Plan the manufacturing process for injection-molded, painted plastic parts. Develop specifications for secondary painting equipment. Design painting systems and provide support in troubleshooting paint application issues.
• Standardize devices, packaging, and secondary equipment.
• Implement properly documented and tested adjustments to the painting process (PDCA).
• Develop tests to define operating parameters.
• Conduct performance analysis of materials such as paints and components.
• Implement cleaning procedures and routines for equipment and components.
• Organize and complete various tests of coating technologies and technical advancements.
• Organize tests of new materials and new equipment.
• Conduct training and evaluation of assigned personnel.
• Design and provide solutions to problems that may negatively affect operator safety, quality, productivity, and cost.
• Cost-saving projects.
• Responsible for testing new projects, effectively generating and controlling design processes and methods, as well as costs. • Review preliminary designs, making recommendations to reduce costs and improve manufacturing and quality.
• Ensure processes achieve product quality, with the authority to stop production according to the appropriate level of authority to correct problems.
• Define, implement, review, and continuously update workflows between workstations.
• Implement continuous improvement plans and solutions to problems.
• Support the review of engineering changes.
• Interpret and display information derived from installation drawings and assembly plans in CAD systems.
• Implement and introduce innovative equipment and tools to the production line.
• Prepare specification documentation for devices, packaging, and secondary equipment.
• Manage the quotation, acquisition, coordination of installation, validation, and release of new devices, packaging, and secondary equipment, or improvements to existing ones.
• Manage project budgets.
• Participate in cost analysis for the feasibility of new products and/or processes.
• Develop, implement, and monitor new projects and/or products. • Standardize and establish assembly methods and operating processes.
• Manage designs for new machinery and production processes for new projects, and participate in design reviews.
• Review engineering drawings to confirm technical specifications of parts.
Industrial Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or related field
Knowledge of flowcharts, FMEA, and cycle time calculations
Knowledge of plastic part manufacturing processes, primarily water-based and solvent-based paints
Paint robot programmer
Ability to understand robot control systems, PLCs, and robot requirements for paint application
Paint application using a spray booth
Paint Process Engineer
2 to 5 years as a paint specialist, involved in application troubleshooting, design, and implementation