Automation Engineer - Intra-logistical

Would you like to be responsible for the installation and oversight of an automated intra-logistical warehouse system for the new LEGO manufacturing site?

The Automation Engineer - Intra-logistical will be responsible for managing the automated equipment in the Materials Warehouse area. This will include conveyors, elevators, shuttle cars, robots, palletizers, lidders, and supporting equipment.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure that the LEGO Production team meets the reliability requirements of the company and product quality through maintaining the automation of the equipment (preventative, predictive, corrective maintenance).
• Establish detail maintenance work instructions, user documentations, and trouble-shooting experience.
• Conduct analysis and investigations on equipment failures that significantly affect product quality, equipment uptime and packing capacity.
• Superuser for platforms like PLC programming, HMI, COMBI 2.0 ERP, SAP and WMS.
• Develop a standardized approach for robots, programming standards, safety protocols, operator interface, following standard and global implementations.
• Root Cause Analysis of errors to propose and implement corrective/preventive actions in the different Automated Warehouse operations.
• Lead the engineering and technical initiatives to solve the opportunities in safety, quality, delivery, cost areas.
• Generate Power BI reports aligned with capacity of the equipment.
• Perform and drive Risk and opportunity assessment of equipment.
• Be responsible for equipment life cycle.
• Mapping and standardization of the critical parameters of equipment.
• Continuous improvement of machinery and processes.
• Electronically standardize and update of software of machinery to align with supplier and operation needs.

Play your part in our team succeeding
The Warehouse department is responsible for receiving, storing, and delivering to production all productive material needed in the site to fulfill customer orders as planned. The Automation Engineer will be responsible for overseeing the automated equipment in the Materials Warehouse area. Will be responsible for overseeing the programming of the equipment in the new manufacturing site.

Do you have what it takes?

• Bachelors degree in engineering or equivalent preferred.
• Proficient work experience in PLC programming. Prefer experience with Allen Bradley or Siemens.
• Working experience with intra-logistical systems, automatic retrieval systems, palletizers, rolling conveyors, lidders and/or palletizers.
• Proven experience with WMS.

Additional

• Global travel - This position will train at our site in Mexico for 2 weeks upon hire and then 2 weeks before the new manufacturing site starts production.
• This position will work onsite 5 days a week.
• Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

Join the LEGO team!

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $84,674.00 - $127,010.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme

Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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