Lead Automation Controls Engineer

General Motors
📍 Bedford, IN, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 24, 2026

Job Description

**Job Description**

The Role
The Technical Lead, Controls and Automation is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading the design, integration, launch, and continuous improvement of advanced manufacturing systems. This role provides technical leadership across controls, robotics, collaborative robotics (cobots), automation technology, and machine vision applications.
This person will serve as a hands-on technical lead who can solve complex manufacturing problems, guide project execution, and support the successful deployment of new equipment and process improvements in a fast-paced plant and manufacturing engineering environment. The ideal candidate combines strong controls fundamentals with practical experience in automation integration, vision technology, and robotics.

Core Responsibilities

+ Lead the controls and automation scope for new equipment, major upgrades, and continuous improvement projects, with responsibility across controls, ...

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Job Details

  • Location Bedford, IN
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date June 24, 2026
  • Application Deadline June 29, 2026