Robotics Engineer at Alstom

Purpose of the Job:

• Conduct planned and proactive maintenance on equipment to deter failures.
• Identify and implement improvement projects to optimise welding robot cycle times

Key responsibilities include the following:

• Make minor adjustments on existing robot welding programs as required.
• Review and improve robotic process and sequence to improve cycle times
• Provide daily production support for robotic welding cells.
• Perform robot manual welding when required
• Check completed parts to ensure compliance with required weld quality acceptance criteria.
• Modify existing robot programs to improve robot reliability, maintainability, and/or performance.
• Conduct root cause analysis for all robot downtimes and failures
• Work with equipment OEM to improve robotic cells and address operational issues
• Identify and implement opportunities for predictive maintenance on installed robots
• Maintain robot welding guns by completing scheduled planned maintenance
• Follow ISO procedures and standards to improve work processes and safety within robot cells.
• Continuous improvement of robotic station efficiencies through correction of design deficiencies
• Improve robotic station’s process stability

Requirements:

• N. Diploma or B. Degree in Automation / Instrumentation / Electro-Mechanical Eng / Mechatronics or similar.
• Three years’ experience on industrial robotic operation, programming, troubleshooting and maintenance
• Three years hands-on experience with Yaskawa Motoman robots
• Three years’ experience programming Yaskawa controllers
• Three year working experience on Yaskawa DX200 controllers
• Working knowledge of Siemens S7 PLC
• Knowledge of IGM robots and K6 UI will be a plus
• General understanding of welding timers will be an added advantage
• Familiarity with global Industrial Robot standards and specifications