Senior Automation Engineer

Job Summary

The ideal candidate will have strong leadership and interpersonal skills and will bring expertise in automation tools with a commitment to customer focus, quality, and innovation. This person will impact the organization by being a recognized leader and proactive problem solver, while showing the enthusiasm for the company. 

The Senior Automation Engineer will report to the Engineering Team Leader.
This position is opened for our office in Chakan (India), mainly focused on Ice Cream Application Projects inside Business Stream Ice Cream.

You will be required to travel to client sites in up to 40% of your time for meeting & commissioning.
 

What you will do

• Be overall project responsible for automation.

• As automation engineer, doing hands on work – HW design, PLC&HMI programming, testing, commissioning- during the project where it is required. 

• Coordinate work with the project team, such like sales, project management, engineering, assembling, Sum.

• Ensure all projects are delivered in a timely manner, in line with the project plan, the budget and cost constraints while following the Tetra Pak quality system. 

• Report to the Project Manager for project & program related tasks including budget control, progress reports & forecasting.

• Provide support during pre-project and sales phases.

• Create Functional Specifications and operation manual.

• Participate in design reviews and safety risk assessments.

• Testing and commissioning of hardware and software at customer site, (inter) national, for a short or long period of time.

• Perform lessons learned and providing input to improvement or development of processes, templates, and tools.

We believe you have

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or Automation Engineering.

• At least 5 years of experience in a similar role preferably in an international environment

• Good knowledge and proven understanding of equipment and processes within the food industry, preferably in packaging industry.

• Good knowledge in PLC (Rockwell is mandatory) programming and commissioning.

• Working knowledge of ISA-S88 preferred.

• Good understanding on motion control systems (Rockwell Kinetix preferred).

• Knowledge on functional safety, machine safety, and EMC.

• Be able to use one of popular electrical design software (AutoCAD, E-plan P8)

• Demonstrate technical skills, understanding in installation needs and customer operations at site.

• Fluent in English in both verbal and in writing

• Result oriented approach, with aim for improvement.

• Both technical and commercial approach with a structured and independent way of working