Minimum Requirements:

Education: High School Diploma

Experience:

Ability to work any shift as well as rotating shifts and weekends

Ability to work independently with limited supervision

Capable of assigning work to unionized hourly workforce and holding employees accountable for following processes pertaining to daily work assignments in terms safety, quality, and throughput

Strong organizational and administrative skills

Ability to multi-task

Strong problem-solving and conflict management skills

Successful candidate must be able to demonstrate leadership in One FORD (leadership) behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills

Preferred Requirements: 

Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Experience:

Body shop/stamping/paint/subassembly experience preferred

Safety and Quality experience preferred

Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles

Knowledge of constraint management principles

Microsoft Office knowledge (Word/Excel/Outlook)

Prior experience managing a unionized work force

Position Duties:

Coordinates all Process Engineering Specialists in the producion area

Support of daily production meetings working closely with production team to drive all engineering actions across the machining/assembly line to improve JPH and FTT

Ensure changes are properly captured using MTC or APQP processes as appropriate

Ensures line production process  is maintained to meet required quality and productivity targets and keep documentation using 6-Sigma tools

Ensures a propoer response to operations concerns, and lead the use of team based problem solving tools

Coordinates the planning and preparation of engineering projects

Ensures Machinery Specifications used by engineers are  the appropriate as per the standards.

Ensures the quality of the CIB projects in the area of responsibility

Lead Maintenance Operating System (MOS) actions and team

Lead JPH Roadmap process in the production area.

Coordinate FPS activities with the department

Participate in CPMT meetings, representing the plant in multidisciplinary team work

Participate in Employee Suggestion Scheme evaluating suggestions related to his/her production line

Provide process-related training to production team

Work with WERS, CORA, CAD and other required systems when needed.

Coordinate incoming and outgoing information to the Machining/Assembly Area

- Transmittals

- Feasibility Studies

- Releases

- Projects and Investment

- Manage the Change

- Continuous Improvement

- FPS

- Development of new engineers

Lead and coordinate different departments to achieve objectives

Stand in for Team Manager whenever necessary

Participate in interplant benchmarking exercises

Drive DCP and capability studies/Control Plans

Liaise with Forward Planning and Manufacturing Engineering to co-ordinate changes affecting machining simultaneous engineering

Liaise with Product Team, MEO, Production Team and suppliers to develop optimum processes, such as gauging torque strategies, in process testing and hot/cold engine testing

Manage the development of processes through engineering and build to support Prototype programme delivery schedules