Robin Zhao

Manage and lead the plant engineering team, including Process, Industrial, controls, and digital transformations engineers.
Lead capital projects to introduce new equipment and processes.
Develop standards and best practices to increase the speed and ease of automation and new process implementation.
Develop a cross-functional team to better support production.

Lead the engineering team's daily work.
Greenfield startup for a 1 million sqft manufacturing plant.
New equipment scoping, RFP/RFQ, design review, FAT, installation, commissioning, and SAT.
Engineering position hiring and team building.

Manage, develop, and execute controls and automation projects.
Manage contract engineers and Co-op interns.
Work as plant floor tech lead to implement Lodestar Scada and MES system.
Develop cost estimates, investment forecasts, business cases, appropriation requests, and plans for project activity.
Ensure long-term, cost-effective maintenance of equipment. Manage projects to minimize investment cost.

Provide corporate-wide controls and Scada solutions.

Lead field control system and telecommunications design, installation, debugging, and troubleshooting.

Design and develop applications using Wonderware and Clearscada platform for oil field and natural gas well-site production management.

Automation integrator.
Design and development of automation systems for customers such as Nissan, Georgia-Pacific, etc.