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Industrial Ethernet Network Engineer

KION


Job Location:

Grand Rapids, MI - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 90750 - 133100
Posted: 30 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 5 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
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Job Summary

The Industrial Ethernet Network Engineer is a recognized leader in the field of Industrial Ethernet network systems for material handling. This role is responsible for developing and implementing innovative solutions setting/standardizing technical direction for the company and providing thought leadership and network design education both internally and externally.

We offer:
  • Career Development

  • Competitive Compensation and Benefits

  • Pay Transparency

  • Global Opportunities

Learn More Here: provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $90750 - $133100 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location education experience knowledge and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications:

What You Will Do In This Role:

  • Maintain North American Networking Standard Work.

  • Maintain Ethernet training program including Hirschmann CT1 CT2 CP1 and CP2 classes.

  • Develop and maintain Industrial Ethernet and fieldbus networking standards.

  • Lead cross-functional Industrial Ethernet networking team to align Dematic groups.

  • Facilitate network technical reviews.

  • Provide network design assistance to project teams.

  • Provide network design reviews and validation.

  • Provide network troubleshooting assistance to project teams.

  • Conduit to Global Networking Architecture.

  • Network design that incorporates cybersecurity.

Team Responsibilities:

  • Provide a high level of expertise to projects Technical support problem resolution leadership and technical integration

  • Technical training to team members within the project engineering teams

  • Provide expertise on system level drawings to ensure the engineering team is fulfilling all technical Standard and regulatory requirements

  • Work cross-functionally across disciplines and functions/departments

  • Promote a culture of safety and compliance through open communication and empowerment

  • Identify opportunities and ideas to improve cost and efficiency.

  • Assess appropriate disciplines and skillsets of resources to successfully deliver engineering content and documentation

  • Travel up to 25% to project sites customer meetings support pre-sales activities suppliers.

What We are Looking for:

  • Excellent communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills.

  • Strong leadership with ability to delegate tasks.

  • Strong problem-solving skills.

  • Excellent interpersonal skills.

  • Proficient customer-facing skills.

  • Bachelors degree in Engineering(Network Engineering preferred).

  • 5 years of successful experience as an Industrial Ethernet Network Engineer or related field.

  • Experience with various industrial protocols including EtherNet/IP (EIP) CIP Safety SafeLink PROFINET and PROFIsafe.

  • Knowledge of Modbus TCP and EtherCAT is an asset.

  • Experience designing commissioning troubleshooting and maintaining Industrial Ethernet networks.

  • Proficient in advanced network design including NAT VLANs firewalls subnetting routing switching monitoring and firewall technologies.

  • Hirschmann Industrial Network Professional Cisco CCNA Industrial Siemens Profinet Certified Engineer or equivalent credentials.

  • TUV Rheinland Functional Safety of Machinery Engineer Certification or equivalent credentials is an asset.

  • Experience with both Allen-Bradley PLCs and Siemens TIA Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) is an asset.

  • Experience in Material Handling/automation industry is an asset.

  • Experience in an engineering position that is project-based is an asset.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa now or in the future.

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We are a leading supplier of forklifts and warehouse equipment as well as automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains.

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