Manufacturing Automation Engineer
About The Position
Motorola Solutions is seeking a Manufacturing Automation Engineer for their Elgin facility. This role is crucial for supporting production, ensuring quality, and driving efficiency through automation. The engineer will actively interface with production, cost, quality, throughput, new product introduction, and support organizations. They will resolve daily production automation issues, provide input to improvement teams, identify corrective actions for quality issues, and implement changes to build procedures. The position also involves supporting product stop ship meetings, product ownership from a quality standpoint, and providing advanced support to automation lines to meet machine availability, performance, and quality metrics. Troubleshooting will encompass pneumatics, electrical systems, PLC logic, vision cameras, barcode scanners, robotics, servo axes, and networking/database issues. Coordination with internal teams and external vendors is expected for problem resolution and solution implementation. The role requires maintaining program backups, planning preventive maintenance, and analyzing machine performance metrics for continuous improvement.
Requirements
- B.S. in Engineering (Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical or Manufacturing)
- Solid understanding of advanced problem solving skills and experience implementing the same (DOE, statistical methods, etc).
Nice To Haves
- Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma exposure or experience
- Robotics and AI experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Resolve daily production related automation production issues.
- Interface with teams that address quality, new product introduction, capacity issues, purchasing, and planning.
- Provide input to the various factory sponsored cycle time and quality improvement teams.
- Identify corrective actions for factory related quality issues.
- Implement temporary and permanent changes to build procedures through documentation management.
- Support product "stop ship" meetings and work with a cross-functional team to resolve and implement corrective actions.
- Product ownership from a quality standpoint with a goal to drive efficiency gains through quality improvements.
- Provide advanced support to automation line to meet machine availability, performance and quality metrics.
- Troubleshoot problems with processes and hardware including pneumatics, electrical, PLC logic, vision cameras, barcode scanners, robotics, servo axis and networking/database.
- Coordinate with internal teams and external vendors in order to resolve complex problems and implement solutions.
- Perform PLC logic, robotic and HMI program modifications to support product changes and/or machine optimization.
- Maintain program backups for all automation equipment.
- Plan preventive maintenance.
- Analyze machine performance metrics and identify room for continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Incentive Bonus Plans
- Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
- 401K with Company Match
- 10 Paid Holidays
- Generous Paid Time Off Packages
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Paid Parental & Family Leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
