Chef’s robots are used in food manufacturing. The robots move ingredients from bins into food trays like you might see in your supermarket’s frozen food aisle, or fresh salads in the deli section or delivered to your home by a meal delivery company. 

A Robot Wrangler primarily works on the food assembly lines of Chef’s customers. The job is at the customer site assisting the customer manufacturing supervisors and operators to use robots effectively in their day to day manufacturing. This involves coordinating their manufacturing plans with the robot set up and helping the customer’s team to understand how to efficiently run the robots to maximize production. The role includes constant training and reinforcement so that the customer learns to operate effectively. At times the customer your help moving, setting up and operating the robots.

• Coordinate onsite schedule of robots and customer’s manufacturing plans

• Assisting the customers assembly line leaders to plan for use of the robots

• Working with line supervisors to move robots to the line

• Configuring robots to run a specific ingredient and meal 

• Setting up and running the robots 

• Being an on-site resource for troubleshooting and simple repairs

• Coordinate and execute inspection, maintenance, and repair tasks on robots in the field. 

• Train customers on operation and maintenance.

• Recognize, communicate, and properly document product issues, complaints and improvements.

• Escalate problems, when needed, to appropriate resource(s) for solutions.

• At least 3 years in a manufacturing support role

• Availability to work a flexible schedule to support customer schedule, including some weekends, nights, and on-call hours.

• Nice to have Spanish language working proficiency.

• Nice to have experience in manufacturing automation. 

• Prefer an associates degree in a related major.

• Good written and verbal communication skills 

• Ability to document tasks performed according to SOPs and documenting problems or failures in the product, process or equipment.

• Basic computer skills.