Engineering Manager

Adient•Warren, MI

18d•Onsite

About The Position

The Engineering Manager plans, directs, and leads the manufacturing engineering and maintenance functions within our JIT Bridgewater Interiors facility in Warren, MI. This position has the authority to carry out the basic functions and responsibilities described and supported by the facility’s organizational chart. The Engineering Manager is responsible for managing product engineering related activities, plant product launch efforts; new programs, AQD, CIP, and QS9000 activities. They also manage efforts related to VA/VE initiative and direct plant engineering activities. The role involves monitoring new product introduction activities and has the authority to stop the production process if a quality or safety concern is noticed. The Engineering Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating activities of designated projects to ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters. This includes calling and running internal and external team project review meetings, writing and maintaining certain portions of program books, facilitating customer communication, maintaining and publishing open issues, developing and tracking project timing, and providing the first level of resolution for inter-project differences and problems affecting project execution and communication. The role also monitors TQC/QS9000 requirements for the project.

Requirements

Automotive experience required.
Core Industrial Engineering Skills: Auto Cad, line balance, MODAPTS, PFMEA
Priority Management Skills
Equipment Understanding: Fanuc robots, Atlas Copco torque tools, Allen Bradley PLCs, 8D, root cause analysis, equipment uptime improvements
Communication: Customer, Equipment vendors, corporate teams, all other plant departments, hourly team members
Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent
8 – 10 years of manufacturing experience in production manufacturing/assembly

Nice To Haves

JIT Experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Direct plant engineering activities.
Monitor new product introduction activities.
Manage efforts related to VA/VE initiative.
Plan, direct, and coordinate activities of designated projects to ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
Call and run internal and external team project review meetings.
Write and maintain certain portions of program books.
Facilitate customer communication.
Maintain and publish open issues.
Develop and track project timing.
Provide the first level of resolution for inter-project differences and problems affecting project execution and communication.
Monitor TQC/QS9000 requirements for the project.
Review project proposal or plant to determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.
Be responsible for the plant’s activities concerning VA/VE plans.
Coordinate these activities/plans with the appropriate ASG departments.
Make customer presentations relating to timing and product performance and assure that Customer interaction is occurring on a regular basis in these areas (EWO’s TECA, PCR, etc.).
Maintain the SDT open issues list and communicate same to appropriate individuals.
Be responsible to TQC elements of the project and Phase Five (5) through (9).
Identify and track key program issues.
Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required.
Prepare project reports for management, client or others.
Include Required Documentation for Production, PCR’s ER, EWO and ensure TECA procedures are followed and implemented.
Manage product engineering related activities as Program Manager from phase V through phase IX per TQC procedures.
Manage product engineering related activities, plant product launch efforts; new programs, AQD, CIP, and QS9000 activities.
Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.
Perform other duties deemed necessary by the Plant Manager.
Stop the production process if a quality or safety concern is noticed.