Automation Technician

Description Shift: 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday-Friday

Why work at Multivac? If you are looking for a company who values its employees, promotes from within, and offers an extremely generous benefit program, including the following:

• Employee Referral Program
• Student Debt Assistance Program - Get $100 paid directly to your loan servicer each month for eligible student loans. Available after 6 months of continuous employment
• Financial Planning Reimbursement - Multivac will reimburse associates up to $150 annually for certain financial planning services obtained
• Paid Maternity and Parental leave - birth mothers up to 10 weeks off and other parents up to 2 weeks of paid time off
• VTO - Multivac provides immediate use of volunteer time off
• Wedding day off, voting leave, new baby gift, professional memberships
• Aflac Supplemental benefits
• State of the Art facility, clean work environment, and onsite cafeteria
• Generous 401k match with immediate 100% vested Employer contributions

Summary This position requires working with minimal supervision to perform assembly, testing, commissioning of tooling, machine sub-assemblies, and machines and equipment for SAG. This position requires strong knowledge of packaging machine functions, diagnostics, and troubleshooting, package criteria, and end customer needs.

Time Utilization Normal business hours are 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Schedule needs to be flexible to accommodate internal and external customers schedules as overtime may be required. This position may travel up to 5% of the time.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include the following. Other duties to support manufacturing and production may be assigned:

• Follows the directives from the supervisor to execute the manufacturing production schedule and to fulfill the order requirements of quality machines at the agreed-upon due date.
• Hands-on Commissioning and Final Assembly of all Automation-related equipment, troubleshooting, and Quality control checks.
• Schedule ownership for all assigned activities in related work centers, managing daily to ensure material are on schedule to meet the agreed-upon schedule.
• Order processing in SAP for releasing, printing, confirming, and inventory movements for all production orders and projects assigned.
• Diagnoses, troubleshoots, repairs, and operates machines and equipment in all 3 major departments of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic.
• Handles absorption tracking for yourself, meeting the efficiency your supervisor has set.
• Handles a project from a BOM to shipping with little direction or assistance, meeting quality standards, budgets in the agreed-upon time.
• Adheres to established work schedules, order priorities, and practices efficient time management to achieve these detailed schedule goals.
• Performs complex troubleshooting and diagnostics of equipment to determine the required project scope of work relating to machinery.
• Confirms the form, fit, and function of the project and performs early "risk analysis" to determine if the BOM components appear complete as needed. Provides immediate feedback to the supervisor if risks are detected.
• Performs all manufacturing requirements associated with mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, vacuum, safety programming components. Assembles and installs physical components into quality assemblies many times without the benefit of written assembly instructions.
• Performs remanufacturing activities to return machines and components back to OEM specifications.
• Recommends changes as needed to the configuration of production items. Performs modifications when approved by supervisor. Confirms items not on the provided BOM are attached to production orders for inventory relief.
• Confirms all floor work is performed to correct standards of performance, alignment, seals, tensioning, attaching, marking, testing, safety documentation, and component integrity.
• Confirms machines are prepared for customer shipment by confirming all required components, i.e., gaskets, spares, manuals, tool boxes, film, etc. are present and accounted for. Documents outbound items by photographing prior to transfer.
• Confirms documents verifying quality assurance performance testing settings, risk areas, exceptions are filled out, sent to the proper contacts, and filed for future reference.
• Informs the supervisor in advance of needed in/out movement of machines or product.
• Provides up-front detail information to supervisor associated with machines scheduled for shipment.
• Provides item identification of removed items needing storage or disposal.
• Maintains a safe, clean, and organized work environment.
• Implements the management directives associated with policies, goals, and procedures.
• Performs additional production activities as required by the supervisor.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education: High school diploma and six years field service, packaging, maintenance, manufacturing, or related experience, or high school diploma and four years experience as a MULTIVAC Production Tech III or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A high working skill knowledge of electrical, pneumatic, mechanical, and machine shop activities is required.
• Mechanical and engineering aptitude is needed.
• Must have the ability to respond and adjust to high stress environments and maintain professionalism in dealing with co-workers.
• Needs to be a self-starter and have the ability to work in unsupervised settings.
• Possesses the ability to work in a team and individual environment, motivation to achieve success, and ability to meet customer deadlines in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing priorities.
• A history of successful customer service experience is a plus.
• Math Ability: Speed and feed calculations, Metric and Standard calculations, basic and advanced measuring techniques. Ability to calculate dimensions, percentages, area, and volume. Must be able to measure both English and Metric dimensions. Knowledge of resources available to complete these tasks.
• Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel, inventory software, manufacturing software, and ERP systems. CADCAM system experience is a plus. Manufacturing experience with SAP is a plus.
• Certificates and Licenses: Ability to obtain a passport for travel as required by position. APICS or equivalent body of knowledge concerning inventory management preferred.
• Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.