Clow Valve - MCF Automation Engineer
- Location
- Oskaloosa, IA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Education
- Associate degree
- Listed
- 31 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- PLC programming
- robot integration
- blueprint reading
- trigonometry
- industrial automation
Also useful
- CAD/CAM
- Fanuc robots
- metallurgy
About the role
Purpose: The Automation Engineer provides in-house capability of designing, testing, and improving automated system solutions in various mechanical and digital environments by optimizing processes and creating a stable production environment. Key Performance Indicators: Sustainability: Implement two major or four minor continuous improvements/automation optimizations per year.
Customer Experience: Provide one automation training per month. Leadership: Complete two continuous education activities per year. Core Functions of Position: Automation (75%): Cultivate and foster trusting relationships across the organization to cohesively implement automation improvements.
Diligently analyze processes, tooling, and metrics to provide possible solutions to production inefficiencies, tooling cost reductions, and machine usability efficiency. Review, update, and create automation processes for the production floor that ensure maximum productivity and quality products. Training (15%): Administer and manage automation training to ensure team members are competent and capable robot operators.
Cohesively work with supervisors to provide thorough training to all machinists, providing them with a full understanding of automation and best practice expectations. Continuous Education (10%): Consistently seek learning on new automation and robotic technology.
Stay abreast of technological advancements and actively seek opportunities for improvement within the organization and professionally by researching new technologies, processes, and tooling.
Qualifications & Requirements
Technical Skills: Required: Strong programming skills, Automation experience, PLC experience, Ability to read and decipher electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic blueprints, Standard model interpretation, Machine to Robot Integration experience, Strong mathematical aptitude (Trigonometry and Geometry) Preferred: CAD/CAM experience, Fanuc Robot experience, Metallurgical knowledge.
Education & Experience: Required: An associate degree in Automation (Programming, Robotics, Machine Technology) and 4 years of advanced manufacturing experience or 6 years of advanced manufacturing experience. Preferred: Four-year Engineering degree (Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical) and 2 years advanced manufacturing experience.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
About the Company
The Oskaloosa plants include iron and brass foundries, a machine shop, assembly, finished goods warehousing, shipping and administrative offices. We are proud to continue our history of offering manufactured products that comply with "Made in the USA" requirements.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
McWane is a Federal VEVRAA contractor, and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices.
McWane will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran or service member status, marital status, citizenship status (In IL - sex, including same sex, ancestry, order of protection status, physical or mental disability, military status, pregnancy, unfavorable discharge status, genetic information), (In IA - gender identity), (In CA- gender identity or expression, and genetic information) or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.
From McWane, Inc.'s careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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