PD Production Equipment Maintenance III

 

Responsibilities:

Supervision of PD Production Equipment Maintenance personnel.To meet and enforce policies, standards, procedures, and regulations of the company.To develop projects focusing on continuous improvement, cost reduction, and quality improvements.To manage projects, on time and form, committed to official documents.To identify opportunity areas for automation processes.To develop PLCs and HMIs programs as necessary according with department’s requirements, using PLCs brands in the company, and keep programs’ review traceability.To keep control of PLCs programs database (updated and with revision traceability).To perform HMI upgrade (updated and with revision traceability).To measure, monitor, and improve the OEE and OSE metrics of automated equipment used in PD area.To develop automated equipment in accordance with production demand following quality criteria, using URS as guidance for equipment development.To develop prototypes by researching new technologies, materials, designing and being responsible for the development, test, and inspection criteria.To coordinate equipment development with external suppliers, to provide necessary information for projects follow up: drawings of components related to the project, material handling and shipping, equipment assessment, equipment transportation and installation.During equipment development, they shall consider whether it is necessary or required to use a network communication system to optimize machine’s wiring.During URS development they must be able to identify minimal required devices (PLC, Expansion modules, networks, HMI, etc.) for machine’s construction according with its complexity.To develop and upgrade vision system (Cognex, Omron, and Keyence) programs and keep traceability of programs revision.To design fixtures or mechanical parts for assembly processes or assembly equipment using Solid Works program or AutoCAD.To manage computer aided design programs, to maintain and update equipment drawings, pieces, and devices.To perform root cause investigations to solve quality problems where automated equipment is involved.Responsible for supporting the investigation of customer complaints, NCs and CAPAs related with the machines’ quality or performance, focusing on root cause solutions.Shall participate in validation process of new assembly equipment or validation of machines’ upgrades.Responsible for maintaining validated state of automated equipment.To develop engineering studies related with quality, capability, and performance of automated equipment.To document each project development, gather, and keep all information generated since the beginning of project.To write, review, and perform the operation and maintenance procedures of equipment and machinery related with product assembly.To perform preventive or corrective maintenance of automated equipment.To keep spare parts list updated.To calculate maximum and minimum for spare parts.To provide training for all personal involved in operation and maintenance of automated equipment.To support and train technical personnel that performs maintenance of assembly equipment.To ensure all corrective and preventive maintenance records are documented immediately when activity takes place.

 

Qualifications:

Engineering bachelor’s degree (Graduated in Mechanics, electronics or automation).Bilingual English / Spanish.Medical products manufacturing.Projects management.Knowledge of electricity.Knowledge of electronics (motor drivers’ control, Servo motors, Robot Cylinders, robots’ Communication network -Device net, Profibus DP, Control Net-).Knowledge of vision system programing (Cognex, Keyence, and Omron).Knowledge of Pneumatics (e.g. Fluid Sim, Intelligent Network Control Valve).Knowledge of measurement equipment (e.g. Multimeter, Chatillon, Instron).Knowledge of tools and machinery (Machine Shop).Computer knowledge (e.g. Microsoft Office programs: Project C, Visio).Knowledge of statistics and Minitab software.High level knowledge in equipment controlled by PLC (e.g. counters, timers, Flip Flop, math comparator, logics operations, data acquisition) following a structured schedule and defining safety as priority.Mechanical design (Solid Works and AutoCAD).