Automated Process Equipment Engineer

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Qnity Senior Automated Process Equipment (APE) Engineer

The Qnity Global Automation team is seeking a Senior Automated Process Equipment engineer in Delaware for Integrated Operations.  This is a senior-level position responsible for providing strategic leadership, which includes supporting a global community, setting technology roadmaps with site engineers, and directing the program management of multiple concurrent capital projects across sites.  The ideal candidate will have extensive, industry-recognized expertise in designing and commissioning automated equipment for discrete and web-handling processes.  Design and development needs will range from improvements to existing manufacturing equipment to the development of new, custom-designed equipment.  Preferably, this candidate will have a concentration in vision system expertise associated with web-handling systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supports the EHS organization to assist with investigations and action items.
• Collaborate and support of the Qnity S1M machine safety standard for the Integrated Operations organization.  Proactively address machine safety risks by participating in machine risk assessments (MRAs) during design and execution.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders at the site to understand the challenges they face and provide an automated solution.  The solution must be engineered in a way that has minimal impact on the area's ability to produce, and is minimally invasive to our external customer change protocol
• Set and own equipment standards from a global engineering perspective and drive deployment of the technology throughout the organization.
• Provides technical expertise to support the following:
  • Business-level and site-level Technology Roadmaps
  • Automation Assessments
  • Capital projects including Statements of Work (SOW), Design Reviews, Construction, Acceptance Tests, Commissioning, and Safety Reviews
  • Site Automation Evaluations/Improvements
• Provide expertise in mechanical layout and equipment design to support projects at the sites.
• Ability to collaborate with external suppliers to design, fabricate, and qualify equipment.
• Strong knowledge of electrical design and network architecture.
• Provide expertise in automated process equipment including robotics, barcoding, and inspection systems (vision and scanning).
• Lead the program management of multiple concurrent capital projects as a senior program leader, with accountability for scope, schedule, budget, and resource allocation across the portfolio.
• Provides technical expertise for Management of Change, including technical reviewer of site MOC processes. 
• Serve as the program lead for large-scale, multi-site automation initiatives, managing cross-functional teams, budgets, schedules, and risk from concept through commissioning.
• Mentor and develop engineers across the global automation community, providing technical guidance, coaching, and career development as a senior technical leader.

Qualifications:

• 20+ years of experience in a discrete and web-handling manufacturing environment focused on the design and maintenance of automated equipment.
• 10+ years of program management experience leading multiple concurrent capital projects, with demonstrated accountability for scope, schedule, budget, and resource management.
• 10+ years of experience with web-handling vision system programming environments including ISRA Vision and Dr. Schenk.
• 10+ years of experience with SolidWorks CAD/CAE including Product Data Management (PDM)
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with coursework concentration involving machine vision and automated inspection.
• Able to travel to manufacturing sites (average 50% of time)
• Experience with Machine Risk Assessments and Performance Level (PL) calculations using SISTEMA
• Experience with mechanical and/or electrical fabrication technology
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a challenging, diverse team environment in a respectful manner.
• Demonstrated senior-level influential leadership with a proven track record of leading, mentoring, and developing engineering teams
• Strong Interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated problem solver

Key Behaviors required for this role

• Inspiring trust - Earns the respect of others; follows through on commitments; authentic; open to feedback; acknowledges and affirms contributions of others
• Self-driven - “Sense of purpose”; driven by a higher agenda; demonstrates the ability to elevate and remain objective; able and willing to take risks and do difficult things
• Collaborating with others - Empowers purposeful engagement; “servant leader”; keeps things simple; engages individuals/team to achieve superior results; creates an atmosphere of value-driven outcomes
• Accountable - Takes responsibility for actions; communicates with transparency; recovers from mistakes; owns their impact

Location:  Remote

Languages: English required & Mandarin preferred

Reports to: Global Automation Leader

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