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POSITION INFO:
PURPOSE OF JOB:
Provides expertise in engineering that improves product, process and equipment performance (cost, quality and service) and/or advances the APQP process to enable the delivery of new products. Provides solutions for increased process selects, increased material utilization, decreased costs and improvement to product quality for series production and when implementing new products. Is a leader in obtaining fundamental process understanding and meeting the lowest cost producer objectives.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provides leadership in problem solving and technical expertise to ensure timely resolution of short-term process and equipment issues, and higher-level troubleshooting.
- Provides direction to other technicians / engineers, coaches junior engineers and provides guidance to maintenance and quality personnel.
- Provides general engineering and manufacturing skills and knowledge (understands theories and fundamentals) and capable of leading projects to get to the root cause of issues and put permanent solutions in place.
- Provides project inputs across multiple stages of APQP for new product, process, cost reduction and capacity improvement initiatives.
- Recommends and implements permanent solutions to long term performance issues and improves existing and new technologies and process.
- Develops and leads some areas of the manufacturing and/or technical roadmap. Documents material, process and/or equipment to protect and contribute to Intellectual Property improvements.
- Proficient in use of statistical data analysis and DOE in process problem solving and process/product improvement.
- Identifies, justifies and implements cost reduction, capacity enhancement, capital equipment and other improvement initiatives.
- Meets all Environmental, Safety and Health requirements.
- Develops SME knowledge of material, process and /or equipment in focused areas of manufacturing or engineering.
- Is a leader and Subject Matter Expert (SME) in process control/discipline, SPC, SQC, OEE, Designed Experiments, and other Performance Excellence processes (Green and Black belt skills).
- Approve MSA studies and present to DIV Measurements Review Board / Transparency Board.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
Ability to apply numerical theory, statistics, computational techniques, algorithms, and the latest computer technology to solve scientific, engineering, and business problems.
Experiences / Education Required:
- Bachelor of Science or equivalent in technical field
- 6-Sigma Green Belt certified
- Lean Fundamentals
- Track record of delivering results
- Broad manufacturing and engineering experiences
- Project leadership (scope to implementation)
- Coaching and developing junior engineers / technicians
Software applications knowledge requirements:
- Proficient in Microsoft excel (ability to create macro’s or visual basic for applications(VBA), pivot tables and the use of SPC add-ins)
- Proficient in Power BI (ability to create or use datasets from databases and/or Excel to build dashboards and reports)
- Basic SQL understanding and coding (Basic database understanding and querying with T-SQL)
- Understanding of PLC’s, Matlab, OPC or similar applications (Good understanding of PLC, communication protocols and historians to extract data for analyses and visualization)
- Sound knowledge of Minitab or equivalent, including deep understanding of ANOVA
- Basic understanding of writing algorithms based on sound statistical principles.
Experiences / Education Desired:
- Bachelor of Science (Engineering)
- 6-Sigma Black Belt certified
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