Paint Process Engineer

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Job description

Teijin Automotive Technologies is an innovative and full-service Tier One supplier with a global presence and emphasis in development for lightweight technologies. Teijin Automotive offers employees the opportunity to join a leading edge company within the composite material industry and enjoy the benefits offered by a growing company in North America and internationally.

We are seeking a Paint Process Engineer for our Huntington, Indiana Plant.

Summary:

Responsible for specifying, designing, and implementing robot path programming and paint application.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Improve the design and process control of the paint department operations.

Equipment and control panel upgrades.

Conveyor control integration with paint robots.

Data acquisition improvements for production reporting.

Safety device and logic changes for zoned safety.

Networking and communications upgrades for reliability.

Allen Bradley PLC logic improvements for uptime and throughput increase.

Specify, design, implement, and track the improvement of robot path programming and optimization

of manipulator, applicator, and fluid delivery process.

Equipment specification and procurement, including acting as liaison to builders, customers, and

production for paint process and fluid delivery process.

Coordination of trial runs and quality improvement for the paint process.

Implement cost-reduction improvements for both new and existing equipment/processes.

Technical support to all Production and Engineering operations for improvement programs.

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.

Minimum five years of experience in controls engineering.

Working knowledge of paint department processes and principles.

General knowledge of production control / scheduling systems.

Good analytical / problem-solving skills.

Working knowledge of statistical analysis.

General MS-Office skills, Excel and Access.

Fanuc P-250 experience required.

Able to manage multiple projects and priorities.

Good written and verbal communication skills.

Knowledge of ISO14001 and TS16949 requirements.

Good organizational and time management skills.

Working knowledge of lean manufacturing principles.

Strong knowledge of PLC programming and networking.

Strong knowledge of paint application process.

Basic knowledge of machining / tooling; and electrical / schematics

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