 25-30 hours/ week, 4/5 days per week, (40hours/week is also possible)

Support the automation team in testing, commissioning, validating, stabilising and operationally supporting autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and automated material handling (AMHS) systems in semiconductor manufacturing. Diagnose and resolve technical issues where possible, coordinate other parties where needed, and help safely scale automated transport into production.

Musts:

• Hands-on industrial/factory automation engineering or support experience, with relevant AMHS/AMR material movement and troubleshooting experience strongly prioritised.
• Able to investigate real physical-system faults and resolve issues or coordinate effective engineering action; not solely a scheduling/project-control PM.
• Clear communication and stakeholder coordination skills in German.
• Availability for regular site and cleanroom presence in Regensburg.

Pluses:

• Semiconductor manufacturing and material-transport experience preferred; comparable manufacturing backgrounds are eligible for consideration.
• Working understanding of SEMI material-handling/equipment standards such as E84 and E87 useful, but not a strict prerequisite.
• Exposure to manufacturing execution systems, SAP, RFID/tracking or industrial control interfaces useful; previous knowledge of the client’s proprietary MES is not expected.
• Mid-level experience is acceptable; no fixed minimum years or named AMR supplier proficiency established.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Participate actively in AMR transport trials in the cleanroom (front-end manufacturing); observe real equipment and physical material flows.
• Validate that transport requests are generated, AMRs move product between racks and equipment correctly, and downstream equipment accepts product and proceeds as intended.
• Support staged operation expansion, potentially from limited hours/day to continuous weekday operation and eventually 24/7 operation.
• Document operating results, failures, anomalies, actions and improvement opportunities. Unlike formal software QA, work is principally live operational transport validation rather than execution of a fixed existing test suite.
• Perform first-level fault diagnosis on AMR/AMHS, system interfaces, RFID/tracking and associated MES/SAP/control-system interactions; collect logs and relevant evidence.
• Investigate and fix problems independently within capability; coordinate escalations, root-cause analysis and resolution with production, automation engineering, IT, suppliers and vendors.
• Monitor and communicate operational stability and key measures including uptime/downtime, availability, incident frequency, MTBF/MTTR and successful transport orders.
• Maintain incident/action tracking and clear status reports (tools may include Jira, Confluence or SharePoint), document best practices and complete knowledge transfer to the internal team.