Automation Engineer

Job description

Educational Requirements

-Technical education.

-English read, written, spoken

Desired Knowledge / Experience

-General understanding of welding timers and guns is desirable.

-Hand on experience for Programming and Maintenance of various type of robotics application like welding, preferrable Kuka and NC Controller

-Knowledge of welding parameters for MiG/MaG welding

-Knowledge of PLCs, like Siemens Step 7, S1200...etc

-Knowledge of simulation softwares, like RobCAD, Process Simulate

-Familiarity with basics of global Industrial Robot standards and specification.

-Working knowledge in Quality, EHS standards and Ergonomics.

-Knowledge of CAD and PLM tools (CATIA, DELMIA)

Behavioural Competencies

-Conscientious. Commits and delivers.

-Team Player.

-Able to perform the tasks independently

-Decisive. Obtains and uses necessary information to make decisions. Refers decision to others when appropriate

-Self-Motivation.

-Logical and organized

-Good communication.

-Key Responsibilities:

-Make adjustments on existing robot weld programs

-Program spot welding / MiG welding robot on various systems to ensure optimal production output

-Review and improve robotic process and sequence to improve cycle times

-Provide daily production support for robotic weld cells

-Conduct troubleshooting and repairs on PLC controlled systems and programs

-Check completed parts to ensure compliance with required weld quality acceptance criteria

-Modify existing robot programs to improve robot reliability, maintainability,& performance

-Conduct root cause analysis for all robot downtimes

-Work with equipment OEM to improve robotic cells and address operational issues

-Continuous improvement of robotic stations efficiencies

-Leading co-engineering phase during design development

-Conduct trainings for Operators

-Lead the SAT and FAT validation for Robotic Cells

-Strong co-ordination with consultant team for design review, schedule monitoring, detail planning activity

-Productivity Improvement intiatives

-Manage all documents control, special process, flow charts. Prepare & maintain assembly instructions for production area

-Participating to the development of the tooling strategy including the evaluation of re-use of existing tooling

-Collision detection Test for the first serial production

-Prepare SOP for robot programming & maintenance

-ONLINE programming : Robot sequence validation, welding spot validation, cycle time validation using RobCAD/Process Simulate softwares

-Installation, verification of welding robots bringing the system to stage ready for production.

-Breakdown analysis, Root cause of Corrective Maintenance and Preventive Maintenance, Elimination of the problems, MTTR, MTBF, Utility cost controlling, maintenance cost controlling

-Leading Digitalization drive for complete site

-Implementation of Low Cost Automations

-Other activities:

-Bring his expertise to the industrial Costing Manager during tender phase

-Participates to R&D programs as industrial representative.

• -Perform industrial REX on manufacturing processes.