Factory Automation Manufacturing Engineer

Volt is immediately Factory Automation Engineer - Foundry hiring in Waterloo Iowa
As a Factory Automation Engineer - Foundry you will:
Primary Responsibilities
Plans, coordinates, and performs Manufacturing Engineering work for a project or process.
Operates in a team environment within either the enterprise product delivery process or the enterprise order fulfillment process.
At this level, projects are of moderate scope and responsibility or may be a significant portion of a major and diverse project or process; decisions are made within established guidelines and may be reviewed by supervisors and/or managers. May assign, coordinate and review portions of the work for support personnel, contractors, and suppliers.

• Description of the major duties performed in this job.
• Establishes routings, methods, layouts, tools, costs, methods documentation, quality plans and labor standards for revisions to current operations and/or new parts or programs of moderate scope.
• Provides support and troubleshooting for current operations.
• Investigates, gathers, and analyze data and implement solutions.
• Innovates and implements cost reduction, quality, safety, and ergonomic improvement ideas of moderate scope.
• Applies electronic tools across a broad range of applications, including e-builds, modeling, and simulations.
• Develops and implements plans to support lean manufacturing through the Deere Production System of moderate scope.
• Designs operations layouts.
• Improves material flow and material presentation.
• Leads team studies related to capacity, energy, productivity, and efficiency of moderate scope.
• Leads analysis, development and implementation of new manufacturing processes and technology.
• Analyzes and makes modifications to existing performance pay plans; assists in development of baseline data for new performance pay plans.

Requirements
What Skills You Need

• Company Factory Automation Engineering Services is seeking a Factory Automation Manufacturing Engineer at company Waterloo Foundry. In this role you will:
• Provide on-site shop floor support for production critical Factory Automation solutions and equipment that require quick response to guarantee uptime and productivity.
• Be responsible for changes to control logic and software including, but not limited to: relay ladder logic, PLCs, HMIs, and PC based logic.
• Provide electrical designs within applicable standards to build new, or modify existing, production machines and systems.
• Create and maintain interfaces for communicating with shop-floor tools, PLC controls, SCADA, and MES systems.
• Work with Quality, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, and Factory Automation Leads to ensure manufacturing and standardization goals are achieved.
• Support off-shift maintenance to troubleshoot machines and systems which may include electrical and mechanical issues.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Fresh grad with electrical or PLC programming experience/background.
• Open to a candidate with 2-year degree with this experience.
• Northeast Iowa Community College – Advanced Manufacturing program
• Northwest Iowa Community College – Industrial Instrumentation and Control program, Industrial Commercial Wiring program, Electrical Technology program
• Hawkeye Community College – Industrial Automation Technology program
• Indian Hills Community College – Electronic Engineering program, Electromechanical program, Robotics program
• Kirkwood Community College – Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics program or Automation and Instrumentation program

This is a Full Time, Contract opportunity.
Shift:
1st shift, 40 hrs./week, M-F.
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Waterloo Iowa
Pay Range: $40- $43 per hour.
*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.
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