Discrete Project Leader (Vision Expertise)

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Discrete Project Leader (Vision Expertise) – E&I NA

The E&I Leveraged Engineering team is seeking a Discrete Project Leader in the North America region for Integrated Operations.  The selected candidate will provide leadership for Automated Process Equipment, which includes supporting a global community, developing technology roadmaps with site engineers, and supporting sites with project execution.  The ideal candidate will have detailed expertise in designing and commissioning of automated equipment for discrete processes.  In addition, this candidate will need to have a concentration in vision system expertise (web-handling & discrete).

Key Responsibilities:
•    Supports the EHS organization to assist with investigations and action items.
•    Collaborate and support of the DuPont S1M machine safety standard for the E&I Integrated Operations organization.  Proactively address machine safety risks by participating in machine risk assessments (MRAs) during design and execution.
•    Ability to collaborate with stakeholders at the site to understand the challenges they face and provide an automated solution.  The solution must be engineered in a way that has minimal impact on the area's ability to produce, and is minimally invasive to our external customer change protocol
•    Develop equipment standards to support the equipment from a leveraged engineering perspective and deploy the technology throughout the organization.
•    Provides technical expertise to support the following:
o    Business-level and site-level Technology Roadmaps
o    Automation Assessments
o    Capital projects including Statements of Work (SOW), Design Reviews, Construction, Acceptance Tests, Commissioning, and Safety Reviews
o    Site Automation Evaluations/Improvements
•    Provide expertise in mechanical layout and equipment design to support projects at the sites.
•    Ability to collaborate with external suppliers to design, fabricate, and qualify equipment.
•    Strong knowledge of electrical design and network architecture.
•    Provide expertise in automated process equipment including robotics, barcoding, and inspection systems (vision and scanning).
•    Ability to collaborate on multiple projects at the same time as a project leader
•    Provides technical expertise for Management of Change, including technical reviewer of site MOC processes. 

Qualifications:
•    8+ years of experience in a discrete manufacturing environment focused on the design and maintenance of automated equipment.
•    Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with coursework concentration involving machine vision and automated inspection.
•    Able to travel to manufacturing sites (average 30% of time)
•    Experience with vision system programming environments including LabVIEW (National Instruments), Cognex, and Keyence
•    Experience with Machine Risk Assessments and Performance Level calculations
•    Experience with CAD/CAM software – SolidWorks preferred
•    Experience with mechanical and/or electrical fabrication technology
•    Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a challenging, diverse team environment in a respectful manner.
•    Demonstration of influential leadership to lead & mentor
•    Strong Interpersonal skills
•    Highly motivated problem solver

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