Manufacturing Engineer - Automation

Tasks

• Serve as Business Area technical authority for new technologies investment, ensuring consistent standards and capability across all sites.
• Provide expert guidance on manufacturing equipment technologies, materials, and assembly processes, including escalation and problem-solving support.
• Define and optimize equipment concepts, Automation, tooling, and layouts to meet safety, quality, cost, scalability, and capability targets.
• Support investment initiatives for capital asset selection to manufacture rubber products.
• Support plants with the cost saving calculation and investment payback justification.
• Lead improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Deploy and govern manufacturing best practices and technical standards to ensure consistency and long-term equipment robustness, with global teams and under global hose manufacturing standards.
• Seek for newer technologies for hose manufacturing with a market perspective and global new trends. Check also existing CT group technologies as benchmarking.
• Monitor and report support ME leadership with reviewing post-launch manufacturing performance to ensure stable serial production and compliance with industrialization standards.
• Support ME leadership with monitoring of KPIs for equipment performance and efficiency and profitability gains.
• Identify and assess industrialization equipment risks and coordinate mitigation actions with plant teams.
• Analyze trends and deviations to prevent recurrence and drive proactive improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree: in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Manufacturing, or a related engineering or science fields
• 5+ years of extensive experience in Manufacturing Engineering, with deep expertise in equipment Automation, robotics, vision systems, autonomous material handling equipment, remote control and supervisory system.
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience in rubber and plastic production processes and ramp-up projects.
• Deep expertise in specifying and executing projects in automation, integration and supplier and automation vendors administration.
• 20 – 40 % travel availability
• Proficient in English is mandatory