Manufacturing Engineer

**LOCATION**:Acuna / Coahuila (MX-COA), Mexico |**BRAND**: Bendix |**REQUISITION ID**:2866 |** JOB GRADE**: 14**JOB DESCRIPTION**:**Position Summary**:This position provides daily manufacturing support to a multifunctional team whose main responsibility is keeping a group of assembly lines operating according to KPS system.**Essential Functions**:- Provides technical support for manufacturing cells in a manufacturing environment.- Ensures assembly lines are balanced and producing according to standards.- Ensures assembly lines follow Safety, Ergonomic and Environmental Standards.- Represents manufacturing on a power base integrated by several assembly lines and different team members.- Improves manufacturing processes according to company standards. (Layout changes, Cost Saving projects, etc.)- Provides manufacturing expertise and support to define, design, build, evaluate and deploy new assembly lines.- Maintains manufacturing documents according to Company Quality System and customer requirements.- Assists plant wide efforts to maintain IATF-16949 or current applicable certification.- Supports continuous improvement and KPS activities.- Supports WCM Pillar Activities.- Ensures mistake proofing devices are deployed according to Company Standards.- Supports and provides manufacturing expertise for PFMEA and engineering document initiatives.- Creates, loads and maintains SAP routings. Ensures information about work Centers, Cycle time, production version, etc. is accurate.- Stops assembly lines and creates alternatives along with a multifunctional team if; Products Quality or Safety is compromised.- Proposes and/or executes engineering changes on assembly lines.- Ensures manufacturing on assembly lines is defined and executed based on Product Safety Rules and procedures define by Central Quality.- Supports Activities related to Product Safety and VDA Audits.- Ensures customer requirements are met on assembly lines.- Support PSA Activities and procedures with team members- Perform all those activities that by the nature of the position are required.**Management & Supervisory Responsibilities**:- Reports to Plant Engineering Manager/ Engineering Plant Lead.- This position is responsible of representing manufacturing on a power base(s).- Job **is** **NOT directly** responsible for managing other employees.- Co-ops, Students or Apprentices may temporally report to this position.**Knowledge**:- CAD software usage.- Lean Manufacturing principles.- Strong Excell- Strong Power Point- Time and motion study.- Layout knowledge.- Failure mode and effect analysis (PFMEA)- Manufacturing processes (crimping, PCB flashing, Automatic Testing, welding, force & distance insertions, Automatic Torqueing )- Measurement systems analysis focused on Manufacturing.- Data Analysis and Problem solving.- Mistake proofing devices.- Experience launching new lines and products.**Experience**:Relevant experience in manufacturing environments.**Skills**:- Hands on; Capable of translating data or trends into solutions.- Teamwork- Adaptability- Strong communication- Problem solving, able to find root causes and solve issues at the manufacturing level.- Creativity, able to implement practical, affordable and safe solutions in a manufacturing environment.- Time management- Organized.- Multitasking- Leadership, able to properly represent manufacturing on a multifunctional team. Capable of creating and presenting problems or solutions by using Microsoft Tools to a multifunctional team integrated by engineers, leaders or managers.**Education/Certifications**:- BS degree in Engineering (ME, MET, EE, EET) required- Greenbelt Certified preferred- Bilingual English and Spanish a must**Bendix Competencies**:**Domain****Capability****Competency Characteristics****Managing Business**- Analytical Thinking- Creativity & Innovation- Entrepreneurship & Decision Making- Managing & Improving Processes- Strategy & Vision- Refers to collecting, analyzing and structuring information using a wide perspective in order to identify key issues and patterns as well as to drawing conclusions.- Includes creating an atmosphere of openness and curiosity for innovations, providing and implementing inventive ideas that add value.- Means to discover opportunities in challenges, seek profit and sustainable growth, make courageous while sound decisions and demonstrate a good business understanding.- Describes the ability to plan, prioritize, monitor and improve work processes and allocate resources.- The ability to develop strategies aligned to the organization's vision, putting them into action and taking a big picture view, considering future influences.- Describes the ability to develop strategies aligned to the organization's vision, putting them into action and taking a big picture view, considering future influences.**Managing People**- Customer Orientation- Influence & Inspire- Leadi