What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Efficiency Expert position at GRAMMER Americas?
About GRAMMER Americas
As a global partner to the vehicle manufacturing industry, GRAMMER Americas is committed to delivering innovative and flexible solutions to meet the challenges of today's competitive global market. We have a diverse range of products and services, including components and systems for car interiors, driver and passenger seats for off-road vehicles, trucks, buses, and trains.
Our Culture
We foster a culture that values collaboration, openness, drive, and empowerment. We believe that these values are essential for success in today's fast-paced business environment.
About the Manufacturing Engineer Role
The Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for reviewing process controls, emphasizing continuous improvement through Lean Manufacturing methodology and Kaizen activities, participating in the development of cell layouts, and setting up reduction (SMED). They will also be involved in helping to determine project capital needs, launch strategies, project timing, process flows, labor and machine standards, and proposed plans for changes to the process, equipment, molds, and tooling.
- Support and maintain project timeline
- Management of 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 the approval and implementation of project phases and variant creation in the 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 the 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, customer, 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
- Involved with assigned project launch strategies, capital needs, program timing in support of all APQP, PPAP, and ISO/TS16949 requirements
