Process Engineer

Title: Process Engineer

Location: Rochester Hills, MI

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Review customer specifications for planning and meeting requirements.
• Communicate with Project Manager regularly to ensure accuracy of the project schedule.
• Lead the development of the following:
• Vacuum Tooling along with the entire vacuum infrastructure.
• Conveyors capable of transferring warehouse items such as envelops, polybags, parcels, boxes.
• Pneumatic system designs, including schematic design and BOM development.
• Equipment arrangement, Robot Reach, Payload Analysis, Cycle-time, tolerance studies, Mechanical & Pneumatic component sizing, system Sequence-of-Operations.
• Spare parts lists, maintenance and operational manuals, and 3D simulations for validating engineering requirements (develop and maintain 3D simulations).
• Generate written specifications detailing system functionality.
• Generate the Robot Safety Risk Assessment and review with project team.
• Plan, request, follow-up, and approve all mechanical engineering issues.
• Attend internal & customer project kick-off meetings and provide technical expertise.
• Review detailed project budget and provide forecast updates.
• Identify all work cell equipment that requires mechanical design and build and:
• Coordinate internal design resources based on capacity.
• Develop specifications to line-up external design/build sources, review quotes and place orders.
• Monitor progress and continuously review internal and external designs.
• Generate runoff criteria & coordinate the buyoff of equipment built by external suppliers prior to shipment to FANUC America.
• Support field installation, debug, & customer plant buyoff activities.
• Coordinate delivery & return of all documentation for customer approval.
• Ensure required documentation is available to manufacturing department for integration build; review and approve redline changes on manufacturing floor.
• Ensure as-built documentation package is delivered to the customer.
• Generate run-off documentation per project and customer requirements.

Ideal candidate will have the following experience and education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum three years of experience and expertise in (mechanical) system engineering, design, and integration of robotic automation systems.
• Experience with CAD software including AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and ROBOGUIDE Simulation.
• Knowledge of 3D Simulation and discrete-event simulation methods.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Provide proposal support and review per assigned application areas.
• Generate Work Change Request documents as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years of experience and expertise in (mechanical) system engineering, design, and integration of robotic automation systems.
• Exposure to ISO-9000, QS-9000, & TE Supplement quality systems.
• Familiarity with Reliability & Maintainability techniques such as FMEA, Root Cause Analysis, MTTR, MTBF, Availability, OEE, etc.

Required Competencies:

• Analytical, problem-solving skills – ability to identify causes and offer potential solutions.
• Team player - successfully work in teams with colleagues in varying responsibilities and backgrounds, personal initiative, and ability to effectively manage themselves in a somewhat unstructured environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including listening, presenting, and effective written and oral communication.
• Proven high level of competency in Windows, MS Office including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other web-based applications.