Automation Engineer - Intra-logistical

the LEGO Group • Richmond, VA

40d • Onsite

About The Position

Would you like to be responsible for the installation and oversight of an automated intra-logistical warehouse system for the new LEGO manufacturing site? The Automation Engineer - Intra-logistical will be responsible for managing the automated equipment in the Materials Warehouse area. This will include conveyors, elevators, shuttle cars, robots, palletizers, lidders, and supporting equipment. The Warehouse department is responsible for receiving, storing, and delivering to production all productive material needed in the site to fulfill customer orders as planned. The Automation Engineer will be responsible for overseeing the automated equipment in the Materials Warehouse area. Will be responsible for overseeing the programming of the equipment in the new manufacturing site.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in engineering or equivalent preferred.
• Proficient work experience in PLC programming.
• Working experience with intra-logistical systems, automatic retrieval systems, palletizers, rolling conveyors, lidders and/or palletizers.
• Proven experience with WMS.

Nice To Haves

• Prefer experience with Allen Bradley or Siemens.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the LEGO Production team meets the reliability requirements of the company and product quality through maintaining the automation of the equipment (preventative, predictive, corrective maintenance).
• Establish detail maintenance work instructions, user documentations, and trouble-shooting experience.
• Conduct analysis and investigations on equipment failures that significantly affect product quality, equipment uptime and packing capacity.
• Superuser for platforms like PLC programming, HMI, COMBI 2.0 ERP, SAP and WMS.
• Develop a standardized approach for robots, programming standards, safety protocols, operator interface, following standard and global implementations.
• Root Cause Analysis of errors to propose and implement corrective/preventive actions in the different Automated Warehouse operations.
• Lead the engineering and technical initiatives to solve the opportunities in safety, quality, delivery, cost areas.
• Generate Power BI reports aligned with capacity of the equipment.
• Perform and drive Risk and opportunity assessment of equipment.
• Be responsible for equipment life cycle.
• Mapping and standardization of the critical parameters of equipment.
• Continuous improvement of machinery and processes.
• Electronically standardize and update of software of machinery to align with supplier and operation needs.

Benefits

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level