Manufacturing Engineer

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree - technical required.
• A minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role.
• Automotive industry experience.
• Product launch exposure a plus.
• Injection Molding experience required, blow molding a plus.

Position Summary

The Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for providing technical support for all aspects of production from design release forward. The incumbent will be accountable for engineering activities in the area of injection and blow molding, drilling operations, heat staking, welding and assembly, in order to obtain optimum productivity and quality levels while complying with customer specifications.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for his assigned manufacturing processes.Through input from the customer, plant staff, and production employees the Manufacturing Engineer will review process controls, emphasize continuous improvement through Lean Manufacturing methodology and Kaizen activities, participate in the development of cell layouts, set up reduction (SMED), lead time reduction, improve productivity through waste reduction. In addition the Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for achieving product target cost, improved efficiency, identifying possible production problems for existing products within their scope of accountability.

The Manufacturing Engineer will be involved with helping to determine project capital needs, launch strategies, project timing, process flows, labor and machine standards as well as proposed plans for changes to the process, equipment, molds, and tooling to ensure reliability and compatibility with existing Grammer standards/systems.

Job Functions

• Support and maintain project time line
• Participate in identifying open items issues
• Review mold and secondary fixture design and make recommendations
• Develop workflow, effective layout and optimize processes
• Evaluate and implement process/product improvements
• Work with the team to develop tooling and poke yoke methods
• Assist with training of both technical and production in processing standards
• Develops short and long term strategy to support customer requirements
• Authorizes engineering change notices (deviations), process alerts, purchase orders, equipment spare parts inventory, and personnel training requests
• Supports plant safety rules, UAW contract, procedures and standards
• Involved with assigned project launch strategies, capital needs, program timing in support of all APQP, PPAP, and ISO/TS16949 requirements

Deliverables

• Achieve goals and objectives relating to cost and timing
• Achieve project expectation and requirements for all elements of PPAP, ISO/TS16949 (Promotes ISO/TS16949 compliance)
• Program status reports (i.e., top five ppm’s, open items, corrective action plans, etc.)
• Maintain records for primary tools (molds) and selected secondary equipment
• Prioritize personnel and resources as activities require
• Accountable for customer/plant continuous improvement programs
• Develop and maintain favorable customer relations