Manufacturing Engineer Job at GRAMMER Americas, Shannon, MS

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  • GRAMMER Americas
  • Shannon, MS

Job Description

Job Description

GRAMMER is specialized in developing and manufacturing components and systems for car interiors as well as driver and passenger seats for off-road vehicles, trucks, buses, and trains.

As a global partner to the vehicle manufacturing industry we are represented around the world by our two divisions, Automotive and Commercial Vehicles. Our employees are constantly engaged in developing and producing innovative, flexible solutions to meet challenges in today’s competitive global market. GRAMMER can be found on four continents with more than 50 production, distribution and logistics sites in 20 countries.

Culture:

Here at GRAMMER, we foster a culture that embraces our Grammer CODE: Collaborate in an inclusive environment, Openness in communication and ideas, Drive for results with energy and Empower yourself and others by taking ownership of decisions and actions.

What we are looking for:

Grammer is looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in Tupelo, MS . 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!

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 standards and systems.

What you will be doing:

  • Support and maintain project timeline
  • Management of Project- Process/Product implementation in Plant
  • Analyze and validate project risks
  • Define and sustain Quality level, scheduling, deadlines, contribution margin, costs and customer satisfaction in the approval and implementation of project phases and variant creation in the pre-series process.
  • Analyze and organize transfer process, SAP system generate and modification
  • Establish, monitor and control Product Lifecycle management on plant level.
  • Change evaluation and preliminary decision from the affected plant view.
  • Define, manage and distribute change activities, process documentation, consumption management, and customer approval.
  • Organize and follow Ramp Up, R&R, Equipment Industrialization
  • Kick off new equipment and tools (plan budget, investment, purchase, build, relocation and setup of all new equipment.
  • Plan and organize internal resources for pre-serial and Ramp Up phase.
  • Create and control asset list (purchase orders, invoices, asset numbers, customs data, asset tags, accounting overview.
  • Planning of industrialization in stages
  • Lead cross-functional team on defined tasks in all phases of project
  • Define role and transfer tasks between P1 project team, Engineering, Quality, Logistics, and Production.
  • Enlisting teams, implementing strategies, measuring ROI and plan continuous improvements
  • Lead internal and external meetings with suppliers, customer, plants and make correlation between different parties.
  • Define and manage specific customer requirement with transfer and implementation in serial production between departments responsibility.
  • Collect and organize execution of all norms and standards based on requirements of ITAF audit and VDA standards.
  • 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 you will bring along:

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • A minimum of 3 years' experience in a similar role.
  • Project management
  • SAP Workflow
  • Excellence in MS Office Suite
  • AutoCAD
  • Automotive industry experience.
  • Product launch exposure a plus.
  • Injection Molding and robotic experience required (Fanuc)

What we can provide you:

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

Job Tags

Contract work, Temporary work, Relocation, Flexible hours,

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