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Hands-on robotic programming experience for complex automation projects is desirable.</p>\n<h2>Responsibilities</h2>\n<ul>\n <li>Supports MPI lean culture and initiatives by attending and participating in daily lean meetings while supporting efforts to make continuous improvements throughout MPI.</li>\n <li>Electrical Design: Responsible for creating electrical schematics, plc program logic, and electrical enclosure designs within the constraints determined by the given project, time, cost, performance.</li>\n <li>Project Work: Completes electrical design for a project with some supervision. 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Omron, AB, and Siemens are desirable.</li>\n <li>Experienced HMI programmer. Indusoft is desirable.</li>\n <li>Experienced Robotic’s programmer. 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