Sr PECC Americas

Textron • Troy, MI

2d

About The Position

Kautex is a global Tier One automotive supplier with more than 30 plants in 13 countries. It designs and manufactures plastic fuel systems, battery enclosures, autonomous cleaning systems, industrial packaging, and cast camshafts. The company describes its work as advancing solutions for new mobility and emphasizes career growth, talent development, equal opportunities, and sustainability.

The Sr PECC Americas serves as the regional single point of contact for engineering changes and coordinates them from plant review and approval through shipment readiness, implementation, and closure. The role maintains regional tracking and dashboard visibility, leads cross-functional meetings, coordinates plant readiness and material transitions, and ensures engineering changes are documented and completed in accordance with applicable standards and customer requirements. The position may require onsite support at plants across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, Manufacturing, or a related field is preferred.
• Manufacturing experience, preferably in the automotive industry.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, bills of materials (BOMs), material planning, and production scheduling.
• Strong organizational, communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Ability to manage multiple changes and priorities while driving actions through completion.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with engineering change management, manufacturing engineering, materials/logistics, program management, or product launches.
• Experience working with PLM and/or ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Americas region’s single point of contact for engineering changes.
• Coordinate engineering changes through plant review, concurrence, regular meetings, approvals, shipment readiness, implementation, and closure.
• Own the regional PECC tracking file and maintain high-visibility reporting through a PowerBI dashboard.
• Lead regular cross-functional engineering change meetings and track actions, owners, timing, risks, and open issues for all plants in the Americas.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Materials & Logistics, Purchasing, Program Management, Finance, EHS, and other affected functions.
• Ensure engineering changes are completed and understood so plant planners can incorporate them into production scheduling and material planning.
• Coordinate phase-in and phase-out activities and assess exposure to obsolete inventory.
• Oversee plant completion of MRP master data and pack instructions to Kautex standards.
• Coordinate material and revision cut-in timing to support controlled transitions into production.
• Maintain accurate change information, plant-specific attributes, documentation, approvals, and implementation evidence in applicable systems.
• Identify and escalate risks, overdue actions, timing conflicts, and readiness gaps that could negatively affect implementation.
• Support continuous improvement of the plant engineering change-management process.
• Understand and support IATF and customer requirements and audits.
• Provide onsite plant support as needed throughout locations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior