Automation Engineer - Assembly Machine Designer

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• Candidates must have four years or more experience designing
  
  

automated assembly machinery or automated packaging machinery.***

• We are looking for candidates who can perform this work upon being
  
  

hired.***

• These positions are not remote but are to be performed in our
  
  

facilities.***

Dixon Automatic Tool, Inc. is a family-owned business founded in 1946.

We design and build automated assembly machinery with a focus on

automated screwdriving. These are complex sales of engineered machines,

designed around proven standard Dixon mechanisms, and constructed and

tooled to assemble the customers parts to a defined specification.

Dixon Automatic Tool, Inc. has a long history of designing and building

equipment, stations, robotic end-effectors, and machinery for the

automated assembly of products, focusing on processes such as part

pressing, placing, screwdriving, and fastening applications. Markets

served are electrical, electronic, automotive, construction products,

medical, and the appliance industries.

This position is to be performed in our facility, by a full-time, direct

employee.

Our company operates a first-shift, daytime, on-site, work schedule. We

offer excellent benefits of Medical, Dental, Vision, Group Life

Insurance, Disability, and 401K/Roth retirement program.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a creative Automation Engineer - Assembly Machine

Designer to turn our customers specifications and Purchase Order into an

assembly machine that exceeds expectations. While working with company

managers and staff, must manage the Project through design, build and

test to meet cost, performance, and delivery requirements.

Tooling designs are a combination of standard assembly stations,

automated screwdriving, special fixtures, and target part manipulation.

Machine formats will range from simple stationary fixtures to

two-position slides, dial index tables, robotic assembly, servo

mechanisms, walking beam, power and free, pallet transfer, carrousel,

and continuous motion. We also sell automation products and stations to

machine integrators and work with them to ensure a successful

integration into their assembly machinery and systems.

Machines employ parts handling technology such as vibratory parts

feeders, inline feed systems, step feeders, centrifugal feeders,

transfer escapements, shuttles, track, and blow feeding of fasteners.

• Create solutions based on our Project Directives, customer
  
  

requirements and budget

• Apply Dixon standard components per customer objectives
• Project Management - communicates with staff & customers and manages
  
  

project throughout design, build, test & customer acceptance

• Design approval drawings, Bills of Materials, machine design, &
  
  

Engineering Release package

• Oversees the test and refinement stage of machine completion
• Work with sales application engineers in solving project goals
• Work with and train other employees