Machine Vision Engineer (Menasha, WI)

Machine Vision Engineer

Location: Onsite in Green Bay, WI or Menasha, WI

Travel: Approximately 25% domestic travel

Our client is expanding its technical capabilities and seeking a skilled professional to support the advancement of quality, automation, and process improvement initiatives across a growing operational footprint. This role offers the chance to lead strategic technology initiatives that enhance operational performance, support continuous improvement efforts, and drive greater consistency across multiple locations. The right person will join a highly collaborative engineering environment with strong leadership support, broad exposure to controls, robotics, and systems integration, and clear room to grow beyond a narrow specialty.

This Role Offers

• Competitive base compensation with flexibility for the right level of experience.
• Ability to make a meaningful impact on enterprise-wide improvement efforts, supporting the adoption and expansion of innovative technologies across multiple locations.
• A visible role with hands on project ownership from concept through startup.
• Strong cross functional exposure to automation, controls, robotics, and plant operations.
• Leadership that values curiosity, ownership, coachability, and continuous learning.
• A streamlined interview process and a team environment built around collaboration and professional development.

Focus

• Develop and enhance automated inspection capabilities that support product quality, process consistency, and operational performance across manufacturing environments.
• Translate manufacturing quality goals into practical camera, lighting, optics, and image acquisition strategies that perform reliably in real world production settings.
• Partner with controls, robotics, maintenance, operations, and outside vendors to take inspection concepts from pilot through startup and long-term support.
• Create repeatable standards for validation, recipe management, data handling, backup practices, and system recovery so solutions can be expanded across sites.
• Support design reviews, factory and site acceptance activities, commissioning efforts, and post launch troubleshooting for vision enabled automation projects.
• Help identify the next best inspection opportunities by balancing technical feasibility, plant impact, risk, and return on investment.
• Contribute to project execution through coordination of timelines, technical decisions, stakeholder communication, and issue resolution.
• Contribute to team development by sharing expertise, supporting collaboration, and helping strengthen technical capabilities across key operational disciplines.

Skill Set

• Formal education in a technical field with a focus on engineering, industrial technologies, production systems, or related areas.
• Several years of experience supporting advanced manufacturing, automation, or other technically complex operational environments.
• Strong foundation in optics, lighting, cameras, lenses, resolution, defect detection, and inspection methodology.
• Experience working in technical, industrial, or operational environments that leverage advanced systems, automation, or process-driven technologies.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Familiarity with industrial automation or advanced manufacturing technologies is beneficial; however, a strong technical foundation and willingness to learn are highly valued.
• Exposure to startup support, validation activities, statistical analysis, or continuous improvement tools is valued.
• A motivated, team oriented, growth minded approach with a strong desire to learn and take ownership.

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