Automation Engineer

Automation Engineer


Elkhart, IN
• Educational Qualification: Bachelor degree / Master Degree in Mechanical / Production / Manufacturing.
• Years of experience: 4-5 years of relevant experience

Roles & Responsibilities of Project Manager:
• 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 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

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