Senior Automation Controls Engineer

About the position

Archer is looking for candidates with location flexibility, open availability to be trained in San Jose - California and move to Covington - Georgia. Travel flexibility will be necessary, specifically inside of the United States and abroad when participating in Machines Facilities Acceptance Tests or Machines Tryouts and related projects meetings.

Responsibilities

• Support manufacturing equipment on the in-house controls team to ensure smooth operation and maximum uptime of production.
• Participate in first piece builds to characterize and develop both product and process critical parameters to control the manufacturing process.
• Develop documentation to help ensure operator work standardization during early equipment bring-up.
• Manage the procurement, construction, acceptance, and deployment of new production/test equipment.
• Manage integrators during specification, design, buyoff, installation, and ramp of Electric Engine production/test equipment.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams including IT, Production Engineering, EH&S, Quality, Operations, and Product Design regularly.
• Drive actions to maintain or improve equipment performance as measured by product quality, cycle time, and machine availability.
• Develop process inputs to MES and SCADA production systems and launch the MES platform with production equipment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, Mechatronic Engineering, or equivalent & related practical experience.
• 10+ years related experience in medium to high volume manufacturing.
• Direct experience programming and troubleshooting industrial automation.
• Experience commissioning and improving Equipment.
• A record of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) improvement.
• Preventative and Predictive Maintenance through MES algorithms.
• Strong hands-on and problem solving aptitude.
• Ability and drive to learn systems quickly.
• Experience developing production lines from prototype to production.
• Able to utilize structured problem solving techniques such as DMAIC, Ishikawa, Five Why (5W) or Eight Disciplines (8D).
• Proficiency using Beckoff, Allen Bradley, and Siemens PLC's.
• Expertise with HMI and SCADA based systems such as Ignition.
• Excellent communicator, both in presentations and written reports.
• Able to maintain organization and focus in a highly dynamic environment.
• Evidence of exceptional ability.
• Ability to travel 20% of the time, both domestically and internationally.

Nice-to-haves

• Prior internships or full-time experience in Aerospace manufacturing engineering or similar role. (Automotive experience also accepted)
• Relevant test engineering experience with Veristand, Python, etc.
• Electric motor manufacturing experience.
• Experience with PLM and ERP software integrations.

Benefits

• Archer is committed to provide a safe workplace and a safe aircraft.
• Employment in safety sensitive positions is contingent on successful passage of a background check and is subject to pre-employment and random drug screening.
• Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs.