Job Description
Project Management:
- Create and track timing plans for overall scope and individual activities.
- Translate voice of the customer to critical to quality requirements.
- Ensure milestones are achieved on time.
- Stakeholder engagement and management - Communicate clearly and objectively.
- Compile reports.
- Support Commercial with RFQs.
- Manage ECIs for new projects.
- Follow customer APQP processes.
- Advanced computer skills: Office 365, Sharepoint, Advanced Excel, MS Teams.
Process Design:
- Design all stages of the production process.
- Design processes around lean principles.
- Consider investment vs return.
- Research new manufacturing methods.
- Implementation of new processes.
- Develop & troubleshoot new processes.
- Process Documentation: FMEA, PIs, BOMs & Process Sheets.
- Setting Parameters & Maintenance Checklists.
- Commission new facilities.
Budget & Capex Planning:
- Evaluate and estimate capex and tooling requirements for new projects.
- Jigs and fixtures, custom built machinery.
- Civil and plant, off the shelf machinery.
- Track planned vs actual expenditure.
Jig, Fixture & Machine Conceptualization & Design:
- Conceptualize jigs & fixtures.
- Work with internal, local & international designers/machine builders.
- Propose concepts.
- Drive the design process.
- Negotiate capex/tooling budget based on investment vs return.
- Justify capex/tooling budgets with simulations and studies.
- Sheet metal design.
- Jig and fixture design.
- Understanding of mechanical machinery/jigs/fixtures and operating principles.
- Understanding of pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical systems.
- Conduct design reviews.
Product Design:
- Rapid product development.
- Use CAD to design new products according to customer specifications.
- Fabricate prototypes.
- Field testing and demos.
- Simulation testing, DFMEAs.
- Liaise with suppliers regarding material sourcing.
- Design & develop within required timeframes.
- BOMs.
Innovation of Current Manufacturing Methods:
- Use lean principles to identify Kaizen opportunities.
- Use statistical and financial data to justify Kaizens.
- Improve current processes to improve quality, efficiency & scrap.
People Development:
- Train shift leaders on new processes.
- Develop and mentor students and interns.
- Self-development of engineering skills.
Problem Solving & Investigation:
- Conduct detailed investigations to support Quality with regards to field failures.
- Conduct detailed investigations into manufacturing problems.
- Support production with innovative solutions to manufacturing difficulties.
Job Requirements
- 2+ years minimum Automotive engineering experience.
- Project management experience.
- N Dip / B-tech Mechanical Engineering or relevant technical experience.
- Core Tools 1,2 & 3.
- Design & drawing experience (CAD).
- VDA 6.3 Process Auditor Qualification / IATF / MLA.
- Problem Solving Course / Skills.
- Project Management Certification.
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