Process Control Engineer 2 - (75632-1)
Decatur, IL - Onsite
12 months contract
Job Description
Summary: The main function of a manufacturing engineer is to apply engineering theory and principles to problems of industrial layout or manufacturing production. A typical manufacturing engineer has the ability to make engineering drawings, and read and interpret blueprints.
Job Responsibilities:
- Study time, motion, methods, and speed involved in maintenance, production, and other operations to establish standard production rate and improve efficiency.
- Interpret engineering drawings, schematic diagrams, or formulas and confer with management or engineering staff to determine quality and reliability standards.
- Read worker logs, product processing sheets, and specification sheets, to verify that records adhere to quality assurance specifications.
- Aid in planning work assignments in accordance with worker performance, machine capacity, production schedules, and anticipated delays.
- Prepare charts, graphs, and diagrams to illustrate workflow, routing, floor layouts, material handling, and machine utilization.
Skills:
- Creativity, verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving ability.
- Team player and detail oriented.
- Ability to make sketches, engineering drawings and common computations.
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawing, schematics and computer-generated reports.
- Previous experience with computer applications and software related to engineering field, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD).
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering required.
- 2-4 years experience required.
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- Implementing product supply strategies
- Managing Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Cost management
- Quality assurance of our components/finished products
- Driving Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE)
Job Summary:
Manages part development and quality feedback loops for New Product Introduction (NPI), Continuous Product Improvement (CPI), and New Source Introduction (NSI) related activities by collaborating with suppliers, design control engineers, value chain engineering, and procurement category teams.
What You Will Do:
- Managing Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Cost management related activities from concept to PPAP to deliver parts at the right quality, total cost, and meet timelines. They accomplish this through collaboration with various functional areas like packaging, transportation, business resources, supply chain, etc,.
- Implementing product supply strategies aligned with the category management supply strategies that will create a competitive advantage for our customers by developing, optimizing, and integrating a world-class supply network.
- Managing the quality feedback loops to ensure lessons learned on quality defects are applied across the supply base.
- Driving Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) through cost modeling, design for manufacturability, and leveraging suppliers’ capabilities.
What Skills You Will Have:
Data-driven Decision Making:
- Applies an assigned technique for data-driven thinking in a Decision-Making process.
- Discerns between "signal" and "noise" when interpreting data.
- Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
- Participates in the process of choosing KPIs and metrics to influence decisions.
- Utilizes the basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques.
Analytical Thinking:
- Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
- Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
- Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
- Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
- Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
Effective Communications:
- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
Interpersonal Relationships:
- Explains impact of interactions with individuals and groups.
- Identifies roles and responsibilities for self and others.
- Demonstrates an understanding of alternative points of view.
- Collaborates with departmental associates and management.
- Adapts interaction style to situations and people.
Cost-Benefit Analysis:
- Follows organizational guidelines and procedures for conducting a cost-benefit analysis.
- Participates in the development of a cost-benefit analysis.
- Calculates common measurements such as NPV and ROI.
- Documents and measures direct and indirect costs and projected benefits.
- Resolves common errors or omissions in developing the analysis.
Supplier Management - MFG:
- Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.
- Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.
- Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non-routine issues up chain of command.
- Researches alternative vendors or suppliers; participates in supplier selection.
- Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.
Strategic Sourcing:
- Works with various basic components of strategic sourcing, such as data analysis, market research and purchasing budgets examination.
- Participates in enhancing institutional sourcing process continuously including identifying improvement opportunities.
- Conducts strategic sourcing activities in a limited environment.
- Follows relevant standards, policies and practices regarding strategic sourcing.
- Assists senior sourcing professionals with strategic sourcing in multiple environments.
Supply Chain Management:
- Recognizes software systems or components used to manage supply chain.
- Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.
- Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.
- Summarizes supply chain considerations for different types of products.
- Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.
Reason/motivation for request:
- Backfill
Why Client? “Whether it be ground-breaking products, best in class solutions or a lifelong career, you can build what matters to you at Client. With 150 locations in countries around the world, what you create at Client travels and helps people around the world. You can collaborate with the best minds in the industry, complete meaningful work and continuously grow and develop through our various opportunities. Here, you can do the work that matters.”
Typical task breakdown:
- Implementing product supply strategies aligned with the category management supply strategies that will create a competitive advantage for our customers by developing, optimizing, and integrating a world-class supply network.
- Escalate supplier quality defects to SDEs for an immediate containment
- Managing the quality feedback loops to ensure lessons learned on quality defects are applied across the supply base.
- Managing Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Cost management related activities from concept to PPAP to deliver parts at the right quality, total cost, and meet timelines. They accomplish this through collaboration with various functional areas like packaging, transportation, business resources, supply chain, etc,.
- Extensive use of Teamcenter and Workflow process to collaborate with Engineering, Supplier Development engineer and identify the supplier source for each Buy level parts.
- Driving Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) through cost modeling, design for manufacturability, and leveraging suppliers’ capabilities.
- Support and Present Source change request to meet Quality, Cost and Velocity goal to all stake holders in the Source council meeting.
Interaction with team:
- Frequent interaction with Buyer, Supplier Development Engineer, Engineering team, Quality Team, Engineering Value Chain team.
Work environment:
- Office Setting/Production Manufacturing Environment
Education & Experience Required:
- Years of experience: 3 or more years
- Degree requirement: Bachelor's in Engineering degree preferred, Mechanical, Industrial, and Supply Chain Engineer degrees will be accepted.
- Do you accept internships as job experience: Possibly, depending on relevancy
- Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role:
Additional Technical Skills
(Required)
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, schematic diagrams, or formulas and computer-generated reports
- 3D modeling or Creo experience
- Proficiency in MS Office, Microsoft Excel
- Strong understanding on Manufacturing processes
- Teamcenter
- Six Sigma Processes
- Should Cost Analysis
(Desired)
- Engineering and Sourcing Experience in Electrical harness, Nonmetallic and fabrication will be beneficial.
- Supply chain experience is PLUS
Soft Skills
(Required)
- Ability to work with minimal supervision while driving department goals and deliverables.
- Requires strong analytical and mathematical skills
- Requires strong Oral and written communication skills
- Requires display of attributes of a critical thinker and leverage innovative ideas
- Advanced ability to make and communicate presentations to management
- Strong time management skills
Travel Requirement: 0-25%
Export Control Requirements: Yes
Ravi Teja
615-219-6196
ravi.teja@harveynash.com
