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AUTOMATION TECHNICIAN

  2025-06-05     OPmobility     Greer,SC  
Description:

Hungry for challenges? Join a group with innovation at its heart and contribute to the automotive revolution!

With 38,900 team members located in 28 countries and a 2024 revenue of 11.6 billion, Opmobility is world leader in intelligent exterior systems, clean energy systems and front-end modules.

Through its offer in the exterior body panels market, Opmobility provides customized multi-material solutions with high added value that increasingly integrate functions and enhance safety to reduce vehicle weight and CO2 emissions.

Our ambition? Provide automakers with cutting-edge equipment and solutions to develop tomorrows clean and connected car.

As a responsible company, Opmobility pays particular attention to diversity and equality within its teams and the Group commits to treat all job applications equally.

General Job Duties:


SAFETY


HSE requirements satisfied


Complete all documentation / deployment for Incidents


Drive safety culture within team


QUALITY


Closely monitor quality levels and root cause and correct any maintenance related non-conformances


PRODUCTIVITY


Closely monitor equipment availability levels, perform root cause analysis, and resolve issues


Continually work to understand the customers requirements in terms of quality and delivery


Create and drive actions to cross functional team members


Develop, Implement, and evaluate continuous improvement plans


COMMUNICATION


Communicate openly with colleagues and hierarchy


Escalate properly when equipment is unavailable per guidelines


Immediately communicate with his/her managers in case of any process deviations, problems, incidents


OTHER


To exhibit an objective, fair and professional attitude


To exhibit teamwork skills and actively participate in team activities in a positive working environment.


To demonstrate problem solving skills in a work environment that is striving for continuous improvement.


To follow OPmobility policies and display conduct expected of OPmobility employees as described in the employee handbook.


To follow safety rules of OPmobility and work in a manner that is conducive to maintaining a safe workplace.


To meet and maintain all customer quality standards as well as the standards of OPmobility.


To perform daily cross-functional job assignments as required and per the departments established procedures and work instructions.

Specific Job Duties:


Continuously improve automated and other equipment by developing and implementing plans and projects to revise controls, logic, processes, maintenance plans, mechanical devices, and other equipment components


increase reliability, safety, and/or capacity


reduce overall operational costs


Provide support as needed to the plant maintenance technicians and staff for the operation and maintenance of all automated equipment to the extent that all KPI targets are met


Coordinate all technical activity and maintain accurate records pertaining to automated equipment, including but not restricted to software backups, board revisions, software revisions, ladder logic, documentation and all associated interfaces


Develop, coordinate, and provide training for the plant maintenance team and other personnel regarding the design intent, operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and programming of the automated equipment


Create and communicate work instructions for various tasks as they pertain to the operation, troubleshooting, and upkeep of the automated equipment


Continuously review and consider new technologies as they apply to OPmobility. Present recommendations as to their benefits along with feasibility and justification for such technologies


Provide automation support as required as it applies to all other aspects of the current and any future systems


Work autonomously develop, communicate, and integrate improvements


Occasional travel for training as needed, seldom more than one week at a time.


Perform other duties as directed.


Provide regular progress reports for projects

Skills and Experience:


Allen Bradley PLC equipment Studio 5000 and ControlLogix (hardware, software and ladder logic).


HMI software packages - RS logics, Wonderware 8+, PanelView 32 and Plus, WinCC


Fanuc, Kuka, and ABB robotics


Siemens S7, TIA Portal, WinCC


Field bus: Controlnet, Modbus, Profibus


Integration to injection machines (Husky, Engel, and Kraus)


Allen Bradley, Siemens, Pilz, Keyence, SICK, and Omron safety controls and devices


SEW, Siemens, Eaton, ABB VFDs


PC skills, MS applications


Automotive Assembly, Injection, and Paint a plus


Experience reading hydraulic and pneumatic prints preferred


Must be skilled at reading electrical and electronic schematics


Must have demonstrated project and continuous improvement experience.


Demonstrated exceptional oral and written communication skills required.

As a responsible company, OPmobility pays particular attention to diversity and equality within its teams and the Group commits to treat all job applications equally.

Date: Jun 2, 2025

Location:

Greer-South Carolina, US

Custom Field 5: 384323

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