Automation Engineer

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Founded in 1917, Parker Hannifin Corporation is a $19.9 billion global company.

With annual sales of $19.9 billion in fiscal year 2024, Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial and aerospace markets.

The company has operations in 43 countries around the world.

Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 68 consecutive fiscal years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index.

Parker's engineering expertise and broad range of core technologies uniquely positions the company to solve some of the world's greatest engineering challenges.

By partnering with customers, Parker improves their productivity and profitability and seeks new ways to solve humanity's biggest challenges.

Headquartered in Richmond, California, Parker Hannifin's Veriflo Division delivers proven gas and fluid delivery systems and components to customers around the globe. We have the ability to integrate multiple technologies into unique solutions that require the highest levels of precision and performance in cost-effective packages.

For semiconductor tool manufacturers, Veriflo offers ultra-high purity stainless steel and fluoropolymer fittings, valves, regulators and manifolds for VMBs, CMBs, tooling modules, wafer cleaning, wet etching and other specialized microelectronics processing applications.

This high-tech market is constantly evolving, and Parker offers an extensive portfolio of products to support the demands of cleanliness and surface preparation for every process.

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Position Summary

Job Summary:

Design, lead, and facilitate the implementation of automation, robotic, and vision inspection technology in manufacturing to reduce the need for production labour, improve safety, and reduce process variation to improve process yield.

The Automation Engineer will work together with the CNC programmers, manufacturing engineers, quality and operations teams.

Responsibilities

Job Duties:

* Must have ability to deal with people at a cross-functional level. Position requires ability to effectively communicate in oral and written form to present information and respond to inquiries from employees, customers, and suppliers.

* Analyzes the current manufacturing processes in the CNC Machining, Injection Molding, and Assembly departments.

* Develops automated solutions to improve safety, quality and productivity of the process. Automation projects should be selected to support the Divisional Strategy, annual plans, and site transformation plans, and maximizing payback to the organization. The projects should include areas with high labor content, or processes that are: repetitive (dull), have high safety risk as determined through ergonomic or job safety analysis, or in dirty environments.

* Develops innovative solutions to complex engineering and manufacturing production problems through identification and implementation of automation technologies and advanced manufacturing processes including conducting process analysis, applying knowledge of product design, fabrication, assembly, tooling, and materials, conferring with suppliers, and soliciting observations from the operators/production technicians.

* Refines and enhances processes by applying continuous improvement and key Lean manufacturing / production principles and techniques to areas of production. Recommends product changes / improvements to Product Engineers.

* Trouble shoot problems as they arise.

* Improves manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout. Coordinates input that may cross multiple teams or areas; makes recommendations and implements changes.

* Assures product and process quality by designing testing methods, testing finished product and process capabilities, and establishing standards to confirm and validate manufacturing process requirements. Determines root cause of failure using statistical methods (e.g., design of experiment, SPC) that may result in changes in design, tolerances, or processing methods.

* Evaluates capital equipment investments and prepares cost justifications. Designs and prepares concept drawings of new equipment or modifications to existing equipment. Manages the overall implementations of capital equipment projects.

* Develops tooling and fixtures for new products and processes and works with tooling vendors to supply such designs. Identifies and implements solutions for issues relating to safety, quality, productivity, and cost reductions.

* Prepares documentation for new manufacturing processes and engineering…