Automation and Controls Engineer or Automation and Controls Engineer Senior

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine Solutions Fedwire National Settlement Service (NSS) FedCash FedACH and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national enterprisefocused organization. Over time FRFS will offer an increasingly integrated set of Federal Reserve payment services incorporating the FedNowSM Service upon its market entry in 2023. Through our evolved structure we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly we will seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings and we will create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

We are seeking leaders to set the vision strategy values and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic actionoriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity agility accountability and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a peoplefocused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

Position Summary:

The Transition Management team is seeking an Automation and Controls Engineer (ACE) to join their team. In this role you will support an automated material handling system which includes a multitude of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) several Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) and a thirdparty vendor supplied proprietary software application that work together to manage automation inventory and workflow in the cash vault.

Additionally you will: participate in key national projects including automation efforts collaborate with project leader and/or facilitate team efforts on highly complex system and local projects communicate and collaborate across system resources and department functions to resolve complex business and/or technical issues and provide highlevel expertise on automation and technological issues. This person must be able to work under moderate supervision while assisting outside contractors and vendors when work is performed in the Cash operations as level of work required is considered advanced and highly technical.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide high level expertise on automation and technological components working with our automated material handling external vendors business stakeholders application development teams and team members to develop a strategy which delivers projects that provide exceptional business value to the Cash community.
Provide internal presence and oversight from mechanical software and operational adherence to standards and procedures:

• Explore opportunities for continued innovation and evolution of vault automation systems.

• Conduct comprehensive evaluations of current material handling systems.

• Act as a trusted partner for internal operations.

• Develop new standards and qualifications to support and maintain the vault automation architecture.

• Monitor and evaluate the performance of material handling systems to identify opportunities for optimization and cost reduction.

Support consult and collaborate on projects and initiatives for the FRB vault automation system an automated material handling system for storing and retrieving containers in a warehousetype racking system:

• Produce technical system documentation including business requirements functional specifications user requirements traceability matrix risks project schedules and implementation plans.

• Manage project (i.e. budget schedule risks quality meeting minutes deliverables etc. of one or more project management processes to deliver the desired outcome to stakeholders.

Lead Cash offices and support representatives through trouble calls (e.g. AGV/SRM/vault software/PLC troubleshooting) serving as tertiary contact for issue diagnosis and resolution remotely and onsite which may include handson equipment maintenance or repair.
Measure vault data and system performance and create program metrics and dashboards based on trend analysis to communicate value impact and outcomes.

Education and Experience:
Automation and Controls Engineer:
Bachelors degree in relevant field required Bachelor of Science in Mechanical/Electrical/Control Engineering/Mechatronics preferred
At least 3 years of relevant work experience experience working with an automated vault management system and with industrial electronics (i.e. AC/DC drives Programmable Logic Controllers etc. desirable

Automation and Controls Engineer Senior:
Bachelors degree in relevant field required Bachelor of Science in Mechanical/Electrical/Control Engineering/Mechatronics preferred advanced degree considered a plus
At least 5 years of relevant work experience experience working with an automated vault management system and with industrial electronics (i.e. AC/DC drives Programmable Logic Controllers etc. desirable

Knowledge and Skills:
Requires demonstrated experience with maintaining or managing Automated Material Handling (AMH) systems.
Experience in Cash facilities is preferred.
Able to read and evaluate technical schematics and logical diagrams (i.e. AutoCAD MS Office).
Ability to work on ladders in crawl spaces and lift a minimum of 50 lbs.
Comfortable operating all types of material handling equipment including forklifts manual pallet jacks dollies hand tools and test equipment required for the job.
Strong analytical problemsolving and time management skills required.
Ability to influence successfully in a highly matrixed or virtual organization.
Experience generating presentations reports and queries from databases and use of SharePoint and JIRA.
Experience with data analysis tools is preferred (e.g. SQL SQL Server Tableau PowerBI).
Ability to work independently.
Must be able to travel approximately 30 annually for extended periods based on project lifecycle.
Must reside within twohours driving distance of a Federal Reserve Bank Automated Vault location.

Locations:
Hybrid onsite requirement will be determined by hiring district
The selected candidate will reside within a reasonable commuting distance of the employing Reserve Bank and will work fulltime onsite or in a hybrid arrangement that meets the minimum number of onsite days required by the employing District. Reasonable commuting distance to a Reserve Banks main office is defined according to the Districts policies and practices.
Eligible districts for Hire: Boston MA New York NY Philadelphia PA Cleveland OH Richmond VA Atlanta GA Chicago IL St. Louis MO Minneapolis MN Kansas City MO Dallas TX San Francisco CA

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties performance standards or requirements efforts skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time.

Banks Ethics Rules and Drug Testing:
As a condition of employment Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Banks ethics rules which generally prohibit employees their spouses/domestic partners and minor children from owning or controlling directly or indirectly any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A depository institution means a bank a trust company or any institution that accepts deposits including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition employees (and their spouses/domestic partners and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy as stated in the prospectus of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting.

In addition as a condition of employment candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law to include prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.

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Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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