Automation Engineer
Automation Engineer
We wish to recruit an Automation Engineer to help us in our drive to better use automation to improve labour efficiency, reduce material and energy usage and improve safety.
Our company is committed to the LEAN philosophy and to continuous improvement in all the activities we carry out.
We are convinced that increased use of automation plays a key role in making these improvements, and have a number of key projects already identified where the successful candidate could make an immediate impact, whilst getting accustomed to the company and its technologies.
Reporting to the General Manager, the successful candidate’s role will centre on:-
Designing and building adaptions to existing machines to substantially improve performance
Selecting and bringing into operation bought in automation, including training the workforce
on how best to operate and maintain it
The individual would become responsible for each step in the process of identifying opportunities
and bringing them to fruition:-
Identify opportunities -
Low labour or machine productivity
Product quality problems
Safety Issues
Evaluate solutions & prepare proposals for capital expenditure -
Costing of machines, equipment, installation labour, etc.
Evaluation of savings (labour, materials, energy, etc)
Prepare a cost benefit analysis
Implement solutions - Manufacture and / or buy in the appropriate equipment / machines / systems
Adapt the equipment to suit the application where required
Commission and bring into daily operation in the factory, including training of factory personnel on how best to operate and maintain the equipment
The successful candidate is likely to have;-
Some experience of project management in a manufacturing environment
Hands on implementation of automated machines, ideally integrating new technology into existing machines
Excellent communicator, able to tactfully question and analyse what machine operators report to identify the core problem
Comfortable with handling PLC’s, including programming and fault finding
A team player, but also able to work successfully as an individual