Mercedes Benz - MTM Expert / Industrial Engineer — Automotive Assembly
- Location: MBUSI - VANCE, AL
- Schedule: Day Shift
- Core working Hours: 7:00am - 4:30pm
Job overview:
We are seeking an experienced MTM specialist to support a new automotive manufacturing project for our client, Mercedes-Benz. The contractor will join an existing MTM specialist and establish reliable labor-time standards, evaluate assembly methods, and identify opportunities to improve productivity and workstation design. Depending on experience and project needs, the assignment may expand into assembly line planning.
Job Responsibilities:
- Analyze planned and existing assembly operations using Methods-Time Measurement (MTM) and the client’s approved time standards.
- Develop and maintain documented work methods, operation sequences, and standard-time calculations.
- Evaluate work content against takt time and identify workload imbalances, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
- Provide labor-time and staffing inputs to production and process planners.
- Assess how product variants, engineering changes, tooling, and workstation arrangements affect assembly time.
- Collaborate with production, manufacturing engineering, logistics, and ergonomics teams to develop practical improvements.
- Validate planning assumptions during trials and production ramp-up, updating analyses as processes change.
Required qualifications
- Demonstrated practical experience applying MTM in automotive assembly or a comparable manufacturing environment.
- Relevant MTM training or certification and the ability to explain and substantiate time analyses.
- Understanding of manual assembly processes, standard work, takt time, line balancing, and ergonomic work design.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
- Engineering or industrial engineering education, or equivalent relevant experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Mercedes-Benz manufacturing standards and time-analysis systems.
- Knowledge of Mercedes-Benz C-values, where applicable to the project.
- Experience supporting new vehicle programs or production launches.
- Assembly line planning experience, including allocation of work to stations and capacity evaluation.