Senior Automation Engineer

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This position reports to

ASST. MANAGER - APPLICATIONS

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to act as a design authority for an engineering discipline with low to medium complexity. Each day, you will complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects in a cost-effective manner. You will also showcase your expertise by applying basic design thinking/design for excellence concepts in projects. The work model for the role is: #Li-hybrid This role is contributing to the Robotics & Discrete Automation in Ahmedabad. You will be mainly accountable for: • Understanding of Industrial Automation Product in general. (PLC, HMI, VFD And Motion Controller). • Responsible for Application Development and Support for machine at OEM. • Keep the communication channel active with the Reporting Manager, sales team, customer, and the team until the completion of Application. Support sales with technical presentations and discussions with the customers to make them aware about advantages of B&R solutions. • Follow coding standards and guidelines. Responsible for activities like "Project development" starting from specifications till FAT and SAT, "Incremental modifications" for series machines, Machine breakdown support for debug and diagnose, training of customers. • Escalate issues, hurdles, critical points considering defined timeline. Provide regular reports, briefings and reviews as required using the agreed processes. • Periodic interaction with the customer to ensure smooth workflow. Minutes of the meeting with the customer on completion on work. Timely & effective work closure. • Plan for periodic technical upgrades for self after discussions with reporting manager. Work towards promoting organization culture among team. • Plan for improvements of skills of individual based on his own interest, which will support business growth for B&R. Growing indirect sales of B&R's solutions and services at region. • Teamwork is very important for such roles, as full coordination has to achieve between other teams, starting from specifications till closure of projects. Maintain and protect B&R / customer IP.

Qualifications for the role

• Electrical Engineering/ Electronics Engineering/ Instrumentation Engineering/Mechatronics Engineering degree.
• Preferred 2 -5 year's of application development and support experience within Indian business environment, preferably in multinational companies.
• Well-developed understanding of Industrial Automation systems like PLCs, motors, drives, motion control and robotic systems.
• Well-developed understanding of the Industrial IoT market requirements preferred.
• Capacity to establish effective networks in a multicultural setting.
• Excellent communication and negotiating skills, with the ability to influence at all levels and address key issues with maximum integrity and professionalism.
• Fluency in English and Hindi, oral and written. Further local languages are a plus. Flexibility to travel up to 60%.

More about us

B&R Industrial Automation is a manufacturer of automation technology and ABB's global center for machine and factory automation. B&R was founded in 1979 by Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer and has its headquarters in Eggelsberg, Upper Austria. Today, B&R is a leading global solution provider for automating machines and factories and is responsible for machine automation in ABB's Robotics & Discrete Automation division. We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory "It has come to our attention that the name of ABB is being used for asking candidates to make payments for job opportunities (interviews, offers). Please be advised that ABB makes no such requests. All our open positions are made available on our career portal for all fitting the criteria to apply. ABB does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection to recruitment with ABB, even if is claimed that the money is refundable. ABB is not liable for such transactions. For current open positions you can visit our career website https://global.abb/group/en/careers and apply. Please refer to detailed recruitment fraud caution notice using the link https://global.abb/group/en/careers/how-to-apply/fraud-warning"