Lead Robot Technician

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients. 

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work. 

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission. 

Your Role at Baxter

This is where we make life-saving products!

You have deep knowledge of and experience with manufacturing processes. You understand the importance of building relationships, establishing order, and maintaining clear communication channels. You also appreciate the stability of a large multinational company with a long history of growth and success. Your team is an extension of your family, and you know how to support them as individuals while helping them achieve results as a team.

Your role positions you to be directly involved in the physical production that enables Baxter to fulfill our mission to save and sustain lives. You manage the line between meeting production timelines and making quality products. As a manager, you are the trusted critical connection between the business and the workers on the floor.

Your Team

Baxter is focused on saving and sustaining lives by finding solutions to complex problems. Each day, the manufacturing team strives to create quality products for our customers—and are sometimes met with unforeseen issues to solve. The high-caliber talent at Baxter meets these challenges head-on, as a team, to create products with the customers’ needs top-of-mind.

We build relationships with each other to get work done!

A manufacturing facility is a high-energy environment with little downtime. We have robust processes that ensure our employees are safe and healthy—both mentally and physically. We pride ourselves on being top of the line regarding cleanliness and safety.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Ensuring the safety of our operators and programmers when robots are integrated into their processes.

• Improve the safety of robot cells to provide a safe work environment for the robot programmers to prevent injury.

• Essential duties, including technical lead for the robot programmers.

• Develop and maintain cost effective automated manufacturing processes.

• Responsible for work instructions, job instructions, regulatory compliance, processing engineering changes, troubleshooting problems, and supporting changes in production methods and rates, pertaining to robot operations.

• Ensure validation documentation is complete, accurate and complies with procedures, for all robotic equipment.

• Manage the implementation of process changes, for all the automated weld cells, due to engineering changes and new product instructions.

• Programming and programming guidance for all robotic cells, new and existing. (Yaskawa Motoman, Cincinnati Milacron)

• Set up PLC and robot communications on new and existing production cells.

• Proficient at understanding weld defects and discontinuities, per AWS Standards. (Weld quality)

• Troubleshoot and remedy weld defects, wire feeders, weld power sources, welding torches, etc.

• Troubleshooting robotic equipment effectively, to minimize downtime.

• Maintaining robotic programs and parameters, to ensure the latest revision is always backed up.

• Create back up of robot programs and/or parameters, as required.

• Analyze and improve robot programs to improve the overall efficiency of the automated cells.

• Reprogram automation of engineering changes and improvements.

• Set up/program/conduct tests for process improvement and new products.

• Perform skill evaluations/ assessments on new hires and current employees wanting to become robot programmers.

• Review welded parts to ensure that new processes produce parts to the drawing (weld FAI’s).

• Develop and maintain standard work for robot programmer positions.

• Create and execute all validation documentation required for new robotic weld cells, as needed.

• Continuously auditing/monitoring of weld robot programming to reduce cycle times driving efficiency improvements. Eliminating waste.

• Integration of robotics and fabrication equipment, to increase the use of automation in other areas.

• Integrating the use of robotics to load and unload weld tooling and the inspection of weldments. (Vision systems) 

What You’ll Bring

• High School Diploma, Technical Certificate, or equivalent experience by combination of additional education and work experience in a specific technical discipline.

• Advanced Robot programming experience, with single and multiple arm cells, required. (Welding and Palletizing)

• Weld experience is desired.

• Excellent communication.

• Troubleshooting and Root Cause Problem Solving skills.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $68,000 - $93,500 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our employees. For additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits, please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits | Baxter

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.
                                                                                                                                                               
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