Process/Automation Engineer - (Job Number: 21000265) at Arconic in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania

Job Description:

Primary Duties and Responsabilities

• Provide operations support and search for technologies related with new equipment and processes associated to thermal break assembly, cutting and packing for aluminum profiles

• Manage projects on a manufacturing environment with the goal to increase efficiency, productivity, improve quality and OEE

• Provide day-to-day technical advice, problema solving and support to operations and maintenance by applying engineering principles, reliability tools to drive problems to root cause

• Develop and propose equipment modification plans based on failure data, craft feedback and OEM design modifications

• Apply lean manufacturing methodology on the shop floor with production

• Ensure compliance of projects and maintenance work with appropriate engineering standards

• Manage multiple projects at the same time including subcontractors both mechanical and electrical

• Drive cost reduction innitiatives for productions areas

• Support operations in improving process management and performance. Key success factores include improving line performance and quality throughput, reducing changing overs, reducing equipment downtime, improving overall OEE and efficiency

• Support operations on failure investigation, leading root causes analysis

• Document and develop manufacturing procedures

• SCADA - data collection, historian and andon services

• Interact with process network, troubleshoot, manage, grant access and setup data analysis ODBCs

• Develop and propose wireless automation solutions

• Utilization of various industrial protocols across different types of media. Including cat5e, fiber, wireless, serial, etc. E/IP, Modbus, Modbus Ethernet, DeviceNet as examples of protocols that may be utilized

• Manage process computers, programs and do backups

• Troubleshoot process IT issues with maintenance team or local process engineers

• Apply patches to process network workstations and servers

• Manage projects supporting operations

• Manage projects with interaction between IT and manufacturing processes

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Understand manufacturing processes & integration with IT

• Ability to manage process and troubleshoot, manage & grant access, setup data analysis ODBCs

• Understand process networking hardware (swtiches, ports, cabling, etc)

• Understand process networking software (servers, programs, machine-interactions, etc)

• Smart manufacturing and collaborative systems

• Project management - knowledge on project management methodology

• Lean manufacturing - knowledge on lean manufacturing methodology

• Abitility to work with process control systems

• AutoCAD skills for creating custom or modified details/drawings

• Initiative - job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction

• Problem solving - job requires advanced problem solving skills and experience in strctured, root-cause problem solving methodology

• Disciplined execution - job requires daily execution to the plan, when required, he/she will be need to be able to dive into details to ensure operational success

• Energy - job requires high levels of personal energy and initiate to be successful

• Stress tolerance - job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations

• Critical thinking - needs to be logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weakness of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems

• Problem sensitivity - ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong

• Ability to function in an environment with tight deadlines

• Organization and time management skills

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 4-year Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Controls and Automation Engineering

• At least 4 years of industrial manufacturing experience

• Experience with network, hardware, software, and machine-interactions

Preferred Qualifications

• PLC programming experience

• HMI programming experience

• Machine control design and build

• Process Engineering

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