Mechatronics Engineer
Rain Bird
- Steele, AL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Safety engineering, safety investigations, accident investigations and safety enforcement.
- Manage, design, and develop automated manufacturing processes ensuring safety, quality, efficiency, and output.
- Identify and justify opportunities to apply industry best practices regarding automation, error proofing, testing methodologies, and new product development.
- Ability to install, enhance and troubleshoot robotics/electro-mechanical equipment and programing.
- Programming of PLC’s (Siemens, Allen Bradley), test digital platforms, circuit analysis, and signal analysis is required.
- Ability to liaise with our strategic business units on implementing new products.
- Provide technical support of existing production lines focusing on improvements to quality and rate.
- Work with other plant functional groups including maintenance, production, product engineering, materials, and quality to ensure production line uptime and product quality.
- S. Degree in Engineering or automation technology discipline
- 5+ years of hands-on automation engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of quality assurance, general statistics and Lean Six Sigma, data analysis and process improvement techniques
- Experience and an understanding of viewing drive parameters, robotic controls, and general automation practices to improve the manufacturing processes and improve failure modes.
- Relevant experience with PLC controlled automation, robotics and diagnostic troubleshooting in a continuous process or production environment.
- Strong understanding of automated vision inspection systems.
- Well organized, enthusiastic, strong work ethic, self-motivated.
- Ability to work with other departments and must possess a ‘hands-on’ approach to problem solving.
- Minimum 5 years of experience as an Automation Engineer
- Preferably an Electrical Engineering degree or equivalent
- Experience with analog electronics (amplifiers, analog signal, filters), robotics (troubleshooting and programming), controls components and other automated equipment
- Experience identifying, maintaining, troubleshooting, and modifying motor controls including motor starters, variable frequency drives and DC drives.
- Industrial electrical hands-on experience and troubleshooting
- Experience identifying, maintaining, troubleshooting, programming, and designing HMI and control network components.