Senior Solutions Engineer

Join BlueSkye Automation

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Summary

Join BlueSkye Automation to design and sell cutting edge automated warehouse systems. This role is built for proven engineers who thrive on variety. No two system problems look the same, so we need people who can think on their feet, work directly with automation OEMs, and land the right solution at the right time for the customer — not the easy one or the familiar one.

You'll own your projects end to end and move with urgency. BlueSkye Automation is growing rapidly and the engineers who join now will shape what it becomes. We're hiring high performers who want that.

Essential Functions Below, Other Duties May Be Assigned.

Sales Support

• Partner with Account Managers to concept, design, and cost custom solutions across a diverse customer base
• Analyze customer data — throughput, SKU velocity, storage profiles, labor models — to drive design decisions
• Serve as the technical authority across multiple OEM platforms and determine the right integration methodology for each application
• Translate customer operational problems into a defensible technical scope and budgetary number

Design

• Own system requirements from PO through System Sign Off, ensuring the system performs as intended and meets customer specification
• Design, source, and document custom solutions
• Manage technical documentation: layout drawings, technical agreements, descriptions of operation, sequence of operations, acceptance criteria
• Manage customer stakeholders and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Project Engineering

• Operate with urgency. Understand cost and schedule constraints and how each one shapes technical execution
• Partner with Project Management on project financials, deliverables, and change orders
• Hold OEMs and vendors accountable to BlueSkye's design and quality standards
• Support commissioning, testing, and issue resolution through system acceptance

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work shoulder to shoulder with Sales, Project Management, Service, Operations, and OEM partners. This role sits at the center of those groups and only works if you're building trust across all of them
• Bring engineering discipline to the sales process without slowing it down, and bring commercial awareness to the engineering process
• Share what you learn. Feed lessons from installed systems back into how we design and quote the next one
• Step into gaps. On a growing team, the right answer is often "I've got it" rather than "that's not my scope"

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• A bachelor's degree in engineering with a mechanical or industrial background preferred.
• More than 5 years of experience is preferred.
• This position requires a self-motivated, well organized and employee with a high degree of maturity and sound business sense.

Preferred

• Direct experience with racking and static storage systems, conveyor, AS/RS, shuttle systems, AMRs, robotics, or palletizing
• Exposure to controls architecture: PLCs, sensors, safety systems, and how they tie into a mechanical design
• Familiarity with WMS/WCS/ERP integration and API-level data exchange between systems
• Travel 10%
• Located in Atlanta or Charlotte preferred

Computer Skills

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint)
• AutoCAD
• Solidworks

Workplace Requirements

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and/or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this Job, depending on site location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment. The employee may occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee may occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in some work environments is occasionally loud.

We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer

We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We're committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.