Maintenance Stamping Engineer - GCH

Gestamp•Chattanooga, TN

13d

About The Position

The Maintenance Stamping Engineer researches, plans, coordinates equipment design, and monitors mechanical, electromechanical, and welding equipment to support production goals. The role works across the organization to promote continuous improvement and long-term success, and serves as the process owner and technical expert for stamping and related systems. The position supports equipment reliability and performance through analysis, maintenance troubleshooting, preventive-maintenance optimization, spare-parts management, documentation, and collaboration with vendors. It also assists and trains the Maintenance Team, supports capital-equipment design and installation, and works with Program Management, Quality, and operations teams to assess new work, engineering changes, and product quality. The role participates in process audits and supports internal and external audit requests.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a technical field, or equivalent; alternatively, 5+ years of experience and training in a similar role and environment.
Demonstrated work experience, ideally in a manufacturing environment.

Nice To Haves

Automotive industry experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Understand and comply with OSHA, safety, and PPE requirements, and protect the health and safety of colleagues, contractors, and support personnel.
Create, document, develop, and deliver procedures to ensure equipment meets Quality, Delivery, and Cost targets.
Own and provide technical leadership for process systems, including hot stamping presses and lines, cold stamping presses, and material-handling and processing robotics.
Analyze equipment conditions and operating characteristics and identify opportunities for improvement.
Analyze available data and implement strategies to improve department KPIs, including run rate, throughput, and material reduction; identify data-collection needs and propose improvements.
Support Maintenance with chronic or catastrophic downtime troubleshooting.
Create sustainability documentation, including how-to documents and procedures.
Optimize preventive maintenance using downtime, history, OEM recommendations, failure modes, and feedback.
Manage early spare-parts planning.
Work with vendors to evaluate products that may replace or improve existing products and increase reliability or longevity.
Assist and train the Maintenance Team in maintenance-process standardization, root-cause analysis, and 5S implementation.
Lead continuous-improvement activities related to Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
Maintain current knowledge of industry technology and advances.
Design, install, and debug machinery and capital equipment.
Support Program Management in evaluating new work, processes, and engineering changes.
Support the Quality group in evaluating and improving product dimensional reports.
Support team functions through Kaizen submissions and implementation, cross-training, problem solving, and support for operational metrics and needs.
Support Maintenance during on-line troubleshooting and corrective-action implementation, including coordination with controls, robotics, and PLC systems.
Participate in the Layered Process Audit schedule.
Participate in the Internal ISO/TS 16949 Audit schedule if a certified ISO/TS 16949 internal auditor.
Cooperate in responding to questions and providing information for internal and external audits related to ISO/TS 16949, VDA 6.3, and customer standards.
Perform other duties as assigned.