Automation Engineering Manager

Alliance Laundry System • Ripon, WI

99d

About The Position

The Automation Engineering Leader will be responsible for leading and developing the automation team within Alliance Laundry System LLC. This will involve both onsite development and implementation as well as program management of vendor provided solutions. Resolution of day-to-day reliability activities can escalate to this team but they are not the first line responders.

Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering/Mechanical/Manufacturing or equivalent technical degree with relevant experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of project teams.
• First-hand experience delivering electrical, controls and automation capital projects within a manufacturing and assembly environment.
• Robot integration experience.
• Proven leadership experience in Project Management of electrical / controls and automation systems.
• Software / PLC programming knowledge desired, A.B as core competency with Siemens exposure.
• Experience in planning and implementing Andon, Industry 4.0, and IOT system. (Prior experience with Ignition is preferred)
• Guarding and safety experience.
• Risk assessments analysis.
• Understand and use hydraulic and pneumatic schematics and detailed mechanical drawings as related to electrical controls.
• Knowledge in AutoCAD, Creo, and Fusion desired.

Responsibilities

• Grow and Develop a Team of Automation and Controls Engineers
• Leads electrical engineering controls and automation projects to ensure standards are followed.
• Provides technical expertise and input into reliability issues for factory systems: PLC, HMI, Andon's, variable speed control, servo motion control, etc. to maximize plant efficiency and reliability.
• Provides leadership in the management of software modification and optimizing programming and maintains all records.
• Participates in establishing company best practices and standards for electrical engineering, controls, automation, Industry 4.0, and IOT.
• Participates in cross-plant improvement teams.
• Develop strong partnership with plant manufacturing, corporate engineering and union workforce.
• Supports root cause analysis on electrical, instrumentation and control issues.
• Develop plan/process for support software maximize effectiveness of the operation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Machinery Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree