Job Summary:
Supports Engineering and NPI tasks, documentation, production, and follow-up. Coordinates Engineering, NPI, Production, Quality, Planning, Procurement, and suppliers for production readiness. Maintains Epicor ERP product/manufacturing data: part, material, BOM, MOM, WI/OMS, and engineering change records.
Key Responsibilities
1. Engineering Assistant Support Roles.
- Support NPI engineers in preparing and launching new products.
- Monitor assigned NPI activities and follow-up actions.
- Coordinate NPI requirements across Production, Quality, Planning, and Procurement.
- Compile information for production-readiness reviews.
- Monitor NPI schedules, unresolved issues, and required actions.
- Support engineering trials, pilot runs, and initial builds.
2. Epicor ERP & Part Master Data
- Create and maintain Epicor ERP part numbers in line with approved engineering requirements.
- Keep part descriptions, revisions, and required master data current.
- Obtain and maintain material master codes.
- Build and maintain multi-level BOMs.
- Maintain main/parent-to-child/component relationships.
- Validate BOM data against approved drawings, specifications, and engineering documents.
- Revise ERP data following approved engineering changes.
- Ensure ERP data remains accurate, complete, and controlled.
3. MOM / WI / OMS Documentation
- Prepare and revise Manufacturing Operation Sheets (MOM) as directed.
- Keep Work Instructions (WI) and Operation Manufacturing Specifications (OMS) current.
- Revise process flows and manufacturing documents to meet approved requirements.
- Align documents with current drawings, specifications, BOMs, and process data.
- Control document filing and revisions.
- Draft technical write-ups and production documents.
4. Engineering Change / ECN Support
- Upload ECO/ECN, Change Notices (ECN), and approved engineering changes to the Epicor ECO portal.
- Maintain ECN/change-control numbers and related documents in Epicor.
- Revise affected BOMs, MOMs, WIs, OMS, and Epicor data after approved changes.
- Coordinate accurate change implementation across relevant departments.
- Remove or flag obsolete information in accordance with document-control requirements.
- Preserve traceability between engineering changes and affected parts/processes.
5. Production Engineering Support
- Provide daily Production technical support under NPI/Engineering direction.
- Investigate manufacturing issues and gather production data.
- Resolve process, tooling, and assembly issues through troubleshooting.
- Support process trials and improvement activities.
- Monitor production problems and escalation that require engineering decisions.
- Support new-product ramp-up and process stabilization.
Job Requirement
- Education: NITEC/Higher Nitec/Diploma
- Experience: 0–2 years
- Engineering responsibility: Low to moderate
- Problem-solving skills: Assist engineers with data, measurements, documentation, and follow-up.
- NPI: Assist NPI activities
- Documentation: Update and maintain documentation
- ERP / Epicor: Enter and maintain data under direction.
- Production support: Provide technical assistance and follow-up.
- Tooling / Process: Assist tooling/process activities
- Decision making: Escalate engineering decisions
- Project ownership: Assist projects