Manufacturing Engineer

Position: Manufacturing Engineer

Duration: 1-year long term contract + potential for perm & extensions

Location: Sterling Heights, MI

Compensation: $35/hr to $38/hr

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.

Travel: approx. 10 trips to SE MI per year

Must Haves:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Automotive Manufacturing Engineering experience as a Process Engineer (3+ years)
• Automotive launch experience, installation of equipment for launches
• Experience w/automotive assembly and machining tooling, processes, and facilities
• Machining process knowledge
• Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience

Plusses:

• Experience working with gears: hypoid or bevel gears
• Hypoid gear process understanding (blanking, grinding, lapping, honing, shot peening) – gear cutting experience

Position Duties:

This position provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to delivering New Model Powertrain Programs. Support development and implementation of Crankshafts and Gears manufacturing systems for new powertrain programs in southeast Michigan.

• Utilize machining process knowledge, particularly steel and iron metal cutting and grinding to deliver an efficient and optimized process regarding quality, costs, timing, and footprint.
• Lead equipment installation, power on, run capability, and equipment handover to the powertrain plants.
• Initiate bids, evaluate, recap bids for equipment purchase; work with Purchasing to write and place orders.
• Work with OEMs, suppliers, Product, and Plant engineering teams to resolve engineering and program delivery issues.
• Interface and coordinate project related items such as facilities, safety, ergonomics, material handling & kitting, tooling, and gauging.
• Support discrete event simulation for constraint analysis; work with Industrial Engineers (IE) to assess and improve throughput.
• Travel up to 100% to SE Michigan and Ohio Manufacturing Plants during equipment installation and launch.