Senior Manufacturing Automation Engineer

Dynamics Inc.; Cheswick (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dynamics Inc. is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to advance our production and implementation capabilities.

You will collaborate with design, process, and automation teams to conceptualize, test, and implement scalable manufacturing technologies, including robotics and automation systems. Responsibilities include operating manufacturing lines, training teams, qualifying processes, and driving quality initiatives across the supply chain to reduce costs and risk.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with at least 15 years in manufacturing automation/robotics.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Proficiency in relevant computer applications.
• Understanding of root cause analysis and corrective action development.

Responsibilities

• Identify deficiencies in mechanical/automation/robotic processes and implement improvements.
• Design and develop automation and robotic prototypes.
• Manage all phases of manufacturing projects.
• Validate process and product quality through testing and continuous improvement.
• Lead manufacturing teams and optimize production schedules.

Skills

Automation engineering

Robotic engineering

Mechanical engineering

Manufacturing engineering

Data analysis

Root cause analysis

Project management

Team leadership

Statistical analysis

Testing & validation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Robotics hardware

Electronic test equipment

Data analytics software

Job description

Dynamics’ engineering capability includes design engineering, process engineering, and automation engineering.

Dynamics’ production and implementation group works to automate the physical manufacturing of our engineered designs, using our engineered processes, and leveraging our engineered manufacturing automation.

The Senior Automation Engineer will perform as part of our production and implementation capability. Our production and implementation capability works closely with our process engineering capability, design engineering resources, and automation engineering resources to conceptualize, develop, test, and implement the process technologies that enable our engineering designs to be manufactured in volume by our automation resources.

The Senior Automation Engineer will be responsible for advancing performance of our implementation domain prospective according to valid and sound scientific and engineering principles such that various methods and tactics can be applied to identify regions of the implementation space where Dynamics Inc. can manufacture and improve its commercial products. Statistical analysis and root cause analysis is included in the capability.

The engineer will be required to perform mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, automation engineering, and robotics engineering and will be part of the operational leadership team managing our various manufacturing resources across our various manufacturing facilities. This role is also responsible for operating manufacturing lines, implementing manufacturing processes, implementing manufacturing automation, training manufacturing team members, qualifying processes, initiating and integrating quality improvement initiatives into the supply chain to reduce BOM and vendor material costs, reduce supply chain risk and develop new material and material sources.

Key Performance Indicators

• Identifying deficiencies in mechanical processes and developing mechanical, automation, and robotic improvements
• Designing and developing automation and robotic prototypes
• Developing, initiating and managing all phases of manufacturing projects
• Preparing documentation of critical analysis and providing suggestions for correcting errors
• Collaborating with team members proper allocation and tracking of resources
• Manage work schedules, manufacturing lines, train manufacturing team members, develop manufacturing profiles to run in different scenarios and to run and lead those profiles in various scenarios.
• Validate Dynamics process and product quality through testing, analysis and continuous improvement.
• Develop and initiate process improvement plans and present proposals, status updates and results to Quality Review Boards, Material Review Boards and Process Change Review Boards.
• Reduce material cost, material scrap and production down time by using SPC / DMAIC methodologies to take immediate and direct actions.
• Performs assessments and audits on processes and procedures to ensure compliance to specifications, engineering drawings, procedures and applicable industry standards

Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/combined education, at least 15 years of professional experience in a manufacturing environment specializing in automation engineering, robotic engineering, mechanical engineering or manufacturing engineering or other advanced technologies and/or disciplines (e.g., physics, applied mathematics, robotics etc.)
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proficiency in relevant computer applications
• Understanding of root cause analysis and corrective action development

Primary Skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a larger multi-disciplined engineering team
• Ability to work with databases to efficiently store, access, categorize and manipulate large amounts of Data
• Excellent time and project management skills
• Ability to lead people
• Ability to digest problems, determine potential solutions, test solutions, and then manage the introduction and maintenance of those solutions.
• Experimental design and analysis
• Technical and scientific communication
• Ability to analyze and resolve process issues varying from basic to very complex
• Working knowledge of electronic and optical test equipment

Secondary Skills

• Customer relationship management
• Solid documentation and technical writing