What are the responsibilities and job description for the Robotics Field Engineer position at Mackinnon & Partners?
Robotics Maintenance Engineer & Robotics Maintenance Technician
Remote with Travel role
About the PODS (Production Optimization, Deployment & Solutions) team:
- Perform preventative, corrective, and predictive maintenance activities for robotic cells in customer sites
- Coordinate and execute inspection, maintenance, and repair tasks on robotic-centric manufacturing cells in the field
- Systematically diagnose technical issues, apply standard resolution tactics, and repair equipment with consistency
- Demonstrate passion about robotics-centric automation, be energized by the variety of manufacturing settings you will encounter, and use your demonstrated troubleshooting and maintenance skills to meet and exceed customer expectations
- Proactively identify potential problems and provide solutions, instilling customer confidence in Formic service
- Provide detailed service reports that list the Issue, root cause analysis (RCA) and solution
- Lead RCA activities with a team of engineers and technicians across the team
- Effectively communicate with all levels of internal and external stakeholders from operators to senior management and executives
- Demonstrate a high level of attention to detail in everything thing you do
- Mentor junior or newly hired Engineers and Technicians as needed
- Coordinate onsite schedule (self, vendor, and when applicable, other technicians) in alignment with customer expectations
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and policies, as well as a clean and safe work environment
Requirements:
- 2 years field service/maintenance experience with robotics automation
- Prior experience installing, diagnosing, and repairing 6-axis robots
- Experience using Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
- A motivated self-starter, able to work independently
- Ability to travel up to 80% travel - mostly driving within a local area - with up to 20% requiring overnight stays
- Current, valid driver's license and access to your own vehicle for daily local travel (Formic does provide mileage and expense reimbursement for travel-related expenses within policy)
- Ability to work alternative schedules to support production outages, including some weekends, nights, and on-call hours
- Currently located in, or willing to relocate to, the greater Sacramento, CA area (including greater Sacramento, East Bay, Oakland, Modesto)
