Resident Engineer

Attendance to all construction or assembly events at client’s facilities.
- Present and explain of new pedigree parts with actions performed to improved parts, even for mockups.
- Validation of correct assembly of Forvia’s parts, guaranteeing the successful of the event.
- Detailed report for each event, on quality, function or assembly issues found.
- Meeting minutes report for each event.
- As resident engineer is not allowed to make agreements or commitments with client before talking and agreeing them with PDL.
- Participation of internal meetings to coordinate upcoming events, to clarify goals and next steps to be presented to client. (Resident Engineer must be the voice of Forvia inside client’s plant)
- Nothing can be shared with client that was not previous agreed with PDL and core team.
- Must guarantee to have by written meeting minutes to be align.
- Direct participation at problems solving like 8D, 5 why’s and other ones with core team.
- Must be the client perspective on solving the issues.
- Data collection at client’s plant to have a clear perspective of problems and root causes.
- GD&T / CAD Data understanding of the product, to guarantee good performance of the product.
- Resident must guarantee to understand geometry characteristics.
- RPS understanding.
- GD&T.
- Gap and flush.
- Participation at Top 5 meetings lead by PDL.
- Daily report to PDL & core team.
- Scrap issues at client plant.
- Pareto reports for the problems.
- Claims from costumer at construction of pre-series or series construction.
- Report of reworked parts.
- Rework of product at client facilities if needed
- Must guarantee in front of new problems to rework products, prior alignment with PDL and core team.
- Analyze and communicate of tools and materials needed for rework.
- Create work instructions for reworks needed.
- Guarantee the reception, movement and presentation of new pedigree parts or mockups.
- Coordination with client of possible presentation of new parts, according of availability from core team at production Forvia’s factories.
- This list could not content all task needed, if something special need comes from PDL or core team, will must cover meanwhile the task is performed within client facility.