Automation Engineer 2 - (AA)

PD Production Equipment Maintenance III

Responsibilities:

• Supervision of PD Production Equipment Maintenance personnel.
• To meet and enforce policies, standards, procedures, and regulations of the company.
• To develop projects focusing on continuous improvement, cost reduction, and quality improvements.
• To manage projects, on time and form, committed to official documents.
• To identify opportunity areas for automation processes.
• To develop PLCs and HMIs programs as necessary according with department’s requirements, using PLCs brands in the company, and keep programs’ review traceability.
• To keep control of PLCs programs database (updated and with revision traceability).
• To perform HMI upgrade (updated and with revision traceability).
• To measure, monitor, and improve the OEE and OSE metrics of automated equipment used in PD area.
• To develop automated equipment in accordance with production demand following quality criteria, using URS as guidance for equipment development.
• To develop prototypes by researching new technologies, materials, designing and being responsible for the development, test, and inspection criteria.
• To coordinate equipment development with external suppliers, to provide necessary information for projects follow up: drawings of components related to the project, material handling and shipping, equipment assessment, equipment transportation and installation.
• During equipment development, they shall consider whether it is necessary or required to use a network communication system to optimize machine’s wiring.
• During URS development they must be able to identify minimal required devices (PLC, Expansion modules, networks, HMI, etc.) for machine’s construction according with its complexity.
• To develop and upgrade vision system (Cognex, Omron, and Keyence) programs and keep traceability of programs revision.
• To design fixtures or mechanical parts for assembly processes or assembly equipment using Solid Works program or AutoCAD.
• To manage computer aided design programs, to maintain and update equipment drawings, pieces, and devices.
• To perform root cause investigations to solve quality problems where automated equipment is involved.
• Responsible for supporting the investigation of customer complaints, NCs and CAPAs related with the machines’ quality or performance, focusing on root cause solutions.
• Shall participate in validation process of new assembly equipment or validation of machines’ upgrades.
• Responsible for maintaining validated state of automated equipment.
• To develop engineering studies related with quality, capability, and performance of automated equipment.
• To document each project development, gather, and keep all information generated since the beginning of project.
• To write, review, and perform the operation and maintenance procedures of equipment and machinery related with product assembly.
• To perform preventive or corrective maintenance of automated equipment.
• To keep spare parts list updated.
• To calculate maximum and minimum for spare parts.
• To provide training for all personal involved in operation and maintenance of automated equipment.
• To support and train technical personnel that performs maintenance of assembly equipment.
• To ensure all corrective and preventive maintenance records are documented immediately when activity takes place.

Qualifications:

• Engineering bachelor’s degree (Graduated in Mechanics, electronics or automation).
• Bilingual English / Spanish.
• Medical products manufacturing.
• Projects management.
• Knowledge of electricity.
• Knowledge of electronics (motor drivers’ control, Servo motors, Robot Cylinders, robots’ Communication network -Device net, Profibus DP, Control Net-).
• Knowledge of vision system programing (Cognex, Keyence, and Omron).
• Knowledge of Pneumatics (e.g. Fluid Sim, Intelligent Network Control Valve).
• Knowledge of measurement equipment (e.g. Multimeter, Chatillon, Instron).
• Knowledge of tools and machinery (Machine Shop).
• Computer knowledge (e.g. Microsoft Office programs: Project C, Visio).
• Knowledge of statistics and Minitab software.
• High level knowledge in equipment controlled by PLC (e.g. counters, timers, Flip Flop, math comparator, logics operations, data acquisition) following a structured schedule and defining safety as priority.
• Mechanical design (Solid Works and AutoCAD).