Engineer Specialist - Welding

JOB DESCRIPTION

The primary job function of the Welding Engineer will support production welding processes by providing knowledge on industry best practices, and a keen eye for a continuous improvement. This position will also be responsible for the star-up and debug of machine tool equipment. Will be responsible to coordinate the management of predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance, standardization of SMP, SOP, Machine Ledger and AM calendars documents of your technology. Inventory management ensuring that spare parts are available maintain and audit correct compliance with maintenance activities welding matrix management to ensure processes and any changes are correctly updated to eliminate variation between amp sheets and the process

RESPONSIBILITIES

Roles & responsibilities:
Provide welding engineering support to production.
Develop and implement advanced welding processes including Laser, MIG/TIG, Orbital and Braze.
Fixture adjustments required to meet product dimensional targets.
Weld program changes as required to maintain acceptable level of weld performance.
Provide innovative, technically significant and economically important material and welding solution in support of manufacturing design.
Implement weld certification (quality) strategy during launch and product or process change events.
Work with cross functional team to develop quality documentation such as SCCAF, Process Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (PFMEA), and Control Plans (DCP).
Collaborate with plant personnel and skilled trades to plan equipment installations and development prove out plans the ensure equipment is ready for production.
Analyze machine vision inspection results and adjust laser controller parameters.
Analyzes product failure data weld in order to determine causes of problems and develop solutions.
Use welding system monitoring data for the evaluation of process quality control.
Training of all skill trades for manual, semi-automatic and robotic program equip welding related activities process.
Train and help lead Weld Techs.
PLC programming and troubleshooting.
NC programming and troubleshooting.
Interact with other engineering support and maintenance to react to unscheduled equipment issues and perform necessary diagnostics and repairs.
Provide preventive & corrective maintenance on automated process.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education & experience requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Robotic, Mechatronics or Electromechanics.
Proficiency communicating in technical English language. Highly developed communications skills.
Minimum 4 years of engineering experience in Welding Process, MIG; TIG manual and automatic equipments.
Possess a thorough knowledge of Robotic integration and engineering Fanuc, ABB, Kuka or other.
Mig Welding and TIG welding experience on fine tuning, adjusted parameters.
Prior experience with software Lincon, Weld Spun, WTC.
Trained and with experience in problem solving methods like Kaizen, Shainin (Red-X), RPS.
Strong Experience Knowledge in Vision Systems. (Cognex, Keyence, and others)
Soft skills: Self-directed, collaborative (teamwork), ownership, sense of urgency/ agile, achiever, leadership & project management skills.
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled