Staff Engineer Advanced Manufacturing-China

With over 85 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defence, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Learn more at www.kennametal.com. Follow @Kennametal: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Responsibilities

• Conduct on-site automation optimization & mechanical retrofits for production lines, complete small-scale automation improvement, tooling upgrade and process optimization independently.
• Responsible for equipment networking, data collection and communication debugging, ensure stable data transmission between workshop equipment and factory system.
• Build production & OEE dashboard via Power BI, visualize production efficiency, downtime, yield and capacity data to support management decisions
• Continuously implement lean manufacturing improvement, reduce downtime, improve line efficiency and achieve cost-down targets.

Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Mechanical, Electrical or Automation engineering.
• 8 to 10 year’s Automation / smart manufacturing related working experience, prefer Lean / Continuous improvement.
• Hand-on Kepware /OPC router configuration.
• Hand-on experience on Power BI / Workshop dashboard / Python / SQL. prefer MES
• Good verbal and writing in English
• Strong project management preferred.

As part of our core values, Kennametal is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all people. We are an Equal Opportunity employer.