Sr Manufacturing Engineer

Fresenius Kabi•Grand Island, NY

About The Position

Supports all aspects of packaging systems, equipment, and machinery, specializing in automated and semi-automated vision systems for cosmetic and particle defect detection, serialization, and state-of-the-art automated packaging equipment. Serves as a technical resource to the Engineering and Packaging Departments to meet regulatory and company-specific policy requirements and improve plant efficiency, capacity, and capability through continuous improvement and modernization. Responsibilities include designing, laying out, testing, troubleshooting, and creating vision-system recipes for packaging systems; implementing improvements to increase equipment efficiency and prevent obsolescence; and ensuring packaging equipment, systems, and facilities remain validated and comply with applicable regulations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Packaging Engineering, or a related field of study.
Five years of experience.
Experience with high-speed automated visual inspection equipment and packaging machinery design.
Proficiency in reading electrical schematics and ladder logic.
Clear understanding of analytical troubleshooting with packaging equipment and vision systems.
Good written and verbal communication, documentation, organizational, and interpersonal skills to lead plant electrical staff.
Ability to effectively speak, read, write, and understand English to perform essential job functions, including independently understanding workplace policies, procedures, training materials, and communications.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of plant mechanical and electrical systems.
Ability to read construction and process drawings.

Responsibilities

Develop, test, and qualify vision-system recipes.
Provide technical support for packaging PLC and HMI troubleshooting.
Investigate equipment performance to identify problems and solutions.
Work with operators, quality assurance, and maintenance to identify and implement improvements.
Prepare and execute user requirement specifications, functional requirement specifications, design specifications and qualifications, factory and site acceptance tests, machinability studies, and standard operating procedures as needed for new and modified equipment.
Ensure the validated state of equipment, systems, and facilities and compliance with applicable cGMP, OSHA, DEC, EPA, ISO, and local government regulations.
Develop relationships with key vendors for technical support and assistance with hardware applications.
Design, lay out, test, troubleshoot, and create vision-system recipes for packaging systems.
Implement improvements to increase equipment efficiency and prevent equipment obsolescence.