46 Robotics jobs in South Africa

We are looking for a talented Robotics Engineer to join our team, responsible for designing, developing, and deploying robotics and automation solutions that drive business growth and innovation. The successful candidate will have a strong background in robotics, mechatronics, and software engineering, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality robotics and automation solutions. The Robotics Engineer will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and operations, to identify opportunities for robotics-driven innovation and develop strategic plans to execute on these opportunities.

• Design, develop, and deploy robotics and automation solutions that drive business growth and innovation
• Collaborate with engineers to develop and implement robotics and automation systems, including mechanical, electrical, and software components
• Work with product managers to develop product roadmaps and prioritize features and requirements
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including business leaders, product managers, and engineering teams
• Communicate complex robotics and automation concepts and results to non-technical stakeholders, including business leaders and product managers
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in robotics, mechatronics, and AI, applying this knowledge to drive innovation and improvement in robotics and automation solutions
• Develop and maintain large-scale robotics and automation systems, including robotic arms, autonomous vehicles, and computer vision systems
• Optimize robotics and automation systems for performance, reliability, and safety

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in robotics, mechatronics, or software engineering, with a focus on robotics and automation solution development and deployment
• Strong background in robotics, mechatronics, and software engineering, with expertise in areas such as robotic arms, autonomous vehicles, or computer vision
• Experience with robotics frameworks and tools, such as ROS, OpenCV, or PyRobot
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, C++, or Java
• Experience with cloud-based technologies, such as AWS or Google Cloud
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, including design patterns, testing, and version control
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams

Technical Skills:

• Cloud-based technologies: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc.

Full time

Johannesburg

• To maintain a high standard in the introduction of new robots to production.
• Provide Robotic support to manufacturing.
• Develop new grippers and automation for plastic products, utilising new/current technology to enable local/ international competition in line with business plan.
• Ensure high quality and standards of Grippers, Process and Control thereof.
• Facilitate jigs and fixtures design and fabrication specific to robotic processes.
• Optimise injection moulding robotic settings.
• Develop work instructions and Robotic Control Sheets.
• Conduct tool try with robotics.
• Conduct robot training and handover for shop floor personnel.
• Closing and tracking of Robotic related Corrective Actions and G8D's.
• Ensure adherence to project and timing plans in the line with the Projects development timing programs
• Meet Performance in accordance with project and quality timing plans.
• Ensure that robotics comply with process and industrial engineering requirements.
• Ensure that the safety requirements for the robotics and systems are complied with.
• To manage project implementation and industrialization of new products and technologies.
• To ensure the safety of all people interacting with the automated production facilities and processes.
• The effective implementation of Automation for new products from Sourcing, Costing and Product
• implementation.
• Liaise with departments to obtain time-outs technical information to implement changes/projects within the timeline.
• Assess current Robotic components and processes in view of design improvements, process optimisation and cost reduction.
• To ensure that all ancillary equipment associated with the robot is maintained and operates reliably and within the required cycle time and process parameters
• Ensure that Quality, Safety, Health and Environment requirements are met at all stages of robot planning and installation.
• Ongoing process optimisation and improvements.
• Continuous improvement in all aspects of the Robotics, Process and Industrial Engineering activities or where support is needed

• Technical N5/N6 qualification or instrument technician.
• Advantageous: mechatronics qualifications
• Minimum of 3 years related experience in Robotics Programming or similar

JOB TITLE : Adjunct Faculty - Robotics Engineering

LOCATION : Worcester

DEPARTMENT NAME : Engineering Operations-JM

DIVISION NAME : Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY : Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is seeking part-time adjunct faculty to teach day and/or evening classes for the Robotics Engineering Department. These faculty positions are created to provide an available applicant pool for the Department. Positions will be filled on an as-needed basis. Start dates will vary by course and semester.

Qualified applicants will be contacted by the program. Your application will remain in the pool until the posting closes. If you wish to be considered for positions beyond that date, then you must reapply.

JOB DESCRIPTION : There is a potential need for both undergraduate and graduate courses. The goal is to integrate a successful applicant into related activities at WPI with teaching assignments matched with the background and availability of the applicant.

An ideal applicant will hold an advanced degree in robotics or a related discipline with significant practical experience in the relevant area, as well as having successful undergraduate or graduate teaching experience.

FLSA STATUS : United States of America (Exempt)

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION : WPI is an Equal Opportunity Employer that actively seeks to increase the diversity of its workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability. It seeks individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences who will contribute to a culture of creativity, collaboration, inclusion, problem solving, innovation, high performance, and change making. It is committed to maintaining a campus environment free of harassment and discrimination.

At Smith+Nephew, we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.

We believe that through innovation, development, and supporting our customers and patients, we can help others achieve a Life Unlimited! Our products are available in 100 countries worldwide, and supporting this global presence requires a significant effort.

What will you be doing?

The role is part of the Reconstruction Division and is responsible for the successful launch, promotion, and sales of a specific product range to Orthopaedic Surgeons. Continuing education on the correct application and usage of these products within the allocated sales territory is essential. This position reports to the Regional Sales Manager responsible for the territory.

What will you need to be successful?

• Achieve and exceed targeted sales goals.
• Develop and maintain a regular calling pattern and report accordingly.
• Ensure all customers are fully informed about the product range.
• Attend regular ward rounds to provide technical advice.
• Monitor competitive activities.

Successful candidates would need the following:

• A degree in Health Sciences.
• At least three years of experience in medical device sales.
• Three years’ experience in Arthroplasty.
• Experience with theatre procedures and revisions.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Own vehicle.

You. Unlimited.

With 165 years of pioneering innovation, we focus on what’s next. We are committed to you. You are what’s next.

• Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity: Committed to welcoming, celebrating, and thriving on diversity. Learn more about our Employee Inclusion Groups on our website.
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible vacation and time off, paid holidays, and volunteering hours to give back to our communities.
• Your Wellbeing: Medical aid, employee wellness programs, and more.
• Flexibility: Hybrid working model (for most professional roles).

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Immediate Superior: AMEE Regional Technology Lead

Location: Johannesburg or Cape Town

Function: Digital & Technology

Sub Function: Digital & Technology - Operations

Type of Contract: Permanent

Reference Number: 133458

Closing Date: 12/08/2025

This role is part of the Global D&T department of HEINEKEN International and Specifically the AME Regional team , D&T is proud to bring cutting-edge innovation, strong technology, and advanced analytics to HEINEKEN. With speed and agility, we ensure HEINEKEN has the technological competitive advantages it needs to deliver on its ambition.

You will be part of the AME HyperAutomation Hub team (AHH) , which is one of the regional hubs within the Technology stream. AHH is a fusion team focusing on embedding technology into business by identifying & implementing automation opportunities across HEINEKEN AME Operating companies, aligned with the governance and platforms offered by Global Smart Technologies team, which consists of different product teams specialized in RPA (MS Power Automate, UiPath), Low Code solutions (MS Power Platform, OutSystems), Cognitive AI.

As Senior developer R&A you have a primary task to develop, support, and implement different automation projects following global governance, you should have good experience in the application of standard software development principles. In addition, as an expert you would be supporting business stakeholders with automation identification, contribute in preparing, designing and refining the requirements to maximize value out of potential automation use case You will be working with our HEINEKEN business teams within our OpCos and Global products teams. As part of the team, you will also support hub team with internal projects like driving Proof of Value’s and process optimizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, support, and implement new or existing applications using primarily Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, Dataverse in compliance with HEINEKEN standards and guidelines.
• Ensuring optimum performance, availability, and security of solutions are in accordance with security standards and policies, having governance and control adhered in all stages.
• Liaise with business SMEs to be a point of contact for automation technical expertise, this can include contributing to:
• Awareness workshops
• Ideation
• Deep-dives
• Training
• Translating functional requirements of potential automations into technical designs and creating technical documentation.
• Integrate automation solutions with other global solutions and the HEINEKEN data lake.
• Deliver product enhancements with the allocated timescale and quality standards that minimize rework and aspire a zero-defect culture.
• Pro-actively exploring new technologies, products and features that can be combined with current toolkit.
• Contribute to Proof of Value’s and other internal team projects.
• Actively participating in all the team agile ceremonies: daily scrum meeting, sprint planning, refinement, and retrospective
  

• You have Bachelor/Master’s degree, preferably in Business Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering.
• You have Power Platform certifications (PL200/300/400/500/600/ or 900) , OutSystems or other automation technologies.
• UiPath certification and experience will be advantageous.
• Hands-on developing experience working on Power Platform projects for at least 3-5 years.
• Successful record of automation projects implementation
• Interpret and design database models (SharePoint, Microsoft Dataverse, and SQL)
• Ability to combine different technologies in a single solution.
• Project Management skills, experience in leading independently automation projects.
• Supporting and coaching junior team developers
• Contribution into workshops facilitation and presentations
• Experience with supporting Team Leader, team coordination, workload management
• You take ownership of projects to ensure success.
• You can argue convincingly and make appropriate recommendations regarding the most suitable technology for business process / problem.
• You are analytical, structured and have great quantitative skills.
• You have excellent communication skills (both verbal and in written)
• You have the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical people.
• You are a great team player, and you can work effectively at all levels of the product team with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
• You can identify and understand multiple stakeholder perspectives and bring an open mind to understanding and build on the views of others.
• You have a can-do and hands-on attitude while dealing with some uncertainty in requirements & features to deliver MVP solutions.
• You are able to work in a high-pressure, dynamic and deadline driven environment with rapid release cycles.
• You have experience with working in an Agile environment.
• Preferably you have experience with working with additional technologies like OCR, IDP and/or Process Mining
  
  

• Familiar with Azure DevOps
• Experience with the Python programming language
• Experience with scripting programming languages
  
  

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• Develop, support, and implement new or existing applications using primarily Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, Dataverse in compliance with HEINEKEN standards and guidelines.
• Ensuring optimum performance, availability, and security of solutions are in accordance with security standards and policies, having governance and control adhered in all stages.
• Liaise with business SMEs to be a point of contact for automation technical expertise, this can include contributing to:
  • Awareness workshops
  • Ideation
  • Deep-dives
  • Training
• Translating functional requirements of potential automations into technical designs and creating technical documentation.
• Integrate automation solutions with other global solutions and the HEINEKEN data lake.
• Deliver product enhancements with the allocated timescale and quality standards that minimize rework and aspire a zero-defect culture.
• Pro-actively exploring new technologies, products and features that can be combined with current toolkit.
• Contribute to Proof of Value’s and other internal team projects.
• Actively participating in all the team agile ceremonies: daily scrum meeting, sprint planning, refinement, and retrospective

• You have Bachelor/Master’s degree, preferably in Business Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering.
• You have Power Platform certifications (PL200/300/400/500/600/ or 900) , OutSystems or other automation technologies.
• UiPath certification and experience will be advantageous.
• Hands-on developing experience working on Power Platform projects for at least 3-5 years.
• Successful record of automation projects implementation
• Interpret and design database models (SharePoint, Microsoft Dataverse, and SQL)
• Ability to combine different technologies in a single solution.
• Project Management skills, experience in leading independently automation projects.
• Supporting and coaching junior team developers
• Contribution into workshops facilitation and presentations
• Experience with supporting Team Leader, team coordination, workload management
• You take ownership of projects to ensure success.
• You can argue convincingly and make appropriate recommendations regarding the most suitable technology for business process / problem.
• You are analytical, structured and have great quantitative skills.
• You have excellent communication skills (both verbal and in written)
• You have the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical people.
• You are a great team player, and you can work effectively at all levels of the product team with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
• You can identify and understand multiple stakeholder perspectives and bring an open mind to understanding and build on the views of others.
• You have a can-do and hands-on attitude while dealing with some uncertainty in requirements & features to deliver MVP solutions.
• You are able to work in a high-pressure, dynamic and deadline driven environment with rapid release cycles.
• You have experience with working in an Agile environment.
• Preferably you have experience with working with additional technologies like OCR, IDP and/or Process Mining

• Familiar with Azure DevOps

• Experience with the Python programming language

• Experience with scripting programming languages

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply. Heineken Beverages (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd) is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values inclusion and diversity.You must be fully eligible to live and work in South Africa to apply.

Broadacres Academy High School, situated in Chartwell, offers education to Grade 7 – 12 students, under the auspices of the IEB. We are looking for a CAT and CODING AND ROBOTICS Educator to join our dynamic and innovative team.

Broadacres Academy has a Constructivist Learning approach at its foundation, encouraging a love of learning in students. The High School aims to prepare students for the world of work by allowing students to thrive in all aspects of a modern educational space.

Applicants should therefore have high energy and commitment. Applicants should be student centered and particularly experienced in dealing with young people from Grades 7 to 12. Applicants should have excellent interpersonal skills and be willing to work within a team creating and sharing knowledge. Please view additional requirements below.

SPECIFIC AREAS OF FOCUS:CAT, CODING AND ROBOTICS AND JUNIOR MATHEMATICS

CONTRACT TYPE: PERMANENT

STARTING DATE: JANUARY 2026

THE SUITABLE CANDIDATE WILL HAVE AS A MINIMUM:

• a recognized degree and/or a 4-year professional teaching qualification
• 3- 5 years’ experience and training in working with the Senior and FET phases
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in the IEB curriculum and SAGS
• full SACE registration
• suitable prior experience in the specific subject field (preferably to Grade 12 level)
• knowledge in creating varied and innovative assessments, particularly under the auspices of the IEB
• working knowledge of Constructivist practice
• the ability to think out-of-the-box and a flexible and adaptable teaching style

THE SUITABLE CANDIDATE WILL HAVE PREFERABLY:

• experience as an IEB marker, moderator and/or assessor
• knowledge or passion for integrating the specific subject field in an interdisciplinary Constructivist approach.
• knowledge in integrating ICT skills within the classroom and collaborative spaces
• ability and passion for co-curricular involvement in sport, cultural or administrative areas

Broadacres Academy High School is committed to the Constitution of South Africa and will therefore give preference, but not limited, to candidates from designated groups.

POPI disclaimer: By applying for this position and submitting your personal details, you acknowledge this disclaimer. Broadacres Academy will use all reasonable measures to protect this information and will not share it beyond the scope of the application for employment.

Only suitable qualified candidates will be considered. An application does not entitle an applicant to an interview. Management reserves the right not to make an appointment.

• Participate in stakeholder meetings and work with senior colleagues to analyse business problems, clarify requirements and define the scope of the resolution needed.
• Collaborate within a cross-functional team of Data Scientists, Engineers and Analysts in order to understand project goals, and build, implement and scale-up algorithms for measurable impact.
• Display basic understanding of ANN's, CNN's, RNN's, autoencoders, fundamental data science concepts (linear and logistic regression, SVM's, dimensionality reduction), decision trees, gradient boosting, ensemble models, etc. to develop machine learning models.
• Work with above architectures within deep learning frameworks such as Keras and TensorFlow.
• Demonstrate foundational understanding of relevant applications and/or systems (including, but not limited to, the machine learning algorithms) being created.
• Build basic algorithms based on statistical modelling procedures and build and maintain machine learning solutions in production.
• Use data modelling and evaluation strategy to find patterns and predict unseen instances.
• Train models on large-scale data and fine tune hyper-parameters.
• Research appropriate machine learning algorithms and tools and work with senior colleagues to select the correct libraries, programming languages and frameworks for each task.
• Apply understanding of theoretical frameworks in computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, computability, complexity and computer architecture.
• Keep abreast of technological developments in the field, and integrate the latest data technologies into existing requirements.
• Follow best practices and standards of machine learning operations (MLOps) workflows for data preparation, deployment, monitoring and retraining to enable agile application methods to projects, and support machine learning models and data sets within a CI/CD process.
  
  

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or a related field – (essential).
• +2 years’ experience as a Data Scientist or ML Engineer (preferred) working with machine learning frameworks, models, or systems with strong mathematical and statistical experience skills - (essential).
• Exposure to common machine learning, data, math and visualisation libraries (i.e. Pandas, pyTorch, SciPy, NumPy, Scikit-Learn etc.) - (essential).
• Exposure to developing Machine Learning & NLP solutions over opensource platforms such as (TensorFlow, SparkML, OpenCV, pyTorch, etc.) - (essential).
• Exposure to different coding environments (local, notebooks, containers) and software engineering workflows (testing, code management/Git) - (essential).
• Proficiency in MS Office 365 with well-developed Excel skills – (essential).
• Understanding of relational databases as SQL, MySQL, etc. - (essential)
• Familiarity with a cloud environment (at least one of the following - AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerised environment (Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker) and CI/CD (Jenkins, AWS Code Pipelines) - (desirable)
• Experience in a retail, commercial or IT environment – (desirable).