Meta
Automation Reliability & Sustaining Operations Engineer
$138K–$196K
Kansas City, MO · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in automation or controls engineering within warehousing, distribution, or manufacturing.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Owns the reliability, maintenance, and performance of deployed warehouse automation systems across Meta’s warehouse network, improving uptime, throughput, and operating costs.
What you'll do
- Diagnose automation failures, document root causes, and drive reliability improvements, including preventive and predictive maintenance.
- Sustain conveyor, sortation, robotic, and warehouse-control systems; integrate and qualify replacement hardware and software.
- Lead facility maintenance teams and coordinate vendors, inspections, repairs, upgrades, and remote monitoring.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of automation or controls engineering experience in warehousing, distribution, or manufacturing.
- Experience maintaining material-handling automation and PLC/WCS/WES systems in a live operating environment.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting, integrating, calibrating, and validating electromechanical systems, actuators, and sensors.
- Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with remote-monitoring or robotics control-center models.
- Experience with reliability programs such as RCM or TPM.
Pay
$138,000/year to $196,000/year (base salary)
Tools
ASRS, AMRs, PLC, WCS, WES, RCM, TPM
AI focus
Integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and produce measurable impact; apply responsible and ethical AI practices, and continue developing AI skills such as prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration.
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