2nd Shift Final Test Manufacturing Engineer

Wabtec•Fort Worth, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a member of our flagship locomotive manufacturing operations facility, the Final Test Manufacturing Engineer provides technical expertise for a team of production technicians. In this role, you will utilize your experience and expertise and own responsibility for all elements of manufacturing quality in their assigned area within the Ft. Worth Locomotive plant (TXL). For our Final Test area, The Manufacturing Engineer demonstrates leadership in communicating business goals, programs, and processes for an area or business segment. In this role you will utilize your experience or expertise to solve problems by working with teams to resolve manufacturing and quality problems related to methods, processes, tooling, equipment and design.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree from an accredited university or college (or a High School Diploma/GED with at least 4 years of manufacturing experience)
Must be able to work scheduled shift hours
Reliable and predictable attendance is a prerequisite for this role as it is directly tied to weekly production, but may also require overtime as needed.

Nice To Haves

Engineering experience in a dynamic manufacturing environment
Bachelor’s or Advanced Degree in Engineering or Applied Science
Understanding of finance and business drivers, able to communicate engineering changes on long term plans
Strong oral and written communication skills, ability to communicate across levels and within a complex matrix
Background in mechanical systems and electrical troubleshooting
Expert level locomotive knowledge in required commercial testing
Managerial level presentation skills, must be able to sell ideas and influence others
Outgoing, energetic, passionate, and positive attitude about change
Willingness to interact with customers and visitors to explain the testing procedures
Strategic and clear thinker that solves and prevents problems
Innovative thinker, able to come with new ideas and willing to take risks to creatively solve issues
Life-long learner who will remain coachable – passion around continuous and technology improvements

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain manufacturing methods and create process routings and manufacturing instructions
Create locomotive test plans using engineering system functional specifications with input from manufacturing test team
Design and build / procure necessary tooling and finishing within budgets
Lead team in learning new test processes by education the production team on prototype locomotive builds
Support equipment upgrades and conduct cost / benefit analysis for process changes
Drive process improvement / cycle reduction initiatives via safety and productivity improvements
Manage high impact process and quality improvement projects yielding significant reduction in defects and increased productivity in the work group / department
Assist in out of process testing issues by providing troubleshooting expertise with input from remote monitoring and diagnostics team
Provide supporting documentation to enhance training for new test technicians
Utilize lean-manufacturing principles and participate in action workouts to improve process capability, reduce overall costs and increase capacity
Collaborate with other salary staff on the test support team to cover responsibilities and share in equal workload distribution