GTEC Automation Engineering

GTEC Automation Engineering

The GTEC Automation Engineering role is at the forefront of Flowserve's efforts to develop and deploy Industry 4.0 and related technologies across our manufacturing footprint in the Americas. This role will be part of the team that helps Flowserve to advance our manufacturing technology through the deployment of digital factory tools and process and materials handling automation. Candidate will be involved in helping sites with adoption and deployment of enterprise CNC programming tools and practices, design and implementation of automated product assembly, programming of PLC's and cobots, automated materials handling and similar activities as requested by the Platform Operations leaders. The successful candidate will be an effective change agent, able to collaborate well with site personnel to understand their current practices and to drive adoption of best practices.

The position will be located at the GTEC Laguna in Torreon location.

This position is used to provide manufacturing engineering resources to Flowserve sites to help to drive automation driven improvements to manufacturing systems and processes, in alignment with business priorities. This role will provide support as needed to Flowserve manufacturing sites across the Americas including on-site work for extended periods (1 to 2 months).

Principal Accountabilities

• Contribute to the Flowserve safety culture while working at assigned sites, ensuring personal and plant safety through full compliance with Flowserve policies and procedures.
• Travel to Flowserve Americas manufacturing sites as requested by the site leadership support of the deployment of the digital thread content needed to facilitate automation as an integral part of a digital factory.
• Collaborate with site Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement team members to perform root cause analyses at sites to help to identify underlying issues contributing to performance gaps of manufacturing systems.
• Assist in the ideation, design and development of automation based machining and assembly workcells. Analyze, and where possible, implement automated materials handling and line replenishment systems.
• Lead projects for machine setup reduction and implement poka-yoke opportunities where needed.
• Help sites to set-up and operate data collection systems to gather data necessary for critical manufacturing performance metrics to maximize utilization of Flowserve capacity.
• Assist sites with the deployment and adoption of enterprise CNC programming tools and associated processes to manage CNC programs.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering or similar engineering or technical manufacturing degree with minimum 5 years of industrial experience.
• Effective change management skills with the ability to drive acceptance and sustained adoption of enterprise best practices across all levels of the organization
• Good communication and organizational skills with the ability to work well with all levels of employees and internal departments in a diverse environment.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration and decision-making skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Fluent in English, both conversational and written.
• Able to travel to Flowserve sites in the Americas for extended periods of 1 to 2 months.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Ability to handle sensitive issues, navigate tricky conflicts using fact-based decision making to objectively eliminate workplace conflicts and boost the teams morale.
• Lean certification (green belt or black belt)
• Has understanding and hands on experience in the following:
• Enterprise ERP systems, SAP S4/Hana, Great Plains or Oracle.
• Computer-Aided-Manufacturing software, preferably Esprit.
• Computer-Aided-Engineering software, preferably Solidworks to support facility layouts and Model based design to enable feature based machining.
• Tooling and setup selection for CNC machining centers – milling and turning.
• Allen Bradley or similar PLC controls programming experience.
• Fanuc or similar robot / cobot programming experience and end effector design and selection.
• Experience using vision systems for picking and mistake proofing operations.
• Material conveyance experience using feeders, conveyors and AGV's.
• Advanced project management tools, methods and applications.
• Machining and assembly workcell design and layout.
• Engineering documentation and geometric dimensions and tolerancing (GD&T).
• Exposure to Time/Methods Study Techniques (activity analysis).