# Automation and Process Engineer II

What Success Looks Like (Objectives): Scaling manufacturing operations requires relentless focus on operational excellence (OPEX); eliminating waste, reducing downtime, standardizing work, and driving continuous improvement across production lines. This role sits at the intersection of process engineering, controls, and Lean manufacturing, partnering with operations and maintenance teams to optimize how work flows, how equipment performs, and how costs are controlled. You'll bring strong industrial/process engineering fundamentals and a continuous-improvement mindset; we'll invest in developing your controls and automation depth (including PLC programming) over time. What Success Looks Like (Objectives) Analyze, standardize, and optimize manual and automated manufacturing processes to improve cycle times, quality, and throughput while reducing downtime and cost Drive OPEX initiatives using Lean manufacturing tools - value stream mapping, 5S, Kaizen, root-cause analysis, and waste elimination - to deliver measurable operational improvements Develop and maintain standardized process documentation, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Sequences of Events (SOEs), and part

- **Id**: 4244591
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/echostar-automation-and-process-engineer-ii>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Denver, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T18:59:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T12:29:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 14262
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Internet Service Providers

## Company

- **Id**: 1846584
- **Name**: EchoStar
- **Domain**: echostar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/echostar>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Jibe

## Salary

- **Min**: 85000
- **Max**: 103400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 103400

## Technologies

- **AutoCAD** — Optional: yes
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:18:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 58
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.769
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 10
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:late, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T13:05:51Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 103400
- **Is top pay**: no

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