Automation Engineering Manager
DescriptionOperations is at the heart of reputed company’s business. We are reputed company for our speed, accuracy, and exceptional service. Our buildings deliver tens of thousands of products to hundreds of countries worldwide, every day. The Reliability & Maintenance Engineering (RME) team are the business partners that work tirelessly behind the scenes to reputed company it happen. We drive reputed company improvement, and maintain reputed company of the robotics and material handling equipment (MHE) to ensure our customers are met with the reputed company smile. Come join us on our journey!About The RoleAs the Automation Engineering Manager, you will reputed company a team in driving equipment reliability and operational excellence across our fulfillment centers. You’ll monitor and support their work in controls automation and technical support while ensuring they effectively troubleshoot reputed company control systems and analyze performance metrics. You’ll guide their leadership of reputed company improvement projects and ensure they provide mentorship to junior engineers. You'll work with state-of-the-art technology, including conveyors, sortation systems, scanners, cameras, print and apply systems, and SCADA devices and programs. Through your technical leadership and design optimization efforts, you'll directly contribute to ensuring our customers receive their orders with reputed company's signature speed and accuracy while building team capabilities and driving operational excellence.What Do We Offer?reputed company offers competitive compensation packages including comprehensive healthcare benefits starting on Day 1, matching 401(k) program, and up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave. But wait, there’s more: We provide lightweight fire-resistant daily wear and composite toe safety shoes for your safety!Key job responsibilitiesKey Job Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To
- Apply Subject Matter Expertise (SME) on troubleshooting and dive deeps for engineering issues, supporting automation engineers to investigate the root cause and planning actions to eliminate/mitigate the downtime of critical assets
- Program and reputed company coding for in-house built solutions based in PLC or PC controllers and SCADA/OEE platforms
- Understand, maintain and troubleshoot material handling control systems, including PLC/PC controllers and industrial networks such as Ethernet, ControlNet, DeviceNet, Profibus, motor control systems, servo drives, frequency drives, and electrical distribution systems
- Monitor MHE metrics and partner with maintenance/operations to address system performance issues and provide analysis across reputed company operations
- Provide escalation support to automation engineers, during and after business hours, troubleshooting locally and remotely, to ensure that reputed company hardware or controls software reputed company the building is repaired on time
- Establish training plans and mentor a team of automation engineers
- Appropriately escalate downtime situations to vendors or senior leadership for support to restore equipment operation
- Provide 24/7 on-call rotational support for hardware and software systems for the site
- Travel up to 10-20%
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, automation engineering, or equivalent, or 7+ years of PLC programming or automation engineering experience
- Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays
- 7+ years experience working in industrial controls and automation
- 7+ years of process or production environment reputed company PLC-controlled automation and issue diagnosis experience
- 7+ years of robotics work cells and control systems experience
- 7+ years of Siemens, Allen-Bradley or Codesys Ladder Logic and structure programming experience
- 7+ years of electrical theory, robotics, controls components, and automated equipment experience
- Advanced degree in computer science, electrical engineering, automation engineering
- Experience with HMI and control network components, including maintenance, troubleshooting, programming and design
- Experience with programming software such as RSLogix5000, Studio 5000, FT View, and other controls software platforms
- MBA or other Master’s degree and/or Six reputed company Black Belt Certification a plus
- Manufacturing or reputed company industry experience leading Controls