Senior Engineer – Mechatronics Engineering

About Convatec

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in Advanced Wound Care, Ostomy Care, Continence Care, and Infusion Care. With more than 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in around 90 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec’s revenues in 2024 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com

 

About the role:
The purpose of this description is to keep in standard conditions the equipment’s that depend on a programmable system (PLC’s mainly and HMI's) when changes are needed or requested. Responsible to elaborate the audit reports for the equipment’s or machines used in production. Support the different corrective or preventative activities done in Maintenance department.

 

Your key duties and responsibilities:

• Keep in standard conditions the equipment that depend on a programmable system, in complying with the procedures (document 4A05000).
• Complying with the legal requirements of software’s usages and or licenses owner used in manufacturing equipment’s and critical systems.
• Participate with continues updating of the yearly maintenance plan.
• Collaborate with updating the spare parts list and available materials of the equipment’s with control systems.
• Responsible to generate the audit reports for production equipment’s.
• Update the procedures and policies related with control and automation processes.
• Support emergent issues (correctives) in the execution of work orders to satisfy requirements, assigning task, resources, and spares to complete the work orders related with automation and control aspects.
• Participate in groups of work related to automation process with colleagues of other operational units if is required.
• Changes on Machinery under warranty will be handling through manufacturer and those updates should be required to be documented in the procedures.
• Comply with the regulations of PLC and HMI programs of validated and not validated machinery.
• Make sure that all Test and Measurement equipment have been calibrated by QC.
• Process control specifications are followed, and process control is properly recorded.
• Responsible to fix any problem related to the programs in the equipment and installations and contact with Denmark’s team or machinery manufactures if is required.
• Investigate and fix malfunctions of equipment and systems.
• To make sure that production requirements are met.
• Comply with those applicable requirements of the ISO 13485 & FDA GMP Standards.
• Responsible for training and registers the training to new technicians and engineers, should record that training.
• Responsible to train and document the training of the operators in the safety handling of the equipment.
• Meet with Company and Government Safety regulations.
• Responsible of doing continuous improvements activities on the current machinery and new ones.
• Keep PLC programs updated when improvements are done.
• Keep HMI programs updated if an improvement is done.
• Monitor the OEE to know if a problem needs to be fixed or an improvement.
• Support on the scrap reduction caused by machinery issues.
• Collaborate on the data analysis of down time as much as its solutions.
• Analyse repetitive failures on machinery and make changes if are required.
• Complete projects assigned.
• Training personnel when projects are in the technical phase.
• Optimize cycle time on machines according to demands and if it is possible.
• Evaluate the down time data of machinery to take correctives/ preventives actions.
• Participating on the repetitive fails analysis of the machinery and collaborates on its solutions.
• Working within the quality criteria whiles changes are made.
• Create or update documentation in the handbook system if are required for changes in machinery.

Skills & Experience:

• 2-3 years of experience on maintenance of manufacturing equipment’s and/or integration of industrial automated equipment’s.
• Programming media and high level (ladder diagrams, mechanic, pneumatic and control electric integration).
• Instrumentation, AutoCAD, MS project, and Microsoft Office.
• Micro controller handling, PLC’s (Omron Cx-One and RS-Logix 5000).
• HMI programming (Cx Designer and Factory Talk).
• Skills to document the control of changes on manufacturing equipment’s.
• Abilities to program Servo drives.
• English: spoken and written.
• Knowledge of basic requirements of FDA QSR's GMP's and ISO 13485 or similar regulations, preferred.
• Analyse and problems solving of equipment required.

Qualifications/Education:

• Engineering degree.
• Induction to ISO 14001:2015. Induction on Environmental Legal Requirements, Training on Applicable Environmental Management System Documents, Disaster Care and Response, Applicable Operational Controls, Determination of Applicable Significant Environmental Aspects, and Impacts, EHS Policy and Environmental Objectives.

Travel Requirements:

• Position may involve occasional travel requirements.

Working Conditions:

• Site based at Reynosa Manufacturing Plant.

 

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