Job Description

Overview

The Big Picture:

The Automation Engineering Leader will be responsible for leading and developing the automation team within Alliance Laundry System LLC. This will involve both¨NBSP;onsite development and impletion as well as program management of vendor provided solutions.  Resolution of day-to-day reliability activities can escalate to this team but they are not the first line responders.

Responsibilities

• Grow and Develop a Team of Automation and Controls Engineers

• Leads electrical engineering controls and automation projects to ensure standards are followed. 

• Provides technical expertise and input into reliability issues for factory systems: PLC, HMI, Andon’s, variable speed control, servo motion control, etc. to maximize plant efficiency and reliability. 

• Provides leadership in the management of software modification and optimizing programming and maintains all records.

• Participates in establishing company best practices and standards for electrical engineering, controls, automation, Industry 4.0, and IOT. 

• Participates in cross-plant improvement teams. Develop strong partnership with plant manufacturing, corporate engineering and union workforce. Supports root cause analysis on electrical, instrumentation and control issues.

• Develop plan/process for support software maximize effectiveness of the operation.

Qualifications

**What you need to bring to the table:

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**Education and Experience:

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• BS in Electrical Engineering/Mechanical/Manufacturing or equivalent technical degree with relevant experience.

• Demonstrated leadership of project teams

• First-hand experience delivering electrical, controls and automation capital projects within a manufacturing and assembly environment

• Robot integration experience.

• Desired Proven leadership experience in Project Management of electrical / controls and automation systems.

• Software / PLC programming knowledge desired, A.B as core competency with Siemens exposure.

• Experience in planning and implementing Andon, Industry 4.0, and IOT system. (Prior experience with Ignition is preferred)

• Guarding and safety experience

• Risk assessments analysis 

• Understand and use hydraulic and pneumatic schematics and detailed mechanical drawings as related to electrical controls.

• Knowledge in AutoCAD, Creo, and Fusion desired

**Other Qualities We Value:

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Alliance Laundry Systems is an industry leader. Successful candidates demonstrate DRIVE: 

• Dedicated: Do what you say you will do. 

• Respectful: Challenge ideas, Not individuals. 

• Innovative: Discover a better way. 

• Versatile: Adapt quickly. 

• Engaged: Be all in.