Industrial Engineer

Continental • Auburn, AL

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About The Position

As an Industrial Engineer at Continental, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that the necessary tooling is ordered and built to meet program timing. You will create tools and measures to reduce complexity in the plant, thereby improving process costs in alignment with plant objectives. Your responsibilities will include generating and maintaining procedures and work instructions, ensuring the implementation of measures, and maintaining controls for rubber injection molds. You will also maintain a close and positive working relationship with corporate areas and plant staff to achieve goals and objectives. Additionally, you will be responsible for all mold tools in the plant from the start-up of serial production through to the end of life, taking customer requirements into consideration. You will integrate new activities between R&D and the plant for the industrialization of new products related to mold tooling design, initiate activities for material standardization and product improvement, assist in optimizing existing molded rubber products, monitor QC actions, and assist in the development and adaptations required from customer complaints. Furthermore, you will optimize mold tooling maintenance and lead a highly qualified technical staff by providing both technical and personal guidance.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 2+ years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment with experience in new production introduction.
• Experience and knowledge of rubber manufacturing.
• Good MS Office Suite skills: Outlook, PPT, Excel.
• Ability to communicate internally and externally across multiple parts of the business.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with rubber injection mold tools.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the necessary tooling is ordered and built to meet program timing.
• Create tools and measures to reduce complexity in the plant to improve process costs according to plant objectives.
• Generate and maintain procedures and work instructions, ensure implementation of measures, and maintain controls for rubber injection molds.
• Maintain a close and positive working relationship with corporate areas and plant staff to attain goals and objectives.
• Responsible for all mold tools in the plant from the start-up of serial production through the end of life, considering customer requirements.
• Integrate new activities between R&D and the plant for the industrialization of new products pertaining to mold tooling design.
• Initiate necessary activities to achieve material standardization/consolidation and product improvement objectives.
• Assist in optimizing existing molded rubber products in serial production in terms of mold damage and repair.
• Monitor the status of the QC actions initiated by the Product Review group and within the industrialization phase.
• Assist in the development and adaptations required out of internal or external customer complaints.
• Assist in the optimization of mold tooling maintenance, release, and monitoring systems and procedures.
• Lead and develop a highly qualified technical staff by providing technical and personal guidance.

Benefits

• Immediate Benefits
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition & Employee Discounts
• Annual Bonus
• Employer 401(k) Match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree