What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor- 2nd Shift position at New Flyer?
New Flyer is North America's heavy-duty transit bus leader and offers the most advanced product line under the Xcelsior® and Xcelsior CHARGE® brands. It also offers infrastructure development through NFI Infrastructure Solutions™, a service dedicated to providing safe, sustainable, and reliable charging and mobility solutions. Further information is available at www.newflyer.com.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Support all manufacturing engineering activities within assigned manufacturing cell(s) including implementing and facilitating lean manufacturing initiatives, implementing ECO’s, assigning inventory locations, conducting contract reviews, creating shop floor instructions, evaluating standards and completing capital and facility upgrades.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Provide manufacturing engineering supervision, ensuring that manufacturing cells are properly supported.
- Work effectively as a team member to ensure operational metrics are achieved and any remedial action is actively pursued.
- Maintain current updates on manufacturing engineering related tasks.
- Represent manufacturing engineering at appropriate meetings and events.
- Design or specify any equipment/tooling/racking required to support manufacturing.
- Ensure relevant engineering change Notice (ECNs) are properly reviewed within assigned cells or assigned option groups and support all aspects of production implementation.
- Ensure default locators to all parts within assigned manufacturing cells.
- Create shop floor instructions and hot sheets and train the necessary personnel on those standards.
- Update and maintain layouts (plant & cell layouts and inventory, housekeeping, emergency, & security maps etc.)
- Specify and facilitate capital and equipment upgrades, installations or modifications.
- Implement and facilitate lean manufacturing initiatives (5S, value stream mapping, set-up reduction etc.
- Promote an environment of continuous improvement and team work
- Lead or participate in SWAT team meetings, ensuring that necessary action is taken between cross-functional groups to resolve issues
- Conduct process observations to ensure that assigned time standards are fair and consistent.
- Maintain necessary resource plans for ensuring production activities are properly resourced.
- Validate routings and submit and implement routing change requests to process planning where appropriate.
- Conduct contract reviews prior to contract start to ensure production preparedness per SR as assigned. This review conducted as outlined in the New Flyer Work Instruction – Manufacturing Readiness Assessment.
- Participate in Material Review Board (MRB) meetings as assigned, to assist with the disposition of non-conforming materials.
- Initiate engineering change requests (ECRs) where appropriate.
- Support process planning and production engineering.
- Participate in internal and outside supplier certifications and audits, as required.
- Engineering degree and/or courses & work experience
- Lean certification or applicable equivalent work experience
- Salary $90,000 to $105,000 annually.
- comprehensive benefits package starting day one
- A continuous learning environment.
- Ability to advance your career with a growing company.
- Employee social committee organizes numerous events throughout the year, including summer barbecues, holiday festivities, sporting events and tournaments, and much more.
- Ongoing employee development through a variety of in-house training initiatives along with tuition subsidies for courses at outside institutions.
OUR WHY:
We exist to move people. Our mission is to design and deliver exceptional transportation solutions that are safe, accessible, efficient and reliable.
NFI Group is a leading independent global bus manufacturer providing a comprehensive suite of mass transportation solutions. News and information are available at www.nfigroup.com, www.newflyer.com, www.mcicoach.com, www.arbocsv.com, www.alexander-dennis.com, www.carfaircomposites.com and www.nfi.parts.
Salary : $90,000 - $105,000
