Gear Lab Coordinator

At AAM, we believe that our people are our greatest asset and that a diverse and inclusive workplace benefits everyone. As a member of our global team, you'll have the opportunity to make a difference from day one and contribute to shaping the future of mobility for AAM and the world.

**Job Summary:**

Manages multiple or complex engineering projects involving multiple functions or sites. Oversees project progress and costs; communicates status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addresses and resolves problems.

**Key Responsibilities:**

• Coordinates personnel and resources to deliver projects for each deliverable within the project.
• Communicates with supplier and manages expectations.
• Ensures effective use of project controls and reporting mechanisms.
• Directs project staffing; motivates and develops project team.
• Provides leadership to the project team members.

**Requirements and Responsibilities:**

Achieves engineering operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, customer-service, safety, security, and health standards; identifying and resolving problems; completing audits; identifying, developing, and implementing system improvements.

- Develops manufacturing operations plan by calculating equipment needs, process, and labor capacity and requirements; determining tooling and maintenance objectives and requirements; developing layouts; establishing priorities.

- Improves cost effectiveness by studying operations; designing and conducting improvement studies.

- Provides equipment, tooling, and maintenance services by planning, organizing, and evaluating operations.

- Maintains engineering records by designing document filing systems; updating equipment, processes, tooling, and maintenance databases.

- Maintains safe, secure, and healthy environment by adhering to organization standards and policies, and to legal regulations; alerting others regarding potential concerns.

- Provides manufacturing engineering recommendations and reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing manufacturing engineering data and trends.

- Contributes to manufacturing engineering and organization success by welcoming related, different, and new requests; helping others accomplish job results.

- Manages engineering employee outcomes by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.

- All other duties as assigned.

**About American Axle & Manufacturing:**

AAM is a leading global Tier 1 Automotive and Mobility Supplier, designing, engineering and manufacturing Driveline and Metal Forming technologies to support electric, hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. Headquartered in Detroit with nearly 85 facilities in 18 countries, AAM is bringing the future faster for a safer and more sustainable future.