Automation Manager Portland

Mondelēz International•Portland, OR

About The Position

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International? Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride. As part of Manufacturing, you’ll use your skills in our production lines, ingredient handling system and distribution center to help create the delicious finished products our consumers love. While taking ownership in your area of work, you’ll also ensure the safety of yourself and your colleagues while producing our top-quality products reliably and efficiently within our integrated supply chain. How you will contribute You will work with each of the multidisciplinary teams to lead and coordinate the digital transformation initiatives, automation upgrades, and process visualization systems. Work with different departments to ensure all the new implementations follow the global standards. Coordinate and plan electrical activities, training, and trouble-shooting electrical issues, including PLC or network related. Utilize and improve current technology to support the continuous improvement of Production and Maintenance effectiveness using digital tools. Provide strong leadership, support, planning, direction and supervision to assigned hourly electrical team members. Planning preventative/predictive maintenance, corrective maintenance, and equipment overhauls and upgrades as it pertains to the plant electrical systems.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechatronic / Electronic)
5 years of relevant work experience
Proficiency in working PLC’s Allen-Bradley all families
VFDs Allen-Bradley and Toshiba
HMI’s Allen-Bradley
Industrial communication networks; Ethernet, DH+, RIO & ControlNet
Understanding of Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and server/client system
Experience with industrial power & control circuits
Experience with industrial instrumentation
Experience with Ignition
Ability to read and understand schematics and electrical drawings
Experience in food industry, preferable in Mondelēz projects
Experience working with unions
Experience leading a multidisciplinary team
Proficient analyzing problems based on data
Proficient troubleshooting skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work with minimal supervision and function effectively in a highly demanding environment
Ability to interact effectively with outside vendors, production operators, team leads, and the maintenance trades

Nice To Haves

Maintenance background strongly preferred
Technical supervision experience
Electrical license is preferred

Responsibilities

Digital advisor in identifying projects for continuous improvement, waste reduction and performance improvement using digital tools
Multidisciplinary work to define and improve real time visibility across departments
Assess technical capabilities and definition of training roadmap for electrical team
Develop PLC (Allen-Bradly) and DCS (Foxboro) technical knowledge to be extended to the maintenance team
Develop and maintain personal technical knowledge in plant electrical and control systems
Develop disaster recovery plan for critical equipment
Provide technical support for maintenance team during assigned shift and on call support off shifts as required
Coordinate with other departments to identify improvements
Electrical site owner responsible to work with the corporate team in all electrical projects
Manage and maintain updated electrical and control documentation and resources
Coordinate with the site Safety Manager on electrical matters related to safety, power distribution, energy conservation, legal compliance, complaints, etc
Comply with all current federal, state, and local government safety, health, and environmental regulations
Develop preventive maintenance schedules for electrical distribution system, control equipment and instrumentation using CMMS
Develop & implement maintenance and inspection plans to ensure reliability, sustainability and security of electrical distribution infrastructure using CMMS
Supports and promotes future efforts to effectively introduce and implement maintenance redesign initiatives to extend equipment life and reliability
Actively engage and provide leadership in the IL6S progression journey
Work with the Engineering department through the lifecycle of capital projects to ensure successful implementation and transfer of knowledge
Work with the Engineering department to align future projects identifying potential productivity improvements
Ensures new projects are aligned with global standards
Ensures compliance to governmental regulatory OSHA and safety programs and processes
Ensure safe installations and operations thorough proper design, protection systems, procedures & training