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Automation Engineer
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Designs, engineers, and maintains automation equipment and tooling for manufacturing processes, including PLC programming, robot/cobot implementation, and automatic camera recognition systems.
About this role
Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.
A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.
Job Summary


To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Automation Engineer located in Batam, Indonesia.
Responsible for specifying, designing and maintaining automation equipment, tooling and applications as required to meet specifications.
What a typical day looks like:
- Design, engineer, and modify existing and new moderately-complex automation equipment, tooling and
applications to automate manufacturing processes. - Establish technical manuals, drawings, models, training documentation, preventative maintenance plans and
troubleshooting guides for automated equipment and automated processes. - Understand the machine operating standards, onsequence of wear and tear parts and product defects
- Ensure the uptime of machines through regular preventive maintenance and breakdown maintenance
- Should be willing to learn & enhance the skill in all type of Automation equipment.
- Should prepare why-why evaluation & drive for permanent corrective actions.
- Should be able to give feedback to improve the design of process and equipment.
- Directs daily department activities to maximize equipment utilization and support production needs
- Coordinates maintenance activities with other functional groups such as engineering and operations to
ensure the efficient operation of the departmental function. - Collaborates and offers input to planning, building, and maintaining the Automation framework and
associated processes for new products. - Identifies and drives change to ensure automation effectiveness of existing processes.
- Demonstrates and thorough undersetting of customer requirements, offer suggestions and ideas on how best
to deliver automation solutions.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
- Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or similar field.
- Typically requires at least 1 year of experience in automation engineering in the high technology electronics
industry or related area. - Mechatronics design (experience in implementing Robot/Cobot etc.)
- Automated control (PLC programing, etc)
- Experience in developing devices that include automatic camera recognition.
- Circuit design skills for equipment.
Job Category
Production EngineeringRequired Skills:
Optional Skills:
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