Our Tier-1 client, a leading supplier in the design & manufacturing of exterior structural components, is recruiting for Senior Manufacturing Engineer.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Planning, organizing, and directing engineering to meet company objectives for cost, delivery, efficiency, and continuous improvement
- Support all major downtime and customer shipment risks, along with the prevention of these risks
- Full accountability for the performance of the plant’s programs including quality, production, and continuous improvement of the manufacturing process
- Ensures engineers maintain, update, and control master files per quality requirements, involvement in new product launches to ensure capacity is available, process layout is optimized and required internal and external dates and requirements are met
- Quote cost and timing for engineering changes required by the customer ensuring capacity is available, change can support production requirements, and change is optimized to eliminate scrap and labor. Manage assigned program timing, documentation and costs
- Communicate with sales and vendors
- Visit customers as needed
- Identify inefficiencies (scrap, rework, throughput, labor) within all programs to determine root cause, identify a solution and implement the solution following the PDCA methodology
- Address customer concerns, develop an action plan, implement corrections and maintain open communication
- APQP Process, involvement in quoting new business and ECRs, and tooling buyoff
- Responsible for other duties or special projects as assigned
- Process Input/Output responsibilities as identified in each individual quality and/or environmental process outline
- Providing support and assisting all team members with problem-solving, root cause analysis and permanent corrective actions
- Maintaining RASIC for roles and responsibilities for engineering team
REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:
- 4 Year college Engineering degree or 10 years in automotive industries, managing responsibilities for engineering and manufacturing
- 10 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience in a high volume, Injection Molding and Paint, automotive environment with 3 years in a lead role (2 Manufacturing Engineers and 2 Technicians). Preference given to candidates with Stellantis experience
- Demonstrated experience with Kaizen's
- Excellent verbal/written communication
- Pro-active in leading an engineering group
- Able to work different hours and shifts as needed
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