Production Preparation Engineer (Automotive)

About the role

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• Job title: Production Preparation Engineer (Automotive)
• Location: Liberty, NC 27298
• Duration: 12 Months
• Job type: Temporary Assignment
• Work type: Onsite
• Pay rate: $70.00 - $70.00/Hr

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a recognized prominent global enterprise in the automotive sector, listed among the top 50 companies in the Global Fortune rankings. As a leading player in the global automotive industry, our client manufactures vehicles in 27 countries and effectively markets them across over 170 countries and regions worldwide.

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, conduct root cause analysis, and manage countermeasures.
• Summarize KPIs, support mass-production handover, and provide production issues support.
• 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 for business travel, both domestic and international, is 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 similar technical field or 5+ years equivalent.
• Hands of experience with PowerBI for data analysis and data visualization.
• Automotive or OEM manufacturing experience.
• Battery manufacturing experience.

Benefits