Jobs at Daifuku

Designs and enhances custom conveyor and automated material handling systems. Reviews designs, prepares AutoCAD drawings, coordinates technical development and testing, obtains vendor quotes, issues purchase orders, and monitors project schedules, engineering hours, and material costs. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams, customers, vendors, and installers to resolve issues and commission systems. Travel up to 20% is required for site measurements, equipment inventory, commissioning, and customer interaction.

Leads commercial ownership of customer opportunities from qualification through project completion and acceptance. Develops proposals, quotations, pricing analyses, forecasts, and contracts; leads negotiations; coordinates engineering, customer, factory, and global teams; manages budgets, schedules, scope, profitability, and risks; communicates project status; resolves issues; and maintains customer relationships and documentation. The role requires domestic and international travel up to 40%.

Responds to baggage-handling system faults and assists with clearing jams. Supports technicians with basic maintenance tasks such as cleaning, sweeping, and greasing. Follows safety procedures, completes required training, works nontraditional schedules, and operates across airport facilities. The role requires physical activity around moving machinery, noise, dust, temperature changes, and heights, along with maintaining an airport security badge and valid driver’s license.

Manages the overall business, financial, operational, administrative, safety, quality, and customer service activities of an airport site. Oversees budgets, financial reporting, contracts, personnel assignments, hiring, performance reviews, training, customer relationships, staff meetings, OSHA compliance, and quality standards. Represents the company with contract customers, maintains employee morale, and ensures site goals align with company strategy. Requires a flexible schedule and ability to work throughout airport property.

Processes multi-state domestic payroll across weekly, biweekly, and monthly cycles; reconciles timecards, payroll accounts, taxes, deductions, garnishments, W-2s, and general ledger entries. Prepares payroll filings and reports, supports accounting close, audits, SOX/JSOX compliance, and treasury wire transfers. Resolves discrepancies, maintains payroll records and systems, interprets regulations, and assists employees and management with payroll matters.

Designs and develops industrial automation control systems for material handling solutions. Responsibilities include creating control specifications, schematics, device layouts, PLC programs, and automated equipment sequences. Leads large projects and team members, coordinates schedules and costs, conducts prototype and on-site beta testing, and investigates field issues. Requires expertise in HMI, SCADA, Allen-Bradley and Schneider controls, electrical CAD systems, and industrial automation. Domestic travel may reach 40%.

Designs and documents electrical control systems for material handling projects, including device layouts, schematics, panel layouts, power distribution, network details, bills of material, and installation drawings. Coordinates materials and panel orders, supports fabrication and field installation, updates as-built drawings, and improves departmental automation tools and processes. Requires travel of up to 20%.

Manages software projects for warehouse controls and execution systems within material-handling automation implementations. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, customer communication, resource coordination, testing, commissioning, go-live support, and project closeout. The role oversees software deliverables across the SDLC, maintains portfolio and financial reports, coordinates internal teams and vendors, and supports customer acceptance. Travel up to 30% is required, including occasional evenings and weekends during go-live activities.

Pursue and manage sales opportunities for assigned integrator and partner accounts. Responsibilities include prospecting, developing sales strategies, leading account sales processes, coordinating with internal teams, supporting customer relationships, attending trade events, and traveling 30–40%. The role requires material-handling sales experience, knowledge of warehouse controls and mechanical systems, ability to interpret AutoCAD drawings, assess equipment reliability, solve customer requirements, and collaborate with technical and engineering teams.

Designs, delivers, and evaluates company-wide learning and development programs; administers LMS and performance management systems; maintains training records and calendars; supports employees and managers; coordinates external training vendors; and assists with recruiting, candidate screening, hiring paperwork, background checks, and HRIS updates.

Manage safety and health programs across active construction and installation sites. Conduct orientations, daily briefings, audits, inspections, training, industrial hygiene assessments, and incident investigations. Maintain safety records and certifications, develop emergency response and project safety plans, monitor employee and subcontractor practices, ensure OSHA, FRA, DOT, and contractual compliance, and provide safety guidance to project management and customers. The role requires travel, outdoor site work, lifting, ladder climbing, working at heights, and weekend or holiday availability.

Supports, troubleshoots, maintains, and enhances deployed warehouse automation software in customer environments. Develops patches and maintenance releases, diagnoses production issues, performs coding and testing, supports upgrades and migrations, monitors performance, documents solutions, collaborates with engineering and field teams, and provides occasional customer-site and after-hours support. Mentors junior engineers and contributes to reliable operation of mission-critical material handling systems.

Provides administrative support to plant leadership, HR, and supervisors. Maintains employee records, timekeeping, attendance, schedules, reports, invoices, credit card reconciliations, supplies, safety documentation, and plant maintenance coordination. Supports employee orientation, mail distribution, switchboard coverage, quality processes, and facility administration using UKG, ADP HRIS, and Microsoft Office.

Leads technical service operations at a customer site, troubleshooting complex equipment and system malfunctions, coordinating repairs, reducing downtime, and improving equipment reliability. Mentors and trains field service engineers, analyzes maintenance and downtime trends, leads continuous improvement initiatives, prepares reports and presentations, supports customer meetings, and coordinates technical issues and spare parts with corporate teams. Requires on-call, weekend, holiday, and emergency availability.

Responds to baggage handling system faults and assists with clearing jams. Supports technicians with basic maintenance, including sweeping, cleaning, and greasing. Completes required safety training, follows company safety procedures, and performs additional assigned duties. The role requires working weekends and holidays, operating in varied airport environments, using PPE, obtaining an airport security badge, and maintaining a valid driver’s license. Basic computer skills, English proficiency, and the ability to handle physical demands are required.

Manages operational support across a geographically dispersed distribution network of more than 50 sites and 800 employees. Responsibilities include leadership training, safety and regulatory compliance, performance monitoring, budget oversight, contractor management, employee coaching, project execution, and operational planning. The role requires advanced airport operations and maintenance knowledge, strong leadership and analytical skills, a valid driver’s license, background-check eligibility, and travel up to 75%.

Coordinates daily operations for one or more semiconductor fabrication sites, including personnel assignments, timecards, training, reports, customer communications, escalations, and improvement projects. Leads and mentors field service and engineering teams, identifies operational issues, supports corrective actions, and partners with the service manager. The role requires cleanroom work, customer-site presence, weekend and holiday availability, safety compliance, and up to 25% travel.

Supervises airport site maintenance operations, including scheduling mechanics and technicians, coordinating repairs, managing preventive maintenance, monitoring work orders and inventory, and ensuring safety and quality compliance. The role also performs technical maintenance as needed, resolves equipment issues, trains and evaluates employees, coordinates with airport and airline personnel, and supports budgeting, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement.

Maintains and repairs automated material handling systems through mechanical and basic electrical troubleshooting, preventive and predictive maintenance, inspections, documentation, and parts tracking. The role diagnoses equipment issues using technical drawings, follows OSHA and company safety standards, supports installations, and minimizes downtime and unsafe conditions. International travel to Canada and Mexico may be required.

Assembles and fabricates products using press brakes, fabrication tools, assembly drawings, and precision measuring equipment. Fits, aligns, calibrates, and troubleshoots components; performs material handling and quality inspections; identifies defective parts; and supports production quality processes. The role requires shop or manufacturing experience, the ability to read drawings, lift up to 50 pounds, and maintain performance and quality standards.