Responsibilities:
Safety:

• Work safely and continually look for improvements in personnel and equipment safety
• Ensure safe design and operation of new equipment
• Ensure automation design reflects safety and ergonomic concerns for operations and maintenance

Automation Design:

• Partner with colleagues to lead the discipline through solution assessment, replication, and development
• Provide support to manufacturing during project profiling and design
• Exploring and implementing new ways to automate systems
• Designing and testing automation equipment and processes
• Eliminating defects and errors with product and software development
• Analysis of operations, workflows, and packaging process to provide solutions to maximize efficiency and reduce waste

Project Engineering:

• Ensure project design meets intended requirements, considers life cycle cost, and eliminates non-value add complexity
• Use replication and best practices to optimize project cost
• Work with other engineering team members and disciplines to deliver turnkey project implementation to the plants

Education: 

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or similar engineering or technology field

Experience:

• Minimum three (3) to five (5) years of experience as an Automation Engineer or Similar
• Factory storeroom experience in a manufacturing environment

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency in maintaining automation equipment
• Experience with robotics, AI and machine learning
• Experience with project management
• Solid understanding of computer programming and software development
• Ability to troubleshoot equipment and perform complex system tests
• Strong leadership and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Creative thinking skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to communicate well with other members of the engineering team
• Ability to keep up with the latest technologies
• A desire to continually upgrade technical knowledge
• Ability to manage contract resources and projects to deliver a common set of objectives