What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automation Engineer position at Sterling Engineering?
Location: Elkhart, IN (100% onsite)
Hire Type: Contract to Hire
Must have: experience with robotics
Overview:
Sterling has helped build careers for thousands of professionals like yourself. Our expert recruiters support you at every step in the process and as a Best of Staffing company, Sterling provides exciting work with exceptional employers across the U.S.
- As a contract employee of Sterling, you are eligible to receive a Full Employee Benefits Package that includes paid time off, paid holidays, 3 medical plans to choose from, dental & vision plans, 401(k), and an Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) plan.
Responsibilities:
- Should be able to translate user requirements into functional design and a technical concept
- Provide advanced technical solutions and leads team through process.
- Demonstrate creativity and ingenuity in applying engineering principles and practices.
- Devise innovative solutions to existing manufacturing problems.
- Apply working knowledge of product design and assembly to the manufacturing process.
- Should conduct plant assessments & understand customer requirements and define DOU / SOW
- Should support in preparing RFQ/RFIs to vendors and should evaluate vendor quotes
- Should support in preparing proposals to customers and should play role in winning projects
- Coordinate offshore & vendor teams based on project requirement
- Should support Project Status Reviews and Senior Management Reviews
- Responsible for customer satisfaction and future engagement with customer
Qualifications:
- Educational Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work related experience
- Years of experience: 5 years of relevant work experience
- Project Management Skills & End-to-end Automation project execution experience
- Project estimation & Proposal preparation
- Experience in Customer/Stake holder Management
- Vendor Management & RFQ to Vendors
- Experience in conducting plant and process assessment
- Hand on experience in Manufacturing Automation applications
- Experience in custom engineered solution businesses as well as factory automation is ideal.
- Experience in developing system integration solutions for assembly line automation projects.
- Strong Fundamental knowledge of Mechanical Engineering and control automation.
- Design and implementation of end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) for various applications
- Design, development, and configuration of robotic and / or automation work cell layouts.
- Hand on experience in Robotics / Collaborative robot Automation implementation.
- Automation Cell integration experience (Robotics/Pneumatic/PLC/Safety etc.)
Salary : $40 - $53
