What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Engineering Contractor position at GRAMMER Americas?
Job Title:
Manufacturing Engineer
About the Company:
GRAMMER is a global partner to the vehicle manufacturing industry, represented by our two divisions, Automotive and Commercial Vehicles. Our employees develop and produce innovative solutions to meet challenges in today's competitive global market. GRAMMER has production, distribution, and logistics sites in 20 countries across four continents.
Company Culture:
We foster a culture that embodies our Grammer CODE: Collaborate, Openness, Drive, and Empowerment.
Job Description:
The Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for assigned manufacturing processes. They will review process controls, emphasize continuous improvement through Lean Manufacturing methodology and Kaizen activities, participate in cell layouts, setup reduction (SMED), lead time reduction, improve productivity through waste reduction. The Manufacturing Engineer will also achieve product target cost, improved efficiency, identify possible production problems for existing products within their scope of accountability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support and maintain project timelines
- Manage project-process/product implementation in Plant
- Analyze and validate project risks
- Define and sustain Quality level, scheduling, deadlines, contribution margin, costs, and customer satisfaction in approval and implementation of project phases and variant creation in pre-series process
- Analyze and organize transfer process, SAP system generate and modification
- Establish, monitor, and control Product Lifecycle management on plant level
- Change evaluation and preliminary decision from affected plant view
- Organize and follow Ramp Up, R&R, Equipment Industrialization
- Kick off new equipment and tools (plan budget, investment, purchase, build, relocation, and setup of all new equipment)
- Create and control asset list (purchase orders, invoices, asset numbers, customs data, asset tags, accounting overview)
- Planning of industrialization in stages
- Lead cross-functional team on defined tasks in all phases of project
- Define role and transfer tasks between P1 project team, Engineering, Quality, Logistics, and Production
- Lead internal and external meetings with suppliers, customers, plants, and make correlation between different parties
- Define and manage specific customer requirement with transfer and implementation in serial production between departments responsibility
- Evaluate and implement process/product improvements
- Assist with training of both technical and production in processing standards
- Develops short- and long-term strategy to support customer requirement
- 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
- Involves with assigned project launch strategies, capital needs, program timing in support of all APQP, PPAP, and ISO/TS16949 requirements
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Project management
- SAP Workflow
- Excellence in MS Office Suite
- AUTO CAD
- Automotive industry experience
- Injection Molding and robotic experience required (Fanuc)
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Tuition reimbursement programs
- Robust EAP services
- Developmental opportunities
