Automation Engineer

About the job

Job Description:

• 4-5 years of relevant experience
• Should be able to translate user requirements into functional design and a technical concept
• Provide advanced technical solutions and leads team through process.
• Demonstrate creativity and ingenuity in applying engineering principles and practices.
• Devise innovative solutions to existing manufacturing problems.
• Apply working knowledge of product design and assembly to the manufacturing process.
• Should conduct plant assessments & understand customer requirements and define DOU / SOW
• Should support in preparing RFQ/RFIs to vendors and should evaluate vendor quotes
• Should support in preparing proposals to customers and should play role in winning projects
• Coordinate offshore & vendor teams based on project requirement.
• Should support Project Status Reviews and Senior Management Reviews
• Responsible for customer satisfaction and future engagement with customer
• Should be able to travel across the multiple locations

Skills required:

A) General

• Project Management Skills & End-to-end Automation project execution experience

• Project estimation & Proposal preparation

• Customer Management

• Vendor Management & RFQ to Vendors

• Offshore co-ordination

• Plant assessments

• Very good interpersonal and communication skills.

• Critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities

• Business development skills and co-ordination with sales

B) Manufacturing Automation

• Manufacturing Automation experience

• Experience in custom engineered solution businesses as well as factory automation is ideal.

• Experience in developing system integration solutions for assembly line automation projects.

• Strong Fundamental knowledge of Mechanical Engineering and control automation.

• Should have good understanding of the automation ecosystem.

• Automation high level concept Preparation

• Automation ROM & BOM high level estimation

• Low-cost automation, Fixture design, SPM & Testing machine knowledge

• Robotics / Collaborative robot Automation

• Process Automation

• Assembly, Pick & place, Vision and Inspection automation

• Industry experience – Truck & Off Highway Manufacturing. (any other industry will be added advantage)

• Knowledge of Operation technology communication protocols

• Automation Cell integration experience ( Robotics/Pneumatic/PLC/Safety etc.)

• integration experience in robotics and linear motion systems

• Competent in performing value stream mapping and leading lean manufacturing initiatives