Automation Engineer - Intra-logistical

the LEGO Group • Richmond, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Automation Engineer - Intra-logistical will be responsible for managing the automated equipment in the Materials Warehouse area at the new LEGO manufacturing site. This includes conveyors, elevators, shuttle cars, robots, palletizers, lidders, and supporting equipment. The role ensures the LEGO Production team meets reliability requirements and product quality by maintaining automation equipment through preventative, predictive, and corrective maintenance. The engineer will also establish detailed maintenance work instructions, user documentation, and troubleshooting experience, and conduct analysis on equipment failures. They will act as a superuser for platforms like PLC programming, HMI, COMBI 2.0 ERP, SAP, and WMS, and develop standardized approaches for robots, programming, safety, and operator interfaces. The position involves leading technical initiatives to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost, generating Power BI reports, performing risk assessments, managing equipment life cycle, and continuously improving machinery and processes. The role also requires electronically standardizing and updating machinery software to align with supplier and operation needs. The Warehouse department is responsible for receiving, storing, and delivering all productive material to production.

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.
• Global travel - This position will train at our site in Mexico for 2 weeks upon hire and then 2 weeks before the new manufacturing site starts production.
• This position will work onsite 5 days a week.

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.
• Overseeing the automated equipment in the Materials Warehouse area.
• Overseeing the programming of the equipment in the new manufacturing site.

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
• Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office.
• taking part in our annual Play Day
• playing a part in building a sustainable future
• continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees