Manufacturing Engineer - Mach

Ford México; Chihuahua; Presencial; MXN 739,000 - 1,017,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading automotive manufacturer located in Chihuahua is seeking a skilled maintenance engineer. The role includes responsibility for optimizing equipment programs, training personnel, and managing maintenance actions. Candidates must have a strong communication ability and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience is preferred. This position may require significant travel and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Formación

• Flexible to significant travel
• 3-5 years’ experience in manufacturing
• Ability to train personnel effectively

Responsabilidades

• Responsible for FTPM activities within the department
• Coordinate maintenance actions and ensure safety standards
• Drive maintenance cost and budget control

Conocimientos

Optimize equipment programs

Excellent communicator

Self-starter

Leadership skills

Interpersonal skills

Coaching skills

Problem-solving

Educación

High School Diploma

Bachelor Degree in Engineering

Herramientas

AutoCAD

PLC

Descripción del empleo

Minimum Requirements

• Education: High School Diploma
• Experience:
  • Ability to optimize equipment programs and troubleshoot issues to identify root cause
  • Excellent communicator who can train both hourly and salary team members
  • Must be a self‑starter who will take ownership of projects and see them through to completion with limited supervision
  • Candidate must be flexible to significant travel
  • Successful candidate must be able to demonstrate leadership in ONE FORD (leadership) behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Responsible for FTPM activities within the department
• Coordinate and plan maintenance actions (Preventive, Planned and Crisis Maintenance)
• Ensure all safety standards are met during maintenance activities
• Optimization of current production processes
• Coaching plants in continuous improvement, standardization, and lean concepts
• Assisting plants in addressing equipment downtime issues
• Developing preventative / predictive maintenance practices to ensure 100% equipment uptime
• Training and education of plant personnel and leadership
• Providing input on new equipment design and purchase
• Supporting new model / equipment launch as required
• Lead quality related actions that imply machine reliability improvements
• Be point of contact to Plant Engineering, local vendors and commodity suppliers regarding equipment issues
• Drive maintenance cost and budget control
• Drive maintenance metrics within the department
• Issue regular reports on maintenance metrics
• Ensure all areas operate to FPS tools and FTPM initiatives
• Motivate teams to provide ideas to improve equipment availability and document in R&M reports
• Support and coach problem solving activities within the department, mainly focused on reliability and maintainability
• Coordinate Maintenance Planning and Shutdown Planning actions within the department
• Support Work Group and Department meetings regarding equipment improvement and JPH actions
• Participate actively in JPH Roadmap reviews
• Provide technical assistance to personnel and areas where necessary
• Identify training needs for skilled employees, coordinate training plan for the department
• Work with CORA, MAXIMO, QLSCM, POSMON and any other required system
• Coordinate skilled personnel during breakdowns to fix the issue with minimal disturbance on production. Ensure resources are planned during the line breaks
• Participate in interplant benchmarking exercises
• Actively participate in Simultaneous Engineering meetings, Forward Planning and Product Design to ensure maintainability standards are followed

Preferred Requirements

• Education: Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Industrial or Electrical/Automation engineering preferred. Equivalent experience accepted
• Experience: 3-5 years’ experience in manufacturing; stamping experience preferred
• Robot / interpress transfer (ABB / Fanuc / Gudel)
• Stamping / press equipment
• Vision Experience Strongly Preferred (Cognex)
• PLC competency
• Lean implementation
• AutoCAD