Systems Layout Engineer

Position Overview

Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Auburn Hills, MI, USA

Provides conveyor system decision‐making skills for customer projects. This may include supervising Carrier Designers, Drafting, Standards, and other necessary mechanical engineering personnel in order to provide a complete conveyor system layout. Works closely with the Project Manager, Electrical Project Engineer, Field Superintendent, Carrier Designer, and Structural Engineer. Coordinates layout and component development to meet project schedule and manufacturing planning goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Receive design input from the customer and Project Engineer.
• Consolidate and assimilate customer functional requirements with carrier and machinery parameters.
• Plan, develop and modify layout with coordinated input from the structural group to provide efficient use of support steel and screen guard. Safe distances must be maintained to avoid pinch points.
• Review and incorporate carrier clearance studies into the layout to assure safe clearance between carriers, around machinery and equipment and through screen guard. Consideration of guarding, fencing, serviceability, and maintainability is critical.
• Direct the activities of drafters and designers working on the project.
• Develop layouts mindful of installation schedule timing to provide clear installation drawings for field personnel, including demo and/or phasing drawings as needed.
• Assist the Project Engineer in ensuring production releases, shipping schedules, and installation plans are cohesive and complete.
• Develop cycle time studies, chain pulls, data charts, device layouts, sequence of operations documents and other conveyor design output data to ensure compliance with customer specifications and functional requirements.
• Ensure that customer layout drawings meet CAD file development requirements and coordinate cross-reference drawings with other customer suppliers.
• Coordinate with the Controls Engineer on developing dimensioned limit switch layouts showing the location of electrical devices.
• Travel to job sites as required to check field conditions, validate layouts, and assist with installation. Extended travel periods may be necessary.
• Conform to ISO requirements and R&M documentation standards.
• Follow backup procedures and utilize company resources appropriately.
• Demonstrate professionalism as a team player and a willingness to assist others.
• Ensure regular and predictable attendance; extended hours, weekends and/or holidays may be required.
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned to fulfill the company’s business responsibilities and needs.

Required Qualifications

• Technical associate’s degree plus five (5)+ years of related conveyor industry mechanical engineering work experience, or a suitable combination of education and experience.
• Strong technical comprehension skills to read, analyze, and communicate requirements from specifications, drawings, and other design inputs.
• Comprehensive knowledge of AutoCAD to manage layout cross‐references and overall layout development.
• Logical and sequential thinking skills to develop cycle time studies and sequence of operations.
• Knowledge of ASI conveyor system types, their applications, and limitations.
• Ability to work independently.
• Familiarity with competitors’ system design parameters is a plus.
• Good communication skills for effectively directing designers and engineers.
• Strong organizational skills to support the Project Engineer.