Equipment Engineer

The Role:

• Design procure implement and validate advanced automation and capital equipment to unlock

• Develop new automated equipment by coordinating its design purchase or construction ensuring manufacturability reliability and lifecycle cost efficiency.

• Establish and deploy globally standardized equipment platforms across sites to ensure consistent performance simplified maintenance shared spares and accelerated technology.

• Enable production expansion at each site by driving the development and introduction of capacityscaling equipmentshortening rampup time derisking launches and aligning with demand plans.

• The following recent projects reflect ongoing initiatives in MTD-CoEand the associated resource requirements:

• NOVA/BCP Project

• YNZ EX/PGME Expansion project

• YNZ WEC Capacity Expansion project

• YNZ Future Expansion project

New equipmentdevelopment for new products (Both WEC and Photo)

In this role you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Automation & Equipment Development

• Design procure implement and validate advanced automation systems and capital equipment to enhance operational efficiency and manufacturing scalability.

• Develop new automated equipment by coordinating its design fabrication and qualification ensuring manufacturability reliability safety and total lifecycle cost effectiveness.

• Drive the introduction of capacityscaling equipment to support production expansionreducing rampup time mitigating risks and ensuring alignment with global demand plans.

• Identify lead and support continuous improvement initiatives and new equipment/process projects by developing detailed specifications electrical drawings implementation plans and other required documentation.

• Evaluate existing processes and introduce new automation tooling or processimprovement methods to enhance product flow improve quality increase firstpass yield and reduce cost and lead time.

• Create or revise work instructions routings and technical documentation; train production and maintenance teams on setup operation and troubleshooting of equipment and processes.

Global Platform Standardization

• Establish deploy and continuously improve globally standardized equipment platforms across multiple manufacturing sites.

• Ensure consistent equipment performance simplified maintenance procedures optimized spareparts strategies and accelerated technology transfer.

Manufacturing Performance & Collaboration

• Partner with manufacturing quality and supplychain teams to achieve 100% ontime delivery performance by eliminating quality issues resolving bottlenecks and improving equipment performance and capacity.

• Support readiness for new product introductions ensuring equipment capabilities documentation and processes meet production requirements.

Traits we believe make a strong candidate:

• A background in mechanical engineering or equipment design is preferred.

• Licensed mechanical engineer is preferred.

• Handson experience in designing and commissioning automated mechanical systems.

• Proficiency in designing mechanical components and automation mechanisms is preferred.

• Experience with robotics integration including robot programming endeffector design and safety systems.

• Experience with vision systems image processing and camerabased inspection technology.

• Expertise in safety system design including risk assessment functional safety and safety controller programming.

• Experience with mechanical reliability tools or statistical process control (SPC) is a plus.

• Knowledge of industrial communication protocols such asEtherNet/IP Modbus OPC UAa plus.

• Experience with SQLspecifically MSSQLand the ability to navigate create and optimize databases for historical data storage and data analysis is a plus.

• Familiarity with electrical systems and control panel design such as wiring diagrams sensors actuators and power distribution.

• Capability to perform rootcause analysis using structured methods such as 5Why FMEA or fishbone analysis.

• Strong project management skills including requirement definition scheduling and crossfunctional communication.

Your success will be measured by:

• Commitment to safety for colleagues and the environment.

• Completion of critical projects in a manner that satisfies the customer (internal or external) is within the agreed upon timeline and budget and exemplifies our core PACE values.

• Collaboration with the Manufacturing Engineering team and Production team and R&D team.

• Ability to lead teams and implement long range vision elements as related to automation through continuous improvement initiatives and strategic planning.

• Ability to work with a diverse group of people across geographies and skill sets to accomplish automation objectives.