Job Summary:
• Responsible for planning, designing, arranging, changing, optimizing, and supervising a manufacturing process.
• Must create, document, develop, and implement procedures required to assemble, test process, and manufacture products.
• University education (undergraduate degree at minimum, graduate degree preferred) in engineering and/or science
• Excellent time management and work organizational (prioritization) skills
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills to resolve new and unique problems
• Engineering in manufacturing field
• Minimum of 3 – 5 years of OEM (manufacturing) MRP/ERP system build, implementation, and support experience (automotive industry preferred)
• Ability to grasp modern technology quickly
• Highly proficient with the full Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, Access PowerPoint, Outlook and Visio)
• Excellent communication skills (English – written and oral)
• Develop, evaluate, improve, and document manufacturing processes for the enhancement of quality, cost reduction, and throughput
• Develop and implement process control techniques and procedures into manufacturing environments
• Make recommendations to management for changes to parts and processes to optimize throughput
• Analyze manufacturing process flows continually for the enhancement of quality, cost reduction and throughput
• Collaborate with configuration control and design engineering regarding product tooling and design to ensure effectual production methods
• Confer with vendors when determining product specifications and arrangement of equipment, parts, and material purchases, and evaluate products accordingly to quality standards and specifications
• Ensure that the manufacturing process does not present any safety issues, and make changes should any arise
• Estimate staffing requirements, production times, and relative costs to provide data for operational decisions
• Provide engineering support in production department to trouble shoot and resolve technical problems
• Support company policies and procedures, goals and objectives, and good manufacturing practices
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of planes and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• 50% Office Environment, 50% Plant Floor (PPE required)
