Manufacturing Engineer

Yokohama Industries Americas Inc•Easley, SC

25d

About The Position

Responsible for review, design, development and application of manufacturing processes, gages - equipment and tooling to meet customer, supplier and internal customer requirements, and expectations. Interact accordingly with all parties involved to assure that quality requirements and process cost and delivery performance objectives are met.

Requirements

The ability to follow complex directions, meet timelines and create a plan to meet assigned goals.
The ability to determine equipment needs and readiness.
The ability to identify and resolve problems at a professional level.
The ability to operate a computer and basic tools. The ability to travel as needed.
Demonstrate the ability to understand technical problems of a complex nature
A Mechanical Engineering degree is preferred and/or equivalent experience working as a technician or engineer in automotive manufacturing 5+ years and obtain acceptable results on the standard YIA employment selection test
A minimum of 3-5 years of related experience

Responsibilities

Manage Project and departmental timing plans (timelines)
Develop and Maintain the following:
Equipment capacity plan (including direct labor forecast), Labor Quotations, Project Appropriation Request (PAR’s), Tooling Appropriation Request (TAR’s), Capital Expenditure Plans for applicable departments, Production Routing (router, mfg specs), Operator Instruction Sheets (OIS), Daily PM sheets, Equipment manuals –to standard, Engineering Change Notices (ECN’s), Process FMEA’s, Internal Change Requests (ICR’s), Plant layout for applicable departments, Purchase requisitions, YA Machine spec design, P-Flows, Mfg specifications (time studies), Mfg capacity plans, Capital plans, ABC forms, Packaging standards.
Tooling, gages and equipment drawings/designs
Ability to design small tooling & fixture in Pro-E
Conduct Tooling Trials (machine plugged in, ready to go)
Train the trainer (cross functional team)
Responsible for training production foreman on new process.
Responses to internal issues/ability to lead problem-solving
Line trials, PPAP’s (active participation)Lead doc review/process audit, PFMEA, CP, Etc
Performs other duties as assigned