Engineering Manager

JVIS USA; Tiffin (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

JVIS USA in Tiffin, OH seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team responsible for process development in injection and blow molding, drilling, heat staking, welding and assembly. The manager will drive design release, Lean initiatives, and cost reduction to meet customer specifications and target costs.

You will allocate resources, review process controls, lead Kaizen activities, and coordinate capital projects, ensuring ISO/TS 16949 alignment and effective collaboration with

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in manufacturing environments.
• Strong knowledge of lean and process improvement methodologies.
• Familiarity with APQP, PPAP and ISO/TS 16949 requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support product launch strategy.
• Develop and maintain project timelines.
• Identify open items and resolve issues.
• Determine staffing needs and development requirements.
• Review mold design and suggest improvements.
• Lead process flow optimization and waste reduction.
• Ensure compliance with ISO/TS 16949 and APQP/PPAP requirements.

Skills

Lean Manufacturing

Kaizen

APQP/PPAP

Project management

Process improvement

Mold tooling design

Leadership

ISO/TS 16949

Quality systems

Job description

SUMMARY: The Engineering Manager and Engineering Team will be responsible for providing technical support for all aspects of production from design release forward. The Engineering Manager will take the lead in engineering activities in the area of injection and blow molding, drilling operations, heat staking, welding and assembly, in order to obtain optimum productivity and quality levels while complying with customer specifications.
The Engineering Manager is responsible for the overall development and administration of the Engineering Process at the TWID Tiffin Plant. Through input from the customer, corporate and plant staff, the Engineering Manager will allocate resources to manufacture quality products in an effective and economical manner. The primary responsibilities will be to establish and review process controls, emphasize continuous improvement through Lean Manufacturing methodology and Kaizen activities, to participate in the development of cell and overall plant layouts, set up reduction (SN/IED), lead time reduction, improve productivity through waste reduction. In addition, the Engineering Manager will be responsible for achieving product target cost, improved efficiency, identifying possible production problems for existing products.
As a part of the plant leadership team, the Engineering Manager will be involved with determining project capital needs, launch strategies, project timing, process flows, labor and machine standards. All proposed plans for changes to the process, equipment, molds, and tooling are to be reviewed by the Engineering Manager to ensure reliability and compatibility with existing Toledo Molding and Die standards/systems.
Finally, Manager will be required to support multiple projects and work with the plant to obtain third part registration to ISO/TS 16949 standards.
The Engineering Manager reports directly to the Plant Manager.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Include The Following.

• Support product launch strategy
• Support and maintain project timeline
• Participate in identifying open items issues
• Determines staffing needs and employee development requirements
• Completed annual personnel performance appraisals and training objectives
• Review mold and secondary fixture design and make recommendations
• Develop workflow, effective layout and optimize processes
• Assist in quoting and contracting tool sources to build support tooling
• Evaluate and implement process/product improvements
• Work with the team to develop tooling and poke yoke methods
• Assist with training of both technical and production in processing standards
• Develops short and long term strategy to support customer requirements
• Authorizes engineering change notices (deviations), process alerts, purchase orders, equipment spare parts inventory, and personnel training requests
• Supports plant safety rules, UAW contract, procedures and standards
• Approves department expenses and appropriations requirements
• Leads Manufacturing Engineers in the development of project launch strategy, capital needs, program timing in support of all APQP, PPAP, and ISO/TS 16949 requirements

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