Production Welding Engineer II — Kaizen & Process Improvement

TNA Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Company; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care benefits

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. is seeking an Engineer II - Production Engineering (Body weld) to support the development of new model processes and deliver improvements in safety, quality, and efficiency.

The role emphasizes collaboration with internal customers and stakeholders to link initiatives to KPIs. Reporting to the Operations Manager, the engineer will drive countermeasures, Kaizen opportunities, and project tracking while coordinating with NAMC and GO&A

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering or Technology field or at least 5 years’ experience in related manufacturing environment
• Willing to work up to 25% overtime
• Willing to travel 25% to support go-and-see, confirm production changepoints, meet with and support customers and stakeholders onsite at NAMC

Responsibilities

• Develop countermeasures or direction proposals and distill critical decision points to evaluate only necessary judgment criteria that link to project goals / group KPIs and build consensus among correct stakeholders
• Coaching others through task-based activity in area of expertise
• Creating accurate schedule with clear project milestones to assigned and self-identified scope
• Have skill and initiative to navigate complex scenarios, ability to work through task within silo/scope and can communicate escalation needs effectively
• Identifies Kaizen opportunities and collaborates with working group to complete countermeasures and demonstrates ability to yokoten within team and group
• Achieving self-made schedule in standard time with complex scope of work
• Developing process plans, proposals, schedules, and project tracking based on early planning assumptions

Skills

Power BI

AutoCAD

CAD software (CATIA/Delmia/Carott3)

Project management

Welding equipment knowledge

2D/3D CAD interpretation

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering or Technology

Tools

AutoCAD

CATIA/Delmia/Carott3

Job description

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. is seeking an Engineer II - Production Engineering (Body weld) to support the development of new model processes and deliver improvements in safety, quality, and efficiency.

The role emphasizes collaboration with internal customers and stakeholders to link initiatives to KPIs. Reporting to the Operations Manager, the engineer will drive countermeasures, Kaizen opportunities, and project tracking while coordinating with NAMC and GO&A