Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Yanfeng

Monroe (MI)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 190,000

Full time

3 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous paid vacation

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401k match

Life and disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Company discount program

Job summary

Yanfeng seeks an experienced engineering leader to act as the single point technical contact for customer engagements, coordinating product engineers and designers to address complex topics.

You will build relationships with OEM engineering decision makers, understand product issues and opportunities for improvements, and guide program teams to deliver multi-part systems that meet customer requirements while applying YFAI standards.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required or equivalent.
Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
Experience leading engineering teams and cross-functional projects.
Strong understanding of BOS, EHS, Product Safety, Compliance and IT information security.

Responsibilities

Provide single point technical contact on engineering topics and issues.
Lead engineers and designers and coordinate cross-functional teams.
Build relationships with OEM engineering decision makers.
Ensure OEMs understand technological and manufacturing capabilities.
Support program-specific issues and communicate significant launch risks.
Lead a group of engineers to develop multi-part systems to customer requirements.
Implement YFAI standards and systems (BOS, PLUS, Lean, CPP, CMP, EPIC, BEP).

Skills

Leadership

Technical liaison

Program management

Customer engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

ABB robots

Fanuc robots

Kuka robots

IMGL vac forming

IMGS vac forming

Job description

Yanfeng is a leading global automotive supplier, focusing on interior, exterior, seating, cockpit electronics, and passive safety, and is exploring new business actively. Yanfeng has more than 240 locations and approximately 57,000 employees worldwide. The technical team of 4,200 experts is in 10 R&D centers and other regional offices, with complete capabilities including engineering and software development, styling, and test validation. Focusing on smart cabin and lightweight technology, Yanfeng supports automakers to explore future mobility and provide leading cabin solutions. For more information, please visit www.yanfeng.com.

Job Summary

Provide single point technical contact on engineering and technical topics and issues. Direct reports may include product engineers and designers.

Main Responsibilities

Understand customer engineering organization, and build relationships with engineering and technology key “decision makers”.
Understand customer product issues and opportunities for product improvements.
Ensure OEM engineering groups understand technical and manufacturing capabilities.
Support teams with program specific issues.
Inform customer engineering leadership of significant launch or production related issues (“no surprises”).
Provide single contact point to OEM engineering.
Provides Leadership to his Group following the YFAI leadership expectation model
Prepares strategic decisions
Plan resources and budgets
Communicates with peer engineering managers and shares best business practices
Leads group of lead engineers and engineers / technicians to develop a multi part product (system) or multi step processes to a set of requirements defined by “customer”.
Responsible for using all YFAI standards and systems (BOS, PLUS, Lean, CPP, CMP, EPIC, BEP)