Senior Manufacturing Engineer: TPM & Uptime Leader

GE Appliances; Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

GE Appliances, a Haier company, is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to maintain and improve electrical and mechanical equipment in a Louisville, KY production area. You will provide technical leadership, manage maintenance programs, and drive uptime and cost reductions while coordinating with AMEs and plant leadership.

The role requires a BS in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, strong PLC/diagnostic skills, and experience in a high-volume production setting with union operators.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or other equivalent technical work experience.
• Ability to implement long-term plans into day-to-day operations.
• Demonstrated Project Management skills.
• Proven Mechanical and Electrical/PLC Diagnostic and Technical Skills required.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, program management, and expertise to Plant Operations.
• Be the single point of contact for technical changes to assigned areas and accountable for decision making process.
• Improve and direct Preventive Maintenance plan for assigned area.
• Root cause-based troubleshooting, schematic reading, PLC's and ladder logic programming, variable frequency drives, Ethernet communications, Vision Systems and safety procedures such as Lock Out -Tag Out.
• Support all plant objectives in the areas of EHS, Schedule Attainment, Spoilage & Yield, Labor & Overtime, Productivity, Spare Parts cost controls and Lean Manufacturing.
• Execute routine equipment purchases, to include presenting justification for capital expenses or process improvements, design and specification of equipment and standardization of equipment within manufacturing methods and safety requirements.
• First response to our maintenance employees when guidance or assistance is required.
• Establish, develop, implement and sustain world-class practices in our Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program and drive continuous improvement in the areas of uptime and cost controls.
• Coordinate with Advanced Manufacturing Engineer (AME) efforts to ensure operational efficiency goals are met.
• Provide support, direction and training to AMEs, Process Improvement Engineers, maintenance, systems and shop projects with specification, drawings, equipment/process acceptance, and troubleshooting.
• Initiate and integrate activities to resolve repetitive production problems and implement preventive maintenance programs on key pieces of equipment to improve process output reliability.
• Provide leadership to hourly maintenance employees to ensure day-to-day production requirements.
• Establish measured work practices for maintenance employees, to include documentation of work performed and the time required to perform it.
• Provide training and aid in troubleshooting and downtime response in specified area of expertise.
• Drive uptime and equipment reliability improvements through simplification activities.
• Own the 5S in the area and enforce adherence.
• Relocation will be provided.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Project management

Leadership

PLC diagnostics

Electrical troubleshooting

Shop floor troubleshooting

Communication

Team building

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Vision Systems

Job description

GE Appliances, a Haier company, is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to maintain and improve electrical and mechanical equipment in a Louisville, KY production area. You will provide technical leadership, manage maintenance programs, and drive uptime and cost reductions while coordinating with AMEs and plant leadership.

The role requires a BS in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, strong PLC/diagnostic skills, and experience in a high-volume production setting with union operators.