Job Description
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
What you will do
At Volvo Trucks North America, New River Valley, you will contribute to the transformation of our company, the transport industry and society at large. You will:
Your future team
Who are you?
We are looking for a highly motivated Manufacturing Engineer to work in a challenging and fast-paced environment where you will work with a highly motivated team on challenging projects. In addition to developing manufacturing equipment and processes, the Manufacturing Engineers work with cross-functional teams throughout the entire product lifecycle. You will work closely with Design Engineering, Quality and Production to take product design changes and new designs from initial concept through prototype development and into full production.
Core Responsibilities
- Provides leadership for the continuous improvement and optimization of the manufacturing processes and innovative design concepts to provide best value for the investment. Identifies, defines and measures improvement opportunities for assigned projects
- Prepares and maintains Process Sheets documentation
- Ensures compliance of plant ergonomic standards for new tooling and processes
- Reviews new parts and make recommendations to standardize features, promote cost-effective zero-defect manufacturing, and improve functionality that support DFMA.
- Work closely with SPRINT super user to configure system for new processes, new parts, review material structure and create and/or update use points
- Makes critical contributions to managing and solving complex and/or large technical challenges using best practices and new perspectives
- May coordinate work of other engineers, technicians, and support staff, and monitors their progress to assure compliance
- Provides consultation on plant design, process equipment, tools, techniques, and regulations/codes
- Provides technical support on components, methods, systems and equipment
- Prepares and maintains detailed layouts of buildings and equipment
- Prepares and maintains work instructions and train operators on documentation
- Ensure EH&S compliance and support culture to continuously improve Safety performance
- Implement and maintain Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metrics for production lines
- Measure, calculate and evaluate cycle time, takt time and throughput of current and new processes/lines
- Responsible for communicating and coordinating introduction of PCRs and DCNs
- Support logistics to coordinate delivery of right part number and level material at the use point
- Establishes and maintains accurate production standards using determined time tools
- Interfaces with plant personnel to accomplish timing, manpower and production goals
- Follow up prototype builds from start to delivery to customer
- Coordinates the introduction of new product and part changes in area of responsibility, balancing work timing, processes and manpower requirements
- Collaborates with the materials organization on defining and refining material organization and placement using Lean Principles
- Must be able to apply much of the above independently, without guidance on a daily basis
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering
- Five (5) years of manufacturing experience with educational requirements
- Eight (8) years of manufacturing experience without educational requirements
- Excellent computer skills; proficient in Excel, Power Point and Word
- Extensive knowledge of engineering concepts, manufacturing, the product, production standards and efficiency optimization tools
- Proven ability to react to issues impacting production with a sense of urgency, promptly assessing the issue and developing a feasible action plan and following it through to successful completion
- Experience with CAD softwares, both 2D and 3D
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Proven ability to review and apply technical specifications and requirements to the operation
- Possesses strong analytical skills and demonstrated focus on process and Lean Manufacturing concepts
- Ability to educate associates in the classroom and on the shop floor-educator
Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
At Volvo Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and to society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.