Senior Factory Automation Engineer (TX)

Dandy is transforming the massive and antiquated dental industry—an industry worth over $200B. Backed by some of the world’s leading venture capital firms, we’re on an ambitious mission to simplify and modernize every function of the dental practice through technology. As we expand our reach globally, Dandy is building the operating system for dental offices around the world—empowering clinicians and their teams with technology, innovation, and world-class support to achieve more for their practices, their people, and their patients.

THIS ROLE IS BASED IN CARROLLTON, DALLAS AND PROVIDES RELOCATION**

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Factory Automation Engineer to join our rapidly growing, venture-backed company. This is a high-impact, challenging role dedicated to co-engineering and maintaining novel, high-throughput manufacturing lines that must also deliver highly custom products—a demanding technical balancing act. You will have massive influence. As an early team member, you will define and execute how we build out our factories, architect our proprietary automation, and establish systems to support aggressive growth targets. This is a hard job that requires excellence at the intersection of shop-floor operations and cutting-edge tech. Our complex robotic production lines feature a mix of traditional automation and processes that have never been created before—you will be the subject matter expert on these machines.

You will be thrown into a high-growth, rapid-change environment where you will learn quickly, working alongside a team of smart, driven individuals. Your primary mission is guaranteeing the reliability and quality required for a 24/7 production schedule by defining best practices, developing robust mitigation plans, and setting up night/weekend shifts to operate near-autonomously.

What You'll Do

• Participate in design reviews for automated equipment development

• Lead all factory integration activities required to receive new, automated equipment. Support all new equipment testing and qualification.

• Become an equipment owner and expert. Responsible for sustaining equipment performance and continuous improvement

• Monitor equipment health and use data to identify root cause and corrective actions (RCCA)

• Lead systematic, cross-functional efforts to sustain high Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE)

• Evaluate processing conditions and resultant material properties and troubleshoot as necessary utilizing SPC techniques

• Assume full responsibility for managing process conditions to meet Process Control Document requirements and mechanical and physical properties

• Implementation and operation of mechanical and electromechanical systems

• Actively pursue and direct process improvements to improve performance, cost, etc

• Solve problems using cross-functional teams with tools such as DMAIC and Design of Experiments (DOE)

• Develop and implement processing conditions for new equipment and new materials

• Develop programs that assist manufacturing in consistent continuous improvement effort

• Manage qualification efforts required for new equipment, processes, and materials

• Provide training as necessary to operations personnel

• Provide timely disposition of nonconforming product and support root cause and corrective action activities

• Monitor and regularly report out on line yield and efficiency achievements

• Investigate quality non-conformances, recommend and/or help implement corrective actions

• Participate in cross-functional teams to complete safety, quality or continuous improvement action items for assigned process area(s)

• Interface with customers and support as needed

• Ensure compliance with Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security policies

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's Degree – Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, or Materials Engineering from a four-year university

• Minimum of six years of experience as a Manufacturing or Process Engineer, or similar role

• Equipment ownership from enablement through long-term sustainability

• Proven ability to evaluate, develop and manage process parameters in the manufacture of products

• Demonstrated ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

• Demonstrated ability to interpret extensive abstract and concrete variables

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization

• Current computer literacy including