Jesse Z.

Experience

• Automation Engineer MSA-Mine Safety Appliances · Full-time Aug 2022 – Present 3 yrs 6 mos Cranberry, PA, United States I am a Automation Manufacturing Engineer. Responsible for design, installation, and sustaining of all manufacturing systems. This includes mechanical design, electrical design, both mechanical and electrical drawings, documentation, budgeting, BOM's, sourcing, procurement, installation and debug, troubleshooting, and sustaining the system after installation. The skills required include electrical design, mechanical design, 3D modeling, electrical panel design and wiring, PLC programming, control system programming, robotics programming, vision system programming and integration. On-going continuous improvement for current system and innovation for new systems. Increasing productivity, efficiency, quality, reducing downtime, increasing reliability, throughput, reducing cost, etc. From idea to installation and support after. Anything from single fixtures, single benchtop solutions, to full systems, or whole assembly lines.
• Senior Process Automation Engineer Polyconcept North America · Full-time Aug 2021 – Aug 2022 1 yrs New Kensington, PA, United States Senior automation team lead for all manufacturing engineering initiatives. Create new automated systems to reduce a heavy labor focused manufacturing environment. From concept to build and install. Continued support thereafter. This company had minimal to no automation and was looking to innovate and compete with the industry standard for automating manufacturing. The day to day would include motion system integration and programming, PLC programming, control system design and installation, electrical design and field wiring, mechanical design and CAD work.
• Automation Engineer Bayer Healthcare · Full-time Jun 2018 – Aug 2021 3 yrs 2 mos Indianola, PA, United States Responsible for all test and process automation systems in the R&D Lab Services dept. This included software programming, electrical, and mechanical automation. Design and building of test fixtures for V&V testing on medical devices. Reducing task execution time, labor, and increased data integrity. I took over the role of the robotics lab later in my time here. I became a certified ABB robot programmer and integrated robotics and vision systems into test automation systems. This entailed electrical design, control system design, PLC programming, robotics programming, vision programming, and motion control systems. I generated roadmaps for future potential automation engineering opportunities.
• Manufacturing Fabrication Engineer American Textile Company · Full-time Jun 2012 – May 2018 5 yrs 11 mos Duquesne, PA, United States Designed, fabricated, and installed all textile machinery and equipment. This includes designing new single pieces of equipment to designing entire assembly lines. I would create the design, the BOM, the budget, installation plan, preventive maintenance, and complete the actual installation, debug, and validation. I was responsible for all the electrical design and documentation, 3D models and mechanical drawings, as well as the control system and panel layout. I wrote all the PLC programming software code and sustained all parts of manufacturing equipment. Lead teams of mechanics for production installations. Credited with patent of a fiber distribution machine.