Automation Specialist

This opening is with Howmet Aerospace – a world leader in investment casting of super-alloys, aluminum, and titanium primarily for jet aircraft and industrial gas turbine markets. For more information, visit www.howmet.com. 

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Howmet has challenging opportunities for individuals who are excited to engage with us in growing our business. Join us where you will be part of a dedicated team to manufacture high tech products, safely, accurately, and efficiently, you will perform a variety of hands-on operations in accordance with standardized processes within customer specifications.

Job Summary: This position will be instrumental in identifying new manufacturing technology.  Responsibilities include working with vendors and design teams, follow through during the build phase, and implementation of this equipment in production before handing it off to the manufacturing team.

 Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Project manage new equipment installations to automate and upgrade manufacturing processes.
• Development and maintenance of robotic programs used throughout Hampton’s facilities.
• Design and program management of fixtures used within the robotic processes.
• Support/train manufacturing operators on the use of robotic automation equipment.
• Documentation of all changes to production programs for future correlation to downstream process outputs.
• Determination of key input variables within the automation process to ensure that process is robust against minor variations in casting dimensions.
• Determination/implementation of key output variables to validate that critical functions within a program/piece have completed successfully before running additional product.
• Support Manufacturing/Process owner in cross functional scrap initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited institution required.
• Must be able to provide documentation in the original form establishing both your identity and your employment eligibility in the U.S.
• This position entails access to export-controlled items and employment offers are conditioned upon an applicant's ability to lawfully attain access to such items. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years’ experience in project management in an industrial environment.
• 3+ years' experience programming robotics.
• Experience with Motoman and/or Fanuc robots.
• Offline programming experience.
• Familiarity with fixture design for implementation in a robotic cell is beneficial.
• Prior exposure / knowledge of statistical analysis.
• Green Belt certification in Six Sigma.