Maintenance – Robot Technician

Job Responsibilities

• To exhibit an objective, fair and professional attitude that exemplifies the principles outlined in The Magna Employee’s Charter to maintain a positive and productive workplace.
• To exhibit teamwork skills and actively participate in team activities in a positive working environment.
• To demonstrate problem solving skills in a work environment that is striving for continuous improvement.
• To follow Decostar policies and display conduct expected of Decostar employees as described in the employee handbook.
• To follow safety rules of Decostar and work in a manner that is conducive to maintaining a safe and healthful workplace.
• To meet and maintain all customer quality standards as well as the standards of Decostar.
• To perform daily cross-functional job assignments as required and per the department’s established procedures and work instructions.
• To understand and maintain your responsibility for health and safety in the workplace.
• To report any unsafe conditions immediately, including injuries, accidents, illnesses, and property damage.
• To cooperate with OSHA/State OSHA inspectors.
• To make sure you are trained on any machinery or equipment that you are to use.
• To no use, operate or make changes to any equipment or machinery that may endanger any persons, including yourself.

Specific Job Duties

• Support process and maintenance activities consistent with departmental expectations and goals.
• Identify, communicate and document any difficulties relating to the product, process and/or quality system as per Decostar’s IATF 16949 directives.
• Initiate, recommend or provide solutions to prevent the occurrence of any non-conformities relating to the product, process and/or quality system through designated channels.
• Verify implementation and effectiveness of recommended solutions.
• Participate in control plan updates as per IATF 16949 protocol.
• Develop, implement, verify and document parameter settings for all application equipment to maintain the specified quality standards detailed in the control plans of all products.
• Work with equipment suppliers to accurately collect application and performance data on new technology tested in the process.
• Complete all maintenance as directed in the total productive maintenance plan to ensure optimum performance of the equipment.
• Maintain organized daily logs of all maintenance activities, process parameter data and verification records.
• Actively participate in continuous improvement teams as assigned by the Maintenance manager.
• Must be able to work any shift, weekends and overtime.
• Train personnel as directed by the department leadership in the implementation of the specified preventative maintenance methods in accordance to the control plans established.
• Report all accidents, injuries, and near misses immediately.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the department leadership.

Educational Requirements

• Associate’s Degree in a related and technical field of study required.
• Six years work related experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Work experience combined with current schooling towards degree will be considered.
• Must be computer literate on the Windows platform.

Skills And Experience

• Ability to operate robot teach pendants and perform basic robot jogging, mastering checks, program selection, and fault recovery.
• Knowledge of robot safety procedures including lockout/tagout, teach mode safety, enabling devices, restricted space entry, and robot cell interlocks.
• Experience with robot path touch-up, position verification, tool center point checks, and program adjustment under approved process controls.
• Knowledge of paint robot systems, including Rotary and conventional atomizers, color changers, dump valves, trigger signals, shape air, turbine air, high voltage, and fluid delivery.
• Experience rebuilding and servicing fluid delivery components, including pumps, regulators, valves, fittings, hoses, filters, color changers, dump valves, trigger valves, and atomizer-related fluid components.
• Experience identifying and resolving robot alarms related to motion, servo faults, overtravel, collision detection, safety circuits, communication, and process equipment.
• Knowledge of robot calibration, mastering, payload checks, user frames, tool frames, and axis limit verification.
• Experience with robot backup and restore procedures, program version control, and documenting robot parameter changes.
• Familiarity with communication protocols between robots, PLCs, HMIs, conveyor tracking, applicators, and safety devices.
• Experience using electrical test equipment such as multimeters, megohmmeters and clamp meters.
• Experience supporting automated paint booth start-up, shutdown, purge, color change, and applicator verification routines.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on robot downtime and recommending corrective actions to improve uptime, repeatability, and process stability.
• Experience coordinating with robot OEMs, applicator suppliers, controls engineers, maintenance, and production teams during troubleshooting and equipment improvements.

Physical Requirements

• This position requires a person to have the ability to perform work while standing or walking a minimum of eight (8) hours a day, the ability to lift up to 20 pounds on a frequent basis and up to 50 pounds on an occasional basis, and the ability to perform work that is below the knees and above the shoulders on an occasional basis.
• Ability to climb stairs is necessary.
• Ability to wear a respirator is necessary.
• Good vision at a close distance is required.

Training Requirements

• You will receive training to perform your job on an on-going basis concurrent with Decostar business operations.
• Training areas will include safety, quality, continuous improvement and other job specific training that is determined to be an essential part of your job and Decostar business operations.

Worker Type

• Regular / Permanent

Group

• Magna Exteriors