Sr Mechanical Engineer - Automation

Sustainability, plastic pollution, and climate change have never been more at the forefront of our world as they are today.

At Ranpak, sustainability has been in our DNA since our founding in 1972. Ranpak’s goal then was to create the first environmentally responsible system to protect products during shipment and today, our mission remains the same: To deliver sustainable packaging solutions that help improve supply chain performance and costs, reduce environmental impact, and support a variety of growing business needs globally. The development and improvement of materials, technologies (such as automation) and total solution systems have earned Ranpak a reputation as an innovative leader in eCommerce and industrial supply chain solutions.

Ranpak’s customers span across a variety of industries including automotive parts, electronics, eCommerce, machinery and home goods. Our customers include Amazon, IKEA, Sephora, Misfit Market and BMW.

Ranpak’s corporate headquarters are in Concord Township, Ohio with European headquarters in Eygelshoven, the Netherlands and Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore City, Singapore, respectively. Additionally, a new state-of-the-art building opened in Shelton, CT.

Ranpak Holdings Corp. is a New York Stock Exchange listed company (NYSE: PACK).

Summary

Design and development of paper converting machinery, automation products and related equipment. Provides technical leadership during NPI (new product introduction), product commercialization and production start-up of new products. This includes offshore sourced equipment. Supports sales at customers locations during installation of new equipment and field issue resolution.

• Design, development and test of the new generation of automation products.
• Perform root-cause analysis and proactively come up with improvement proposals that have an impact in the short and long term (continuous improvement).
• Ability to bring innovative new ideas & technologies and implement them into projects.
• Participates in design projects, customized products, optimizing existing products
• Drawing up structured development plans, documentation, drawings and calculations
• Support the commercialization of new products
• Maintain regular contacts with both internal / external customers and suppliers. Attend customer meetings and address technical challenges.
• Responsible for technical execution and proactively thinks about issues and takes steps to address technical topics before becoming issues. Aligns with project timeline.
• Administration, sharing and reporting of activities related to assigned project (technical reviews, design review, etc.)
• Mechanical design of simple to complex equipment including prototypes, evaluation, testing, installation, and troubleshooting. Hands-on approach to problem-solving.
• Excellent networking skills and building bridges with global teams.
• Improvement of processes in order to gain efficiency, quality, and effectiveness.
• Drive standardization of technologies
• Ability to generate and select between concepts (Analysis of Alternatives approach)
• Supports NPI program manager from technical aspect
• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders, from Marketing to Sales to Operations to R&D, Engineering in global team setting.
• Mentor senior and junior engr. Delegates technical tasks. Challenge and grow indirect reports. Check work completed by other engineers.
• Raises concerns to sr. level and seeks support to mitigate issues
• Create and support technical/design requirements document and capture customer requirements
• Support creation of technical manuals, engineering BOM, spare parts list, etc.
• Use of 2D and 3D software to generate complete machine assembly drawings and detailed components. Responsible for design concept and layout using SolidWorks and AutoCAD.
• Develop test plans, operation manuals, and other pertinent documentation.
• Performs engineering design calculations and participates in product design decisions. Makes all mechanical component selections. Must have experience with material selection, manufacturing techniques and design for manufacturability.
• Ability to select and install automation components such as servomotor, electric actuator, safety switch, etc.
• Understanding of automation equipment performance metrics such as availability, OEE - Overall equipment effectiveness, etc.
• Provides technical leadership to Drafters to develop detailed drawings from layouts.
  
  

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering is required
• At least 8 years of relevant work experience in an R&D or engineering position within a technical work environment
• Technical lead for highly complicated Sales/NPI projects & Level 3/4 CP’s
• SolidWorks CAD experience is required (at least 2 years with modeling, print creation and PDM/PLM)
• At least 6 years of design and automation experience (machine building experience preferred).
• Ability to manage multiple projects
• Prefer SAP system experience
• Ability to provide technical leadership to indirect reports.
• Ability to divide project work scope among team members and ensure completion by deadlines
• Ability to mitigate project hurdles and communicate to senior (leadership) stakeholders including external customers
• A broad interest, varying from equipment assembly to process technology
• A driven personality who persists even when it becomes difficult and can work independently
• Willing to travel up to 20% of the time.
• Good team member and comfortable working with global teams
• Good interpersonal skills-maturity, poise and engineering approach.