Robotics Manufacturing Engineer

Key Skills

AI Robotic systems, AI technology, Automation, Effective communication skills, OOPS, Python Programming

Job Description

Brooks Automation is seeking a Robotics Manufacturing Engineer to provide electro-mechanical manufacturing engineering expertise to our operations.

This role includes three major areas of responsibilities:

Advanced Manufacturing Engineering: continuous improvement, optimization, New Product Introduction – a member of a HW & SW development team with objectives to increase productivity, improve product quality and raise Employee engagement

Stabilization and Sustaining: steadiness, maintenance and balance - Providing daily support and proactively maintain the product line ensuring safety, quality and delivery goals are met.

Retrenchment and product risk mitigation: economizing, reduction of costs & spending -accomplish more with less while foreseen and implementing resolutions for issues that may occur down the road

Responsibilities:

• All about comprehensive ownership of your assigned product line and its technicians!
• Continuous evaluation and improvement of manufacturing processes, while ensuring product meets the highest quality and delivery time
• Apply knowledge of product design and assembly methods to the manufacturing process
• Soliciting observations from technicians to point out and suggest resolutions that will solve and improve existing manufacturing problems
• Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, equipment layout, and safety as overall frame
• Develop tools to analyze raw data and detect potential trends and insight, while collaborating to implement an application into a predictive analytics tool and troubleshooting guide
• Initiate and collaborate with engineering teams to build model design, optimizing processes, and automating configuration and testing
• Select analytical techniques and model methods best to solve automation challenges within manufacturing environment
• Lead New Product Introduction (NPI) implementation processes from product design reviews for manufacturability, concept, development, pilot, launch and volume scale-up
• Lead capacity expansion projects
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, participating in professional societies
• Assure product and process quality by implementing and executing testing methods
• Keep production equipment operational and UpToDate by coordinating maintenance and calibration
• Design and modify jigs, fixtures and tooling to improve manufacturing work methods and improve quality
• Develop proactive maintenance measures and unique test fixtures to prolong equipment life cycle
• Confers with vendors to determine product specifications and arrange for purchase of equipment, materials, or parts and evaluates products according to specifications and quality standards.
• Prepare product and process reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Maintain product and company reputation by complying with government regulations
• Completes design and development projects by training and guiding technicians
• Calculate production time, staffing requirements material and equipment costs, reviewing production schedules as well as estimate future needs in those areas to provide information to management
• Removing unsupported old, obsolete, required license SW utilities, replacing them with newly developed automation programs tailored to Brooks specific needs
• Collaborate in development of new methods and SW tools that economizing the need of special HW purchase
• Participate in cross-departmental meetings to help the company meet budgetary and performance goals

Education:

• B.S. degree in one of these fields: mechanical / electrical / manufacturing engineering, or other related fields with relevant experience

Position Requirements:

• Curiosity is your nature and possess a desire to learn and continuously improve
• +3 years in engineering / manufacturing environment function
• Hands-on manufacturing facility, experience in assembly lines and process development
• Proven problem-solving skills with ability to troubleshoot complex issues and address root causes
• Strong statistical background to process and derive out of data meaningful actions
• Technical writing skills to document and update assembly work instructions
• Knowledge of Visual Factory routes, configuration is desirable, will be expected to learn
• LEAN manufacturing mind set, systematically strive to eliminat waste and creating flow in the production process
• Familiarity with the following methodologies to optimize waste in production: JIT, 5S (sort, set in order, shine, standardize, sustain), Kanban and lean 6 sigma (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control)
• Hands on coding experience in Python or any other OOP, with proven abilities using scikit-learn and data frames
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, first piece inspection knowledge
• Understanding of manufacturing scheduling, inventory management, yield analysis, capacity planning, and optimization
• Proficient with design of experiment (DOE), gauge R&R, test method assimilations, as well as process verification and validation
• Ability to estimate manufacturing costs including labor time, setup time and material costs in support of new product introduction
• Verbal skills, be respectful to others, function within manufacturing, design, and quality engineering teams
• Must be self-driven with capability of working under minimal supervision
• Strong and effective interpersonal skills with the ability to teach, train and develop others
• Excellent organizational skills, capable of developing, maintaining, and reporting out on project plans and status
• Candidate must have effective written and oral communication skills, capable in communicating to multiple audiences including senior management and customers.
• Comfortable working with and around both mechanical and electrical equipment.