About This Role
Directing and overseeing the day-to-day activities associated with providing world-class quality and manufacturing engineering technical support to manufacturing areas is the core of this role. This position ensures that customer expectations are met or exceeded.
Responsibilities
- Identify and implement improvements with manufacturing teams that reduce product cost, improve quality, and maximize customer satisfaction
- Ensure the maximum safety, quality, capability, and utilization of manufacturing/processing equipment and processes
- Continuously research and implement “Best Practice” manufacturing and processing methods
- Lead new product introductions and current product modifications to the manufacturing floor
- Review and quote processing and production equipment and tools
- Ensure that effective documentation and control systems are developed, utilized, and maintained
- Lead the manufacturing team to define, justify, and coordinate the purchase and implementation of new equipment and processes; perform capacity analysis, track tooling and AR expenditures
- Assist and/or lead specific elements in the APQP/NPDP process, including selections of special characteristics for product and build processes
- Lead in the design and build of manufacturing/assembly/processing equipment and processes
- Resolve and prevent issues through robust problem-solving methodologies (8D’s, 5 Why’s, A3s, etc.)
- Coordinate or perform as needed, process diagnostics, maintenance, repairs, calibrations, and operating procedures
- Coordinate and perform special studies, DOE’s, and capacity/capability analysis
- Review and disposition on non-conforming materials
- Represent BorgWarner on related issues
- Prepare and make presentations to customers, employees, and all levels of the management team
- Manage customer portals for assigned activities, i.e., corrective actions, capacity reports, warranty management, SCR’s, etc.
- Lead fast response meeting for customer complaints and corrective action follow up to on-time completion
- Coordinate and manage outside contract projects
- Coordinate and manage specialized processes such as heat treating, welding, soldering, etc.
- Lead and utilize a teamwork approach to achieve departmental objectives (safety, scrap, FTT, others)
- Provide technical leadership, training, and support to manufacturing teams as well as to peers
- Use of required PPE; following safety rules and procedures and training others; compliance with plant code of conduct
- Attendance and participation at safety and health training sessions
- Lead and promote the 5S Standards
- Lead and promote by example BW Beliefs
