Senior Industrial Simulation Developer

Overview

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees, we support customers in sectors including food, medicine, clean water, and green mobility. We seek makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who want to do their best work.

Job Description: As a Senior Industrial Simulation Developer at OTTO By Rockwell Automation, you will create and run simulations to optimize robot fleets and system solutions. You will be part of the Industrial Simulation and Analytics Services (ISA) team, lead modeling and simulation projects, and consult with customers. The ISA team collaborates with Systems Engineering, Applications Engineering Project Management, and Customers to support solution design from concept through deployment. You will build material flow strategies (based on self-driving vehicles) for products in our portfolio and for new products. Your goal is to develop accurate and robust simulations to evaluate design, lower risk, and enhance solutions to fuel growth. This is a remote-based role and reports to the Simulation and Analysis Services Manager.

Primary Responsibilities

• Creating discrete event simulations for material handling systems to establish equipment, layout and operation requirements, identify traffic bottlenecks and gain insight on expected performance
• Consulting with project leads, sales team members and customers to obtain understanding of the requirements and to collect the necessary inputs
• Analyzing results and making recommendations for facility layout and material flow design
• Presenting simulation results to our team of engineers, our sales team, and to clients
• Validating models against real world data to maintain accuracy relative to product portfolio
• Troubleshooting simulation issues and bugs
• Growing and improving our simulation library and internal templates for functionality, accuracy, scalability and efficiency
• Interacting with the development team to assess impact of new features or products
• Recommending product feature and improvement ideas to Product and Engineering teams to optimize real-world systems
• Developing simulation models to assist Sales & Marketing in demonstrating company products and capabilities

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field
• Legal authorization to work in Canada or the US is required. We will not sponsor employment visas for this job opening.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Proven success executing simulation projects to evaluate feasibility of facility or process design, mitigate deployment risks and identify operational opportunities
• Ability to propose, test and communicate industrial engineering principles to contribute to solution feasibility/improvements
• Experience with discrete event simulation tools (preference for Simio and/or Emulate3D)
• Strong questioning to ensure end users get value from your work; emphasis on early goal alignment and scope definition
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional and external client teams to gather data for model development and analysis
• Ability to clearly communicate model functionality and assumptions to clients or internal teams
• Customer-first mindset
• Self-learner mentality
• Ability to cope with sudden changes in projects, priorities, scope

Bonus Points

• Experience identifying traffic and material flow bottlenecks and mitigating risk
• Experience in manufacturing and/or material handling industry
• Experience with simulation library development
• Experience with object-oriented programming, C#
• Comfort with block diagrams and flowcharts

What We Offer In Canada

• Health Insurance including Medical and Dental
• Health Care Spending Account
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Retirement plans
• Paid Time Off
• Volunteering Time off
• Employer Savings Plan Matching (RRSP, TFSA, EPSP)
• Employer Paid DC Pension
• Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up
• Fitness Reimbursement Program
• Flexible Work Schedule

What We Offer In The US

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time Off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule
• For more information about benefits, please visit www.raquickfind.com

This posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization.

Compensation: 91,040 - 136,560 CAD annual for Canada candidates and 99,280 - 148,920 USD annual for US candidates. Actual pay is based on skills, knowledge, education, and experience.

Rockwell Automation is committed to a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. This position is part of a job family; experience determines the position level and compensation. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact our services team at +1 (519) 618-4899.