BU INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENGINEER
About The Position
The Industrial Automation Engineer supports assembly automation at OPmobility’s Fairfax site in Kansas City. The role promotes health, safety, and environmental (HSE) and quality policies, assists operations with assembly-process and equipment issues, and contributes to productivity workshops and industrial projects. It supports the technical development, specification, sourcing, validation, and commissioning of robotized applications, while ensuring project standards are followed and lessons learned are incorporated into best practices. The position also contributes to robotic network activities, defines technical standards, and industrializes validated solutions. Project support may involve sites in the United States and Mexico.
Requirements
- Engineering Technician with experience or a Master’s degree in engineering, in automation and robotics.
- Two to three years of experience in assembly at a plant or equipment supplier, or as an assembly equipment project manager at another automotive Tier 1 supplier.
- Advanced experience in robotics and automation.
- Good understanding of HSE and ergonomics.
- Knowledge of FANUC robots, including TPE language and RoboGuide simulation software.
- Knowledge of KUKA robots, including KCL language and KUKA.Sim Pro simulation software.
- Knowledge of Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLC/HMI systems.
- Good communication skills and ability to work as a team player.
- English-language skills.
- Willingness to travel.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of vision cameras and AI.
Responsibilities
- Promote HSE and quality policies and procedures, including risk analysis of PLC, robot, and HMI programs and follow-up on HSE validation.
- Support operations with major or new issues involving assembly processes and equipment.
- Conduct automation audits on equipment and cells.
- Coordinate supplier modifications to robotic, PLC, and HMI programs.
- Adjust robot and automation programs during tuning, retrofit, or reuse phases.
- Participate in operations productivity workshops.
- Validate the technical feasibility of robotics aspects and participate in design for manufacturing when required.
- Support the definition of equipment specifications and supplier sourcing.
- Support validation and commissioning of robotized applications, including functional analysis, validation plans, and project reports, in line with robotic equipment standards.
- Ensure methodological and technical standards are applied across projects.
- Consolidate project lessons learned into métier best practices and standards.
- Contribute to robotic network activities linked to the central roadmap.
- Participate in defining technical standards.
- Industrialize validated solutions.
- Support projects in the United States and Mexico.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
