What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Engineer position at VBeyond Corporation?
**Production Engineer Role Summary:**
The Production Engineer demonstrates leadership in communicating, developing, and executing new products and processes to assigned projects in an assembly operations setting. Supports daily activities in process developments, validation activities, and change management. In this role, you will utilize your experience and expertise to solve problems, develop & execute objectives, & have the ability to meet company objectives within timelines specifically related to your assigned projects.
The Production Engineer demonstrates leadership in communicating, developing, and executing new products and processes to assigned projects in an assembly operations setting. Supports daily activities in process developments, validation activities, and change management. In this role, you will utilize your experience and expertise to solve problems, develop & execute objectives, & have the ability to meet company objectives within timelines specifically related to your assigned projects.
**Essential Responsibilities:
- Develop risk assessment initiatives aligned to AIAG FMEA guidelines.
- Develop quality assurance initiatives aligned to AIAG Control Plan guidelines.
- Support the development, facilitation, qualification, and execution of Internal PPAP initiatives.
- Conduct the implementation of fixtures and various tooling activities ensuring completion of all measurement system analysis (MSA) (Gage R&R) qualification requirements per customer standards.
- Reviews program proposal or plan to determine time frame, requirements, procedures for accomplishing program execution.
- Facilitate and coordinate design change initiatives.
- Review and update preventative maintenance documents for review.
- Develop standard operating procedures where required. Monitor FPY data collection.
- Perform Safety audits in new cells and support updates to documentation and systems to compliance requirements.
- Ability to update CAD, CREO, Pro-E files where applicable.
- Coordinate, prepare, and help execute DOEs per the Matrix output.
- Insure PDN's, PCN's, and Quality Plans are updated and in alignment with current project status and match CP and WI.
- Support and conduct vision system quality system calibrations and alignment.
**Qualifications/Requirements:**
- B.S in Engineering, Technical Practice, or Equivalent.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in an engineering, quality, or Production and Manufacturing Operations in an Automotive or related industry.
- Experience with AIAG, and ISO 9001 Standards.
- Ability to support the development and execution of continues improvement initiatives.
- Has practical knowledge with quality vision system integrations, calibrations, and adjustments.
- Experience with executing, training, and implementing Gage R&R's.
- Has practical knowledge of GD&T.
**Desired Characteristics:**
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Capability to work in teams.
- Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.
- ASQ certification.
- CAD, 3D modeling capabilities.
