Job Summary

Role Definition: Provides technical expertise necessary to design all aspects of production, costs, quality, compliance to safety guidelines, and environmental requirements for manufacturing.

Responsibilities

- Lead manufacturing engineering activities for the Paint Line.
- Lead Design, installation, and optimization of New / existing Paint Line processes and equipment.
- Manage day-to-day PQVC performance and resolve operational issues.
- Develop and improve paint and post-paint trim processes, tooling, and standards.
- Create, update and release all the APQP / PMD documents for Paint line
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance asset utilization, efficiency, and productivity

Desired Qualifications

- University or technical school degree in a Manufacturing Engineering-related degree;
- Thorough knowledge of manufacturing and industrial engineering concepts; and
- Good communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Good knowledge of Transmission / Gearbox Assembly, Testing and its operation.
- Prior experience working in a manufacturing workplace.
- Ability to work with a diverse group of employees, department, vendors and customers.

Skill Descriptors

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
- Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
- Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
- Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
- Assists in assessing risks, advantages and consideration of alternatives.

Manufacturing Engineering & Processes

Knowledge of Assembly processes, techniques and methods of engineering in a manufacturing environment; ability to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems and

processes that safely realize a desired objective or invention.



Knowledge of existing product manufacturing methods, technologies and processes; ability to execute, plan, manage and monitor the entire manufacturing process.

- Assists in problem resolution, drafting and writing specifications for engineering practices.
- Works with basic, routine components of the engineering discipline in manufacturing.
- Performs basic installation, maintenance and repairs for a specific engineering function.
- Follows relevant standards, policies and practices in engineering operations.
- Reports unusual engineering issues & considerations regarding manufacturing operations to senior staff.
- Assesses associated phases, activities, deliverables and processes.
- Documents relevant standards, policies and practices.
- Follows standard manufacturing processes to conduct production activities.
- Researches new technologies to be integrated into existing manufacturing process.
- Explains tools, techniques and documents used for process monitoring and control.

Lean Manufacturing

Knowledge of the philosophy, principles and implementation approaches of lean manufacturing; ability to integrate and implement lean manufacturing philosophy into existing production and management processes.

- Discusses considerations for work cell design and effectiveness monitoring.
- Finds solution for key technical and people problems associated with transformation to lean.
- Explains issues and considerations of implementing lean in own function or area.
- Selects and utilizes tools, techniques and measurements associated with a lean assessment.
- Explains benchmarks and measures of effectiveness of lean.

Project Management

Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize,



monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

- Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
- Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects.
- Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
- Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
- Produces standard project status reports.

Collaborative Automation

Knowledge of techniques and processes of collaborative automation; ability to develop and deploy cobots / Robots to automate manufacturing processes.

- Assesses manual operations to identify cobot / Robot applications.
- Implements cobots / Robots to improve ergonomics and safety of manufacturing operations.
- Performs cobots / Robots risk assessment to safely incorporate cobots in manufacturing operations.
- Tests cobots / Robots to identify and correct defects or anomalies.
- Uses appropriate tools, software, and programming techniques to model, develop and deploy cobots.

Problem Solving

Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

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