Consumer Goods Jobs in Illinois with TN Sponsorship

Description

JOB PURPOSE: Develop, implement & expand in-house capabilities for machine control and process automation/digitalization. Aligning with business strategies; improving customer experience related to quality performance & delivery, factory efficiency and enterprise Value Creation using Smart Technology.

Job Duties

Major Areas of Responsibility/Tasks/Duties

• In general
• Interview internal customers at Manufacturing locations to gain insights on top opportunities to bring digital and automation solutions as value creation.
• Develop solutions specifications, supporting business cases and alternatives to improve operational efficiencies.
• Standardize and scale proven smart technology solutions across network.
• Working with vendor-partners, creating new smart technology systems that are transformational competitive advantage.

• Ensure artifacts are provided, stored, searchable that will allow support/maintenance by others

• Manufacturing Process Automation, specifically

• Develop schematics, cabinet layout, PLC programs, SCADA interfaces, acceptance test criteria (create the RFQ and review the vendor RFPs)
• Work with vendors to create systems (BOTH factory acceptance, on-site acceptance are expected)
• Identify opportunities to bring portions of system development in-house
• SCADA integration with local and corporate systems
• Compliance with industry-standard practices (electrical power distribution, human interaction/safety), work closely with corporate and site Maintenance, Engineering, ESH leaders.

• Working with local associates in Maintenance, ESH, Engineering departments to commission and transfer responsibility for operating and maintaining the system to the local team where possible

• Data Collection Automation/Digitalization, specifically

• Be on the lookout for non-lean behavior (clipboards, white-boards, etc. that contain information that others will eventually transmit manually to other systems for historical display and storage)
• Bring ideas to the team, participate in solution design, problem-solving, etc.
• Create software tools in the SCADA layer to facilitate data collection, rapid problem-detection and problem-resolution

Scope Of Responsibility

Other Scope Data: (Any other specific items that could help indicate the size, nature, and value of this job.) Will be a member of a team that will be making significant changes in the way things are done. A curious, entrepreneurial, collaborative personality will make this easier.

Network Footprint

SWF has many manufacturing, engineering/research/development sites. This role is expected to travel, as needed to the sites, as needed. Likely to be 25% travel, at a minimum, and could expand during implementation/adoption phases to 100%.

IT Ecosystem

There are several toolkits in use to manage the flow of information between end-users, planners, engineering, and manufacturing. As we become more future-proof, the shop-floor systems will need to be upgraded and expanded. Applicants do NOT need to be fluent in all of them, but will be encouraged to simplify, re-factor, etc. as familiarity with those other systems increases.

• Be prepared to participate in cross-functional teams
• Be on the lookout to remove technical debt
• Create artifacts as needed to make sure systems are maintainable

Requirements

• Education

• BS in Electrical, Mechanical Engineering. Mechatronics is a possible path, but will receive more scrutiny

• Work Experience

• 3+ years as an active lead machine designer. If a team-member, but never a lead, that may be a possible path, but will receive more scrutiny for gaps in capabilities

• Familiarity with

• A3 9-step problem-solving or some other formal problem-solving methodology/toolkit

• Certifications

• CSIA (or progress) will be valuable
• Inductive Ignition Gold Certification (or progress)

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Application Development
• PLC (there is no current standard brand)
• PowerAutomate and other workflow-management platforms to create tools that others will use to make their lives simpler (no current standard)
• Inductive Ignition (Edge and Perspective, facility with Jython is expected)

• MS SQL Server database (the database is professionally managed by others)

• Machine Building

• Near-term: classic standalone tools to perform tedious/repeatable/awkward tasks currently performed by associates - Motors, actuators - Vision (2D)

• Future: Cobots to truly facilitate/enhance associates’ capabilities

• Leadership/Interpersonal

• As outlined in the “Other Scope” section, we are making significant changes. We will be successful if these changes are seen as “pull” instead of “push”, the candidate must show a track record of making things significantly better for their customers.
• This is a lean team, and members will often be asked to make presentations, propose solutions, ask for ideas to/from a cross-functional and a wide spectrum of personalities and formal levels of experience. Tolerance, patience and persuasiveness are a must.