Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Our firm is currently conducting a search for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer with our multi-billion dollar tier one automotive supplier in Greenville, SC. Relocation assistance is available .

Summary

This position will be primarily responsible for production floor support and process improvement for the assembly of complex, tight tolerance components utilizing automated assembly equipment including power and free conveyor systems, robotics, and vision systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering or Industrial Systems Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• Master’s Degree in Engineering and experience in the automotive industry is preferred
• 5+ years experience

Job Requirements:

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Process owner of a designated departmental process. Fully responsibility for a department that provides a reliable, stable and sustainable process as it relates to machinery, gaging, quality, tooling, capacity, and documentation, etc.
• Leads the new product launch team which is responsible for designing manufacturing plans including operator work content, machine capability, quality checks and information flow.
• Leads the department planning team for capacity planning and capital forecasting.
• Determines parts, tools, and gaging needed to achieve manufacturing goals according to product specification.
• Procures and writes all purchase requisitions for new machining, assembly and test equipment. Responsible for quoting, developing and qualifying the machine at the machine builder.
• Once the machine is onsite the persons leads the machine installation (developing the install plan and layouts), robotic integration, runoff and handoff to full time production.
• Ongoing support of equipment after full time production to include modifications for efficiency, capability and continuous improvement; Any issues that pertain to safety issues through troubleshooting and problem solving. Provides the proper support to the department to achieve the proper 5S levels.
• Actively support any downtime as it pertains to quality issues through troubleshooting and problem solving using different problem-solving applications like 8D, 6 Sigma, etc.