Production Preparation Engineer (Automotive)

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, offering strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. Its client is a recognized prominent global enterprise in the automotive sector, listed among the top 50 companies in the Global Fortune rankings. The client manufactures vehicles in 27 countries and markets them across over 170 countries and regions worldwide.

About the role

• Company: TekWissen®
• Location: Liberty, NC 27298
• Duration: 12 Months
• Job type: Temporary Assignment
• Work type: Onsite
• Pay rate: $70.00 - $70.00/Hr

Responsibilities

• Work in a collaborative team environment supporting other Engineers, the Construction Management Group, Technicians, Vendors, General Contractors, etc., to achieve project milestones.
• Handle equipment procurement, installation planning through execution, commissioning, pre-production trials, and launch of battery production lines.
• Participate in advanced cleanliness protocols (clean room) necessary for the assigned area of battery manufacturing.
• Support battery manufacturing trials to confirm equipment safety, quality, operation availability, and overall efficiency.
• Identify punchlist items, perform root cause analysis, and manage countermeasures.
• Summarize KPIs, support mass-production handover, and support production issues.
• Engage with cross-functional teams (domestic and international) to discuss open items and key project schedules/milestones.
• Create and maintain detailed schedules for assigned areas.
• Maintain budgets for assigned areas.
• Complete internal and external training.

Requirements

• Experience in production preparation and execution of capital projects, preferably from initial strategy planning to the start of mass production.
• Project management experience dealing with capital investments greater than $0.5M.
• Experience creating and maintaining detailed schedules, including milestone achievement, for manufacturing equipment installation.
• Experience with high volume manufacturing support and troubleshooting ability.
• Ability to read and interpret 2D drawings, including building facilities and process equipment drawings.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Ability to travel for business, both domestic and international, up to 25%.
• Ability to work weekends, holidays, and shutdown periods (such as July and December shutdown) as needed, based on project condition and schedule.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or a similar technical field, or 5+ years equivalent.
• Added bonus: Hands-on experience with PowerBI for data analysis and data visualization.
• Added bonus: Automotive or OEM manufacturing experience.
• Added bonus: Battery manufacturing experience.