Automation application engineer job description

SEL seeks an Application Engineer - Automation to provide technical support to customers in France and Italy with fluency in both languages! The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge in power systems, software, integration and automation, industrial controls, PLCs, industry protocols such as (IEC-61850, DNP, 60870-5, Modbus, and 61131 programming languages), Ethernet systems, protocol analyzers, and industry SCADA practices. If you are looking for an opportunity to work directly with customers to collaborate and solve real world power system problems, train customers on SEL products, and become recognized as an industry expert in a growing global company, then this position is for you!
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Develop expertise in power system automation, and all related SEL products.Help customers apply SEL products through visits, demonstrations, training courses, email, and telephone contact.Contribute to product specifications, application and testing software, and literature.Participate in SEL marketing and sales activities and industry technical meetings and conferences.Teach in customer on-site and online visits, SEL University courses, and hands-on seminars for customers and SEL personnel.Maintain customer application and quality information, and develop industry relationships.Follow and apply SEL Values, Principles of Operations, and World-Class Manufacturing principles.Understand. Create. Simplify. Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent engineering degree) Three or more years' experience in power systems, industry practices, and software, integration and automation, industrial controls, PLCs, industry protocols (IEC-61850, DNP, 60870-5, Modbus, and 61131 programming languages), Ethernet systems, protocol analyzers, and industry SCADA practices Listens carefully; provides positive, helpful and professional communication to internal and external customers in a clear and concise manner. Demonstrates composure and professionalism under difficult circumstances.Takes on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks. Experiments to find new solutions.Creates a positive and motivating working environment for all.Proven technical training, speaking, writing, and customer service skills in English and French (Italian preferred) Ability to direct daily work activities with general supervision Models high standards of honesty and integrity Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 50% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications
M.S. in Electrical Engineering or advanced application experience in power system automation Experience using SEL products

Location Information
This position can be located in any of our European offices:
United Kingdom (Stafford, Reading, or Leeds) Spain (Madrid) Italy (Milan) Georgia (Tbilisi)

An Award Winning Company
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has earned a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service. This has enabled us to expand within both the electric utility and industrial markets in many different industries, markets, and geographies around the world.

Communication with Applicants
SEL sends an initial e-mail response to all applicants at time of résumé or CV submittal. If you do not receive this communication, please check your SPAM filter and make sure your system is not blocking e-mails from SEL. It is important that you ensure your receipt of this e-mail as SEL may communicate future position updates via e-mail.

SEL is an Equal Opportunity Employer: M/F/Vets/Disabled.

How brave are you? We are a high-tech company providing machine tools and laser technology, and are looking for people who can face new challenges with a fresh mind. As an independent family company, we offer you the freedom and trust to put your brave ideas into practice. With you on board, we would like to power ahead with the digital networking of the manufacturing industry. Our passion and creative drive ensure that we are an innovative force - across the globe at over 70 TRUMPF locations.

Perform essential functions for the Sales, Applications areas in the form of product demonstrations, time studies, and post sales customer applications support. Besides the functional responsibility of applications for customer demos, the Smart Factory Applications Engineer - Automated Cutting will also support the operations team and ensure the equipment to be running properly in the fully connected environment of TRUMPF Chicago.
Principle Duties & Responsibilities

Conduct best in class customer product and production flow demonstrations at TUSC and trade shows to increase product sales

Provide customer application & sales support (phone and remote) utilizing TRUMPF digital solutions as well as post-sales expertise support during the initial production ramp up phase at customer sites

Perform parts analysis for producibility / time studies and produce customer sample parts at the TRUMPF Smart Factory if requested Continuously excel the technology knowledge by participating in training and testing functions of the machine to provide best in class support for our customers with daily production challenges

Be responsible for the assigned technology in the production showroom environment, key performance indicators (i.e., on time delivery, quality, machine utilization) and support operations for real customer parts production

Organize and provide customer product training courses with a focus on programming and operating equipment

Expand knowledge beyond assigned technology and learn integrated cutting, bending and welding solutions and their interaction with digitally connected production processes storage and TRUMPF's Manufacturing Execution

System Consult and demonstrate latest machine technology related solutions for Industry 4.0.

Utilization of all hardware / software / services that pertain to the technology to become a resident expert / go to person for the technology

Perform entire system walkthroughs in the showroom from order to shipping

Collaborate with product centers and other TRUMPF subsidiaries to provide feedback on product development / improvement ideas for existing or new products in the field of automated laser cutting

Travel estimate is 30% as average, with focus in USA, Mexico and Canada

Experience

Sheet metal experience and / or TRUMPF product knowledge a plus.

Experience with CAD, programming and machine tool product knowledge desired.

Knowledge of manufacturing technologies and production software systems.

Excellent communication skills in both written and verbal are required as this position involves extensive contact with customers and sales representatives.

Ability to regularly lift 40 lbs. and willing to operate forklifts / overhead cranes.

Education

Minimum 2-year technical school degree with a solid math background or the suitable equivalent of education and work experience.

TRUMPF is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status, or other protected class.

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.

We're looking for talented engineers who are excited by the challenges of scaling and improving our foundry. Because it touches nearly every part of the foundry, the Automation Team is integral to Ginkgo's vision for the future. The Automation Team is creating integrated robotic workcells, designing processes and building software platforms to operate walk-up robotic systems, improving how data is handled, working with scientists on scaling their processes, and much more.

All the work we do is in service of increasing Ginkgo's capacity in terms of the number of strains engineered and the diversity of species and products we can handle. It's an enormous challenge and we need people who are eager to get started. You'll be working hand in hand with biologists, software developers, and other engineers to co-develop the wetware, hardware, and software infrastructure that underpin the foundry.

To learn more about automation engineering at Ginkgo, take a look at this blog post: Day in the Life: Kristen.
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ResponsibilitiesCoordinate with Automation, software and scientific teams to design, deploy and validate new capabilities and lab automation solutions Coordinate communications with Ginkgo Automation stakeholders, partners and vendors Coordinate with stakeholder teams to perform design reviews and make decisions Set and manage project milestones Work with scientists to translate biological protocols into Ginkgo's custom intent software languages Develop automated experimental workflows for genetic engineering processes, strain cultivation, sample preparation, and multi-omics analysis Write software for custom Ginkgo Foundry operations portal services including protocol definition and data processing services Work with software engineers to address user feature requests Provide technical support to scientific teams Perform technical assessments on new tools and technologies and present to engineering and scientific teams
Required Experience and CapabilitiesBS, MS or PhD in Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering or related fields Practical experience with Biological laboratory operations and workflows Strong communication skills and ability to cross collaborate with diverse scientific teams Strong presentation, training and documentation skills Made use of at least one major programming language, e.g. Python, C#, C/C++, or Java (including best practices for developing and maintaining the code base)
Preferred Experience and CapabilitiesExperience working with scientists or relevant field customers and providing engineering solutions to solve Bioengineering challenges Experience with laboratory automation systems and automated workflow design Practical experience with high-throughput biological processes Experience with workflow automation software and schedulers Experience with performing technical assessment of state-of-the-art technologies Experience working with coding standards, best software practices, version control and code review, unit testing Professional project management experience Experience with “design of experiment” (DoE) Ability to multitask and work on multiple projects at the same time
To learn more about Ginkgo, visit www.ginkgobioworks.com/press/ or check out some curated press below:
What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune)
Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News)
Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: ‘If we try, we can win' (CNBC)
Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe)
Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)
Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire)
The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes)
Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg)
Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters)
Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)

We also feel that it's important to point out the obvious here - there's a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.

We're developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can - and will - impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it's something we'll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it's critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.

It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.