Process Engineer

Faurecia; Gqeberha; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Faurecia South Africa is seeking a Process Engineer to support process development, standardization, and tooling management at its Port Elizabeth facility. The role emphasizes continuous improvement, problem-solving, and collaboration with production, suppliers, and design teams.

You will validate innovations, deploy process guidelines, and help ensure manufacturability while maintaining a robust database of tooling and equipment.

Qualifications

• Education requirements include a National Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering or Tool maker trade.
• Experience of 3–5 years in an industrial environment is preferred, automotive experience is a plus.
• Proven technical skills in process and product engineering and strong problem-solving ability.

Responsibilities

• Support process development and improvement efforts across projects.
• Validate product innovations and ensure deployment of process standards and guidelines.
• Maintain tooling and equipment databases and support capacity management.
• Analyse and implement process modifications and engineering changes.
• Assist with supplier and plant issues related to process engineering.
• Contribute to tooling/equipment follow-up, validation, and start-up activities.
• Promote best practices and ensure product design checklists are applied.
• Participate in simultaneous engineering and ensure manufacturability of designs.
• Support capacity planning and procurement activities for tooling and equipment.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Technical process/product skills

Computer literacy

Education

National Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering or Tool maker trade

Job description

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

Title : Process Engineer

Dept. : ME

Report to : Manufacturing & Engineering Manager

Location : FCM Port Elizabeth

Closing Date : 30 October 2026

The role of a Process Technician is to support process development and improvement, validate product innovations; Ensure development and deployment of process standards, design checklist and guidelines, best practices; and support programs, plants and suppliers for process issues; and maintain a tooling and equipment database.

Main Missions are to:

• Contribute to continuous improvement of processes, tooling and equipment


• Support production or parts suppliers to solve problems related to his/her field of expertise.


• Maintenance of series production: engineering change management: analyse, validate and implement process modifications related to his/her field of expertise.


• Maintain a local database of tooling and equipment to support capacity management.


• Programs: feedback existing status and plant’s recommendations for process issues; participate to tooling and equipment follow-up and validations and support reception and start-up of tooling and equipment.


• Standards and best practices: ensure application of process standards; identify best practices for his/her expertise network.


• Simultaneous Engineering: ensure that checklists and guidelines for product design are applied; validate technology choices; ensure product manufacturability


• Process development: define process solutions and ensure that process standards are applied; follow-up prototypes build (when applicable); Identify available capacity; release tooling and equipment specifications


• Tooling and equipment procurement: support the purchasing organization during suppliers selections and negotiations; follow-up tooling and equipment at suppliers; manage tooling and equipment reception.


• Generic processes: Simultaneous Engineering and product innovation - define and maintain checklists and guidelines for product design; Prepare process inputs and participate to the M3 gate Review of the product innovation process.


• Process improvement and innovation; develop and improve processes related to his/her field of expertise; develop cooperation with equipment suppliers, universities, etc…


• Standardization: define, maintain and improve process standards in his/her field of expertise (tooling, equipment), create and maintain related specifications, ensure that process standards are applied (plants and programs)


• Best practices: Identify and validate best practices in his/her perimeter; Integrate best practices in process guidelines and/or standards; Promote and ensure deployment of best practices


• Capacity management: Maintain and update a database of tooling and equipment related to his/her field of expertise.


• Purchasing: Support the purchasing organization in developing and assisting tooling and equipment suppliers for all issues related to his/her field of expertise

Your profile and competencies to succeed

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience: The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Education : National Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical engineering or Tool maker trade.


• Knowledge of full assembly lines.


• At least 3-5 years’ experience in an industrial environment (automotive preferred)


• Skilled problem solver, Strong Communication Skills. Proven Technical skills in process and product.


• Computer literate

Behaviours:

• Ability to handle pressure; deadline orientated


• Disciplined self starter; Analytical, systematic and logical thinker


• Good attendance is essential

Faurecia supports the principles embodied in the Employment Equity Act and as such, preference will be given to candidates who will add to the diversity of our organization.