Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

We're looking for visionaries, enablers, and innovation drivers. Breaking new ground. Realizing innovative ideas. Helping to shape the future of mobility. At Grammer, you can make a big difference - for yourself as well. As a global partner to the automotive industry, we are successful worldwide with our two divisions Automotive and Commercial Vehicles. Every day, we develop and produce systems for passenger car interiors as well as driver and passenger seats for offroad commercial vehicles, trucks, buses, and trains. We shape the way people are mobile today and in the future. Bring your unique talents to the diverse Grammer community. More than 14,000 employees in 20 countries want to change the world together with you.

Location: Delphos

What are your main tasks?

What we are looking for: Grammer is looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in Delphos, OH. The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a team environment. This individual will have an opportunity to make lasting and positive changes in our team! The Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for providing technical support for all aspects of production from design release forward. The incumbent will be accountable for engineering activities in the area of injection molding, drilling operations, heat staking, welding, and assembly line operation, in order to obtain optimum productivity and quality levels while complying with customer specifications. Primary responsibilities and essential functions: The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for their assigned manufacturing processes. Through input from the customer, plant staff, and production employees the Manufacturing Engineer will review process controls, emphasize continuous improvement through Lean Manufacturing methodology and Kaizen activities, participate in the development of cell layouts, set up reduction (SMED), lead time reduction, improve productivity through waste reduction. In addition, the Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for achieving product target cost, improved efficiency, identifying possible production problems for existing products within their scope of accountability.

The Manufacturing Engineer will be involved with helping to determine project capital needs, launch strategies, project timing, process flows, labor and machine standards as well as proposed plans for changes to the process, equipment, molds, and tooling to ensure reliability and compatibility with existing Toledo Molding and Die standards/systems.

What you will be doing:

• Support and maintain project timeline
• Participate in identifying open items issues
• Review mold and secondary fixture design and make recommendations
• Develop workflow, effective layout and optimize processes
• Evaluate and implement process/product improvements
• Work with the team to develop tooling and poke yoke methods
• Assist with training of both technical and production in processing standards
• Develops short- and long-term strategy to support customer requirement
• Authorizes engineering change notices (deviations), process alerts, purchase orders, equipment spare parts inventory, and personnel training requests
• Supports plant safety rules, UAW contract, procedures and standards
• Involved with assigned project launch strategies, capital needs, program timing in support of all APQP, PPAP, and ISO/TS16949 requirements

Deliverables:

• Achieve goals and objectives relating to cost and timing
• Achieve project expectation and requirements for all elements of PPAP, ISO/TS16949 (Promotes ISO/TS16949 compliance)
• Program status reports (i.e., top five ppm's, open items, corrective action plans, etc.)
• Maintain records for primary tools (molds) and selected secondary equipment
• Prioritize personnel and resources as activities require
• Accountable for customer/plant continuous improvement programs
• Develop and maintain favorable customer relations

What are your qualifications?

What you will bring along:

• Bachelors Degree in a related area
• A minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role.
• Commercial Vehicle manufacturing experience or experience in a closely related industry, such as automotive.
• Product launch exposure
• Injection Molding and robotic experience required

And most importantly, what can you expect from us?

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• Tuition reimbursement programs
• 401(k) match
• Robust EAP services
• Developmental opportunities
• Much more!