Engineering Production Planner - Paint Shop

Engineering Production Planner 5 - Paint Shop role at Mercedes‑Benz Vans, LLC (Charleston, SC)

Leads the planning of productive or non‑productive processes and concepts for the industrialization and manufacturing of automobiles according to specified standards in quality, productivity, ergonomics, safety, and economy for several line segments within defined shops such as Body, Paint or Assembly Shop. Drives own initiatives to optimize processes, ensures compliance with standards, and achieves continuous improvement in all aspects of production.

Leads the work group for a project by defining priorities, implementing efficient task management strategies, and conducting periodic follow‑up meetings to optimize the project’s results and achieve project goals.

• Perform new planning; plan sequences of operations/working cycles for complete systems.
• Perform advance, primary and detailed planning for and coordinate sequences of operations, working cycles, production equipment and lead times on the basis of new or modified procedures and in accordance with ergonomic and operational findings for complete systems, e.g. complete surface technology, complete BiW, complete new component runs (parts production and assembly).
• Change and acquire new production equipment or NISP programming on the basis of rationalization measures. Prepare target/actual comparisons of required capacities, present alternatives and compile, reconcile and monitor asset investment/capital expenditure costs, overheads and production times.
• Check technical documentation and constructional criteria for optimal realizability; amend and adjust as required.
• Coordinate suppliers and specialist departments and diverse subsystem planning in the context of packages of measures for the relevant area of responsibility as applicable.
• Plan complex production equipment: plan the nature and quantity of production equipment with a large number of functions/processing phases, arrange production and procurement, reconcile constructional design, draw up capacity and utilisation plans.
• Prepare requirements and obtain and evaluate offers for limited complete systems; develop and reconcile requirements (e.g. technical and other specifications) for limited complete systems and services; evaluate contractors based on technical considerations and propose for selection; obtain offers and evaluate in terms of technical implementation, value for money, follow‑up costs and supply availability; clarify details with regard to technology, construction and delivery dates;
  
  provide support to Procurement on technical issues relating to negotiations.
• Support and monitor the setup, approval and acceptance of limited complete systems; coordinate and monitor the setup, approval, acceptance and initial utilisation of limited complete systems; control the correct implementation in terms of technical requirements and scheduling; demonstrate process capability; create acceptance reports, jointly define and schedule remedial measures for faults and track their implementation; perform follow‑up approval and acceptance as required;
  
  arrange additional changes and improvements and adjust documentation accordingly.
• Optimize and document technical processes for complete systems (e.g. complete surface technology, complete BiW, complete new component runs (parts production and assembly)); determine production workflows; describe working cycles, sequences of operations, layouts, material flows, production equipment and tool systems and determine optimal batch sizes for complete systems; calculate and determine standard times; document production workflows, including machine setting data; implement provisions on test procedures;
  
  submit testing and measurement orders; develop, introduce and monitor rationalisation measures; evaluate results; reconcile, determine and represent all planning parameters with specialist departments.
• Participate in the development of planning standards/tools, e.g. standard technical specifications, procedural instructions for planning processes, checklists (e.g. acceptance checklists), process descriptions (e.g. documentation in PP Book),…