Automated Process Equipment Engineer

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Qnity Automated Process Equipment Engineer

The Qnity Global Automation team is seeking an Automated Process Equipment engineer in Delaware for Integrated Operations.  The selected candidate will provide leadership, which includes supporting a global community, developing technology roadmaps with site engineers, and supporting sites with project execution.  The ideal candidate will have detailed expertise in designing and commissioning automated equipment for discrete and web-handling processes.  Design and development needs will range from improvements to existing manufacturing equipment to the development of new, custom-designed equipment.  In addition, this candidate will need to have a concentration in vision system expertise associated with web-handling systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supports the EHS organization to assist with investigations and action items.
• Collaborate and support of the Qnity S1M machine safety standard for the Integrated Operations organization.  Proactively address machine safety risks by participating in machine risk assessments (MRAs) during design and execution.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders at the site to understand the challenges they face and provide an automated solution.  The solution must be engineered in a way that has minimal impact on the area's ability to produce, and is minimally invasive to our external customer change protocol
• Develop equipment standards to support the equipment from a global engineering perspective and deploy the technology throughout the organization.
• Provides technical expertise to support the following:
  • Business-level and site-level Technology Roadmaps
  • Automation Assessments
  • Capital projects including Statements of Work (SOW), Design Reviews, Construction, Acceptance Tests, Commissioning, and Safety Reviews
  • Site Automation Evaluations/Improvements
• Provide expertise in mechanical layout and equipment design to support projects at the sites.
• Ability to collaborate with external suppliers to design, fabricate, and qualify equipment.
• Strong knowledge of electrical design and network architecture.
• Provide expertise in automated process equipment including robotics, barcoding, and inspection systems (vision and scanning).
• Ability to collaborate on multiple projects at the same time as a project leader
• Provides technical expertise for Management of Change, including technical reviewer of site MOC processes. 

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in a discrete and web-handling manufacturing environment focused on the design and maintenance of automated equipment.
• 5+ years of experience with web-handling vision system programming environments including ISRA Vision and Dr. Schenk.
• 5+ years of experience with SolidWorks CAD/CAE including Product Data Management (PDM)
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with coursework concentration involving machine vision and automated inspection.
• Able to travel to manufacturing sites (average 30% of time)
• Experience with Machine Risk Assessments and Performance Level (PL) calculations using SISTEMA
• Experience with mechanical and/or electrical fabrication technology
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a challenging, diverse team environment in a respectful manner.
• Demonstration of influential leadership to lead & mentor
• Strong Interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated problem solver

Key Behaviors required for this role

• Inspiring trust - Earns the respect of others; follows through on commitments; authentic; open to feedback; acknowledges and affirms contributions of others
• Self-driven - “Sense of purpose”; driven by a higher agenda; demonstrates the ability to elevate and remain objective; able and willing to take risks and do difficult things
• Collaborating with others - Empowers purposeful engagement; “servant leader”; keeps things simple; engages individuals/team to achieve superior results; creates an atmosphere of value-driven outcomes
• Accountable - Takes responsibility for actions; communicates with transparency; recovers from mistakes; owns their impact

Location:  Wilmington, DE

Languages: English required & Mandarin preferred

Salary:  SGL 17

Reports to: Global Automation Leader

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