Giga-Casting Manufacturing and Supply Chain Consultant

Job Title: Giga-Casting Manufacturing and Supply Chain Consultant

Job Number: 349357

Category: MFG & Supply Chain SBU

Location: Remote / travel within domestic U.S.

Shift: Flexible as needed (often times days)

Deployment: project deployment to customer locations as needed

Position Overview:
As a subcontracted advisor through Belcan, you will deploy to our customers as needed to support projects related to Giga-Casting Manufacturing and Supply Chain engineering needs. As critical project issues and needs for crisis intervention arise, this job will deploy to those customers. This job is a flexible, subcontract 1099 or LLC status. Ideal candidates will have strong giga-casting manufacturing, design, and supply chain leadership skills capable of driving measurable solutions and outcomes for clients. In this role, you will be on site at customers and/or customer suppliers working to assess, mitigate, consult, identify, and administer outcomes.

Core Job Duties:

1. Deploy and travel to the customer(s) as needed.
2. Act as an advisor and consult customer by working as a team member ensuring critical customer needs are met.
3. Troubleshoot major giga-casting process problems, evaluate scrap out-of-flow material, and implement or develop new approaches and special projects to solve the issues.
4. Troubleshoot, evaluate, and make suggestions involving the giga-casting assembly process, machinery, tooling, gage alternatives, etc.
5. Provide VSM (Value Stream Mapping), Lean, Kaizens, Cycle-time studies, and workload balancing.
6. Review, define, identify, analyze, and resolve all process, forms, drawing characteristics, data, discrepancies, inspections, paperwork, and flow associated with giga-casting before on-site processing.
7. Heavily involved with presenting on-site information processes, customer procedures, supporting documentation, forms, drawings, production, inspections, quality resolution, etc.
8. Identify, act, and complete efforts related to PFMEA's and effects of failure and the recommended actions and assignments for preventative and corrective needs.
9. Develop and complete RFT's (Right the First Time), time studies, cycle time, MSA evaluations, etc.
10. Write and create new work instructions, update existing work instructions, and make edits for new and existing parts.
11. Assist, edit, troubleshoot, and resolve needs within the giga-casting manufacturing process, various APQP processes, package and relocation support, supply chain, CNC machines and programming, cutting tools, components and parts, unique parts, scrap, etc.
12. Communicate and interact with shop floor personnel, quality/process teams, customer management teams, material teams, purchasing teams, and other engineers involved in the process.

Core Skills and Qualifications:

1. 10 plus years' experience as a seasoned specialist and Subject Matter Expert (SME) within giga-casting manufacturing and supply chain.
2. Capable of operating onsite alone to professionally represent Belcan to support multiple parties' interests (Customer/Supplier).
3. Operate with speed and precision.
4. Ability to travel as needed and deploy rapidly at short notice to begin work due to assessment, supply chain disruptions, and project improvement initiatives.
5. Background working with Automotive/Aerospace/Industrial OEMs, suppliers, and/or tooling and machine operations.
6. Demonstrated capability to accurately assess deficiencies in giga-casting manufacturing processes and possesses the technical know-how to troubleshoot and solve complex manufacturability problems.
7. Must have experience in both short and long-term improvement projects, with demonstrated capability to gain consensus and implement manufacturing process improvements.
8. Proficient in understanding and performance drivers of contracted KPIs.
9. Root cause analysis and lean methodologies to aid in throughput, quality, and capacity-related issues.

Other Relevant Skills:

1. Mechanical aptitude and an understanding of design for manufacturing concepts.
2. Hands-on experience in the shop/manufacturing environment.
3. Understanding of Mechanics of Materials and Structural Design.
4. Knowledge of CAD Modeling (2D, 3D).
5. Proficiency in MS Office products.
6. Experience with cost reduction.

If you are interested in this Giga-Casting Manufacturing and Supply Chain Engineer job, please apply via the 'apply now' link provided.

EOE/F/M/D/V