Senior Advanced Manufacturing Engineer- Robotics

Position

Senior Advanced Manufacturing Engineer
- Robotics

Location

USA, Louisville, KY

How You’ll Create Possibilities

Technical Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced manufacturing robotic electrical, instrumentation and test system expertise in leading detailed and comprehensive planning for conceptualization, specification, development and implementation of right-sized manufacturing and test equipment.
• Responsibilities can extend across all areas of manufacturing and warehouse facilities.
• Manage robotic and control portions of capital equipment expenditures that support new product designs, factory capacity or efficiency additions, and quality improvement goals (typical project scope involves the development of specifications, supplier management, purchase, installation and qualification of the manufacturing test equipment).
• Participate within Production Preparation Process (3P) in developing workstation, test equipment and processes.
• Utilize cross-functional groups to ensure that the instrumentation, equipment and processes are compatible with the entire value stream. Efforts should include: right-sized equipment, workstation design, product presentation, standard work and single piece flow.
• Use data and statistics to characterize delivered test process capabilities in qualifying the release of test & manufacturing equipment.

Standards and Compliance

• Ensure all equipment executed in GEA factories comply with Industry (ANSI, ISO, NFPA, UL) and Governmental Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) standards.
• Utilize Human Organizational Performance (HOP) principles to ensure that all equipment and processes are implemented with the health and safety of the operators in mind.
• Develop mockups and prototypes to validate new designs and test for shop floor confirmation.
• Work with functional leaders to ensure test equipment & processes support business initiatives of Lean Manufacturing, Ergonomic Design and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

Cross-functional Work

• Work with factory operations and Lean teams to understand the Value Stream and how your projects impact this.
• Ensure material flow, workstation set up, model mix, etc. are considered when workstations / equipment are designed.
• Investigate new technologies and automation for appliance manufacturing and recommend applicable new technologies to quality and business leaders.
• Deliver guidance to cross-functional team members with regard to safety, performance and reliability testing systems.
• Utilize technical and project experience to add to the Advanced Manufacturing Industry 4.0 teams’ body of knowledge to drive continuous improvement throughout the organization and company.
• Work with design team to ensure Design for Manufacturing & Assembly (DFMA) and Design for Testability (DFT) is considered on part design.
• Experience managing capital equipment procurement projects:
  Including specification development, supplier selection, technical reviews, installation and qualification of equipment
• Prior experience in a large scale manufacturing environment
• Experience with Lean manufacturing principles
• Ability to work in large cross-functional teams and at multiple levels in the organization (both salaried and shop floor operators / skilled trades team members)
• Good communication skills – will be expected to provide program report outs to cross-functional team.
• Good organizational, project management and presentation skills to interact with all levels within the organization and with suppliers and vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of cross-functional program deliverables and ability to drive decisions based on the overall benefit to the company.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related…