Indiana Projects Engineer

TS Tech Americas, Inc. is a leading global automotive tier one supplier with 72 locations in 14 countries. Our commitment to quality has resulted in the organization winning the prestigious JD Powers award for seat quality. We have an immediate need for a New Model Engineer for our New Castle, In office. Excellent benefits package, and bonus are available for qualifying candidates.

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ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Involvement in the installation of new manufacturing equipment and work closely with equipment suppliers, installation teams and TSAM R&D to successfully transition production to full utilization and maturation.

• Liaise with equipment suppliers for problem resolution, etc.

• Examine manufacturing processes, drive and facilitate improvements (kaizen) of workflow, working with other departments in order to innovate data driven improvement projects related to quality, productivity and other management index analysis and use sustainable solutions to improve product output and quality as well as reduce costs.

• Understand and efficiently identify current process limitations, perform root cause and propose creative solutions for path forward under minimum supervision using OEE, scrap and overtime data pulled from Ujigami.

• Ability to locate, read and understand applicable information (DWG, BOM, SPEC, PPC, Concept Standards) etc.

• Support prototype and testing builds.

• Experience with 3D CAD software (Catia, SolidWorks, eDrawings).

• Creates and maintains schedule for development, specification maturation, appearance verification, and Mass Production start-up support.

• Identifies, tracks, and prioritizes resolution of project concerns.

• Develop Process Layout, determine specification of Equipment, Jigs and Tools to achieve the highest efficient production process.

• Ability to ensure schedules and CAD models/drawings are accurate and stay on track while meeting all standard procedures and conforming to ISO policies.

• Support department innovation through benchmarking, proof of concept, research activities and development proposals (products and business process).

• Demonstrates overall engineering aptitude (engineering fundamentals).

• Has high knowledge base of TS Tech products and requirements.

• Track and maintain design related issues and propose countermeasures per schedule.

• Support the development and proposal of reoccurrence prevention methods.

• Effectively communicate between production, PE and scheduling departments to create and implement countermeasure activity and improvement schedules utilizing production downtime.

• Provide reports to upper management as requested/needed (return on investments) etc.

• Utilize preventative quality techniques to improve product quality, reduce in-line defects, and reduce scrap.

  
  

Maintenance Specific Duties

• Develop and create individual shim boxes per machine with shim packs premeasured for specific areas of machines/details.

• Develop and create consumable replacement kits for all equipment where applicable (high wear plastic work rest features, part alignment details, etc.)

• Develop high priority parts list per machine and minimum/maximum numbers of each.

• Keep all machine CAD drawings up to date with new revisions, etc. for PE department to refer to.

• Create machine concept, jig/cell concept, welding concept and fixture check concept books using DWG and Japan Standards for all maintenance and weld technicians to utilize when needed.

  
  

Engineering Specific Duties

• Assist in creation of Poke Yoke checks per machine.

• Assist in creation of Red Rabbits per machine.

• Assist in improvement and deployment of Vision/Cameras/3D Scanners.

• Assist in acquisition of list of part numbers of all cylinder, sensors, details, pins, etc. per machine to improve downtime.

  
  

Quality Specific Duties

• Investigation, recreation activity/countermeasure implementation of any and all TTR’s, RFI’s and HTR’s received by the customer or sister facilities.

• Implementation of countermeasures initiated by TTR’s, RFI’s and HTR’s received by the customer or sister facilities.

• Understand and maneuver through Polyworks to come up with potential adjustments needed, and schedules for level up/shimming activity to ensure parts meet specifications and tolerances.