Automation Engineer

Flex; Johor; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

PTO

Job summary

Flex, a leading diversified manufacturing partner, is seeking an Automation Engineer to join its team at Flex PTP in Johor, Malaysia. The role focuses on specifying, designing and maintaining automation equipment and applications to meet specifications.

You will design and modify automation systems, create manuals and maintenance plans, and ensure machine uptime through proactive maintenance while collaborating with engineering to optimize processes for new products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering or similar field.
• Typically requires at least 6 years of experience in automation engineering in high tech electronics or related areas.
• Mechatronics design experience including robot/cobot implementations.
• Automated control experience (PLC programming).
• Experience developing devices with automatic camera recognition.
• Circuit design skills for equipment.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and modify automation equipment, tooling and applications to automate manufacturing processes.
• Establish technical manuals, drawings, models, training docs and preventive maintenance plans for automated equipment.
• Ensure uptime through preventive and breakdown maintenance and drive for continual improvement.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations to optimize automation frameworks for new products.
• Identify and drive changes to improve automation effectiveness of existing processes.
• Provide feedback to improve process and equipment designs.

Skills

Mechatronics design

PLC programming

Robot/ cobot integration

Circuit design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment.

Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add aAutomation Engineerlocated inFlex PTP.

Reporting to theAutomation ManagertheAutomation Engineerrole is responsible specifying, designing and maintaining automation equipment, tooling and applications as required to meet specifications.

What a typical day looks like:

• Design, engineer, and modify existing and new moderately-complex automation equipment, tooling and applications to automate manufacturing processes.
• Establish technical manuals, drawings, models, training documentation, preventative maintenance plans and troubleshooting guides for automated equipment and automated processes.
• Understand the machine operating standards, consequence of wear and tear parts and product defects
• Ensure the uptime of machines through regular preventive maintenance and breakdown maintenance
• Should be willing to learn & enhance the skill in all type of Automation equipment.
• Should prepare why-why evaluation & drive for permanent corrective actions.
• Should be able to give feedback to improve the design of process and equipment.
• Directs daily department activities to maximize equipment utilization and support production needs
• Coordinates maintenance activities with other functional groups such as engineering and operations to ensure the efficient operation of the departmental function.
• Collaborates and offers input to planning, building, and maintaining the Automation framework and associated processes for new products.
• Identifies and drives change to ensure automation effectiveness of existing processes.
• Demonstrates and thorough understing of customer requirements, offer suggestions and ideas on how best to deliver automation solutions.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or similar field.
• Typically requires at least 6 years of experience in automation engineering in the high technology electronics industry or related area.
• Mechatronics design (experience in implementing Robot/Cobot etc.)
• Automated control (PLC programing, etc)
• Experience in developing devices that include automatic camera recognition.
• Circuit design skills for equipment.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• PTO

Job Category

Production Engineering

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