Position Summary:

Manage and direct essential engineering functions related to manufacturing engineering, product launches, product documentation, developing, maintaining, and improving manufacturing processes. 

Essential Job Functions: 

• To provide leadership, development, training, and direction for all positions within the manufacturing engineering department.
• To implement best practices and improve existing manufacturing technologies that provide high quality products, improved efficiency and optimizes profitability for the company.
• Provide leadership for project management activities that result in creative and innovative improvements in the manufacturing processes. 
• Provide technical services for development of process instructions manuals and key training aids for manufacturing.
• Develop and manage departmental budget leading to cost control and scrap reduction.
• Support and implement continuous improvement projects resulting in reduced scrap and labor, quality improvements, lower cycle times and improved safety.
• Support manufacturing in troubleshooting processes.

Process Actions including but not limited to the following:

• Engineering work standards (Direct labor standards, Earned Hours)
• Press and machine cycle times
• Automation
• Press Loading Capacity
• Manage implementation of all product changes.

Plant Engineering including but not limited to the following:

• Accurate and up to date plant and factory drawings
• Expansion and Capital improvement projects 
• Scrap Improvement plans
• Direct Labor Efficiency Improvement plans

Tooling Engineering including but not limited to the following:

• Mold maintenance and refurb
• Process Engineering
• Mold changeover

Product Engineering including but not limited to the following:

• Representing the plant on new program launch teams.
• APQP process
• New process development and prove out.
• Bill of Materials (develop and maintain)
• Process flow charts, FMEAs, and control plan
• Process planning
• Capital planning.
• Timelines and open issues
• Maintain accurate and current product documentation:
• Drawings
• Change request.
• Product/process change checklist.
• Timelines
• Quoting
• New programs
• Design changes
• Cost Reductions
• Manufacturing Planning
• Factory capacity planning
• Capital (forecasting, tracking, budgeting)
• Develop, implement, and support automated manufacturing processes.

Qualifications:  

• Minimum of five years in a leadership role, progressively increasing in job responsibilities.
• Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering or plastics field.
• Familiarity with APQP methodology.
• Experienced in an engineering field within a manufacturing environment, preferably an automotive supplier.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including Word and Excel.
• Through knowledge of SPC and statistical data analysis.
• Practical knowledge and experience with DOE techniques.