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To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add an Automation Engineer located in Suzhou Wuzhong.
Reporting to the Operations Engineering Manager, the Automation Engineer role involves...
What a typical day looks like:
- Robot/PLC Software architecture & design
- GUI & HMI design and implementation
- API's & Integration with ERP, shop-floor management systems and machine controls (PLC's, Drivers, Robots controllers, Industrial communications protocols)
- Perform site surveys to identify and document existing customer equipment and processes.
- Coordinate project activities with other associates, outside vendors/contractors and customers.
- Collaboration with company IT (interfaces, security, company standards)
- Conduct and supervise integration and service by technicians and user engineers
- Automatic Data gathering, statistics, analytics and representation through reports & dash-boards
- Create and maintain related controlled documentation (logics & functional schematics, state machines, business scenarios, sequencing & timing diagrams, process flows, acceptance test procedures, technical/operational/maintenance manuals)
- Support system Commissioning, Qualification and de-bugging
- Manage the Software configuration control and release
- BP(Best Case)/Brochure summary; Good at PPT ; presentation
- a minimum of 5 years of experience in:
- Multi-disciplinary systems, multi software platforms (PLC is prior)
- Industrial Automation & industrial equipment controls, manufacturing/process
- Robot/PLC logic & programming, troubleshooting, and configuration with industry vendors (Robot: Yamaha, Fanuc, Epson, Kuka, Denso, Nachi, others ; PLC: Beckhoff, Siemens, Omron, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, etc'...)
- Serial & Bus Communication protocols: Ethernet/Profinet, RS232/422/485, Modbus, CAN Open, EtherCAT, Profibus, TCP/IP and others
- Data gathering, Data analytics, reporting and dash boards
- Remote monitoring applications
- Strong Hardware capability, including but not limited wire drawing, troubleshooting, and configuration with industry vendors (Cognex, Omron, Panasonic, etc. ...)
- Better to know Gantry programming: Festo; Hiwin, others
- Know DFMEA, PFMEA, DOE, CPK, GR&R, related assistance tools be plus
- Familiar related standard & system, like ISO9001, TS16949, EMS IPC-3 be plus
- Social Insurance
- Life Insurance
- PTO
Production Engineering
Required Skills:
Optional Skills:
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