Job Details:
Automation Engineer – Controls Engineer
- Improving products, processes, and components to meet agreed-upon objectives
- Redesigning products or components to meet cost objectives, component technology obsolescence, and customer requirements
- Participating actively in new product introduction, including influencing the design of the product to ensure manufacturability and conformance with the global supply chain, enabling prototyping while in the R&D lab, testing the reliability of prototypes, and handling the transition into production
- Process analysis: the ability to understand manufacturing processes and to schematize the production steps key factors, highlighting where digitalization and automation might bring benefits
- MES expertise: knowledge of what a manufacturing execution system does, and how it provides a toolbox of features (product execution, quality control, traceability, line side inventory management, maintenance etc.)
- ERP expertise: experience with ERP systems (SAP ECC) and basic concepts like Bill Of Materials, production Routings, planned and production orders, material master data
- PLC/shopfloor control expertise: knowledge of PLC programming logic, machine integration logics, communication protocols (OPC UA) between tooling machine and software
- Requirement gathering ability to translate the business requirements into well-defined specifications to be discussed with external providers and IT teams
- Software skills: coding (JavaScript, Java, C#), database management (SQL, Oracle), basic interface management (webservices), basic XML, and JSON.
- Project Management: the ability to schedule activities and planning resources to meet target timelines and stay budget,
- Shop Floor support: implement control systems to provide technical assistance and solve issues with the operators
- Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma: knowledge of the optimization methods to reduce wastes and increase efficiency on the shopfloor
- Bachelors, Masters, or other University Degree in a relevant subject area
Rob McCabe / Liberty Personnel Services / 484-238-1965 / www.libertyjobs.com
Please send resume to rob@libertyjobs.com
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