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.
Company Info.
Brooks Automation
Brooks is a leading provider of automation solutions. We have been a key participant in the semiconductor industry for more than 40 years providing precision robotics, integrated automation systems, and contamination control solutions enabling chip manufacturers globally.
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