Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Purpose of the Position: Responsible for developing manufacturing processes, defining machines specifications, managing equipment suppliers progress, validating equipment and processes, improving operational efficiency through equipment layout and engineering, product design/redesign and overall production process improvements, adhering to Electricfil guidelines and procedures.
Job duties
New Products
- Proposes processes and equipment to the project leader to achieve customer satisfaction and develops this equipment with suppliers
- Responsible for developing PFMEA
Product and Development
- Develop equipment from requirement phase to final validation for both new equipment and transfer of equipment from other factories in the group.
- Approves modifications of standards for manufacturing of existing products and approves standards for new products.
- Makes lay-outs for workshop and workstations for new products or for important modification.
- Times production for new products or process modifications.
- Improves processes in quality and cost according to the best standard of Electricfil Automotive.
- Responsible of safety of all new manufacturing equipment under his/her responsibility implemented in EFC.
- Responsible of safety and suppliers monitoring during machine set-up in EFC.
- Supports maintenance team in case of issues that maintenance department cannot solve.
Training
- Trains operators and supports on new equipment (i.e., safety, working operations, etc.).
Other
- Added duties as assigned.
Authority :
- To make recommendations relating to equipment, product and the operational efficiency of EFi Automotive, Alabama, to the management of EFi Automotive, France, the Operations Manager, and other EFi team members.
- All employees have a quality and safety responsibility; therefore, having the authority to stop work processes to correct quality and/or safety problems, or quarantine items in the appropriate designated area until the issues are resolved.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities :
- Individual will be held accountable for achieving defined Individual and Continuous Improvement objectives.
- The individual will be responsible for working effectively with other departments that need to be part of EFi Automotive, including involvement of our engineers and management in Beynost, France.
- Participate in customer audits.
- Strictly adhere to Company Safety and other policies as documented in EFi Automotive (Alabama) Handbook.
Reporting:
- Maintain project plans including product and equipment requirements, budgets, workforce, technical objectives, schedules, project, and product cost estimates.
- Equipment Validation, Plan & Report (EVP&R) documents.
- Analyze functional test data and propose potential failure modes to team.
Internal and/or external contacts :
- (Internally) Individual will interface with management & all levels of personnel within the organization.
- (Internally) Individual will collaborate closely with other engineers at EFi Automotive, locally and globally, as needed.
- (Internally) Individual will work closely with maintenance, quality, and environmental health and safety on projects related to equipment, process improvements, product improvements, etc.
- (Externally) Individual will interface with customer and vendor representatives, including participation in customer audits and visits as requested.
Staff: NA
Budget: NA
Revenue: NA
Expenditure: NA
Job requirements
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Industrial, Mechanical, or Electrical)
- Two (2) to five (5) years of related work experience
- Previous experience in manufacturing engineering or in maintenance department is preferred
- Proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office Suite of software, AutoCAD, Solidworks, or other 3D software.
- Knowledge of PLC programming preferred.
- General Automation experience preferred.
- Ability to read pneumatic and electrical schematics and troubleshoot equipment.
- Methodical, capable of analyzing technical problems and providing a concise written summary to management.
Special knowledge (languages, IT, etc.):
- Communication/negotiation/meeting facilitation.
- Fluent in business English, IT literate.
Functional capacity requirements:
Note: In terms of an 8-hour workday, “Occasionally” equals 1% to 33%; “Frequently” equals 34% to 66%, and “Continuously” equals 67% to 100% of the time.
In an 8-hour workday the jobholder should be able to:
- Frequently sit.
- Frequently stand and walk.
- Occasionally bend/stoop, squat, twist, push/pull, kneel and crouch.
- Occasionally reach above shoulder level.
- Occasionally carry/lift up to fifty (50) pounds, as in a case of paper or a file box.
- Continuously use his/her hands/fingers for the repetitive actions of simple and firm manipulation/grasping, as in operating a computer keyboard or touch tone telephone.
- Occasionally use his/her head and neck in flexing and rotating.
- Continuously be around manufacturing working conditions.
- Continuously be in a climate (heated/air-conditioned) controlled environment.
- Continuously be around moving machinery.
- Work in an ESD controlled Environment
Signature HR Manager:
Signature Industrialization Manager:
Signature Process Engineer:
Revision History
Rev 1
11/23/2016
Initial Release
Rev 2
12/19/2023
Format change
W. Leslie
Job Tags
Work experience placement, Work at office, Flexible hours,