Paint Shop Maintenance Engineer

Job Description - Paint Shop Maintenance Engineer (MER
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EFD)

Paint Shop Maintenance Engineer Group :
Mercedes-Benz Group AG

Description

The world is changing. The question is, what will be our contribution to the outcome? We have set the pace in the field of mobility from the very beginning, and we will continue to do so. At Mercedes-Benz Vans, interdisciplinary teams are developing the mobility of tomorrow. Our goal is to make mobility safer, simpler, and more sustainable for people across the globe.

Put your pioneering spirit to good use:
This is your opportunity to make a contribution that extends far beyond your job title.

At Mercedes-Benz Vans, we offer you the perfect environment for your professional and personal growth. Cutting-edge training and promising career opportunities will help you to foster and expand your professional skill set as well as your individual strengths. Think, try, and thrive with us in collaborative work environments that spark game-changing concepts.

Monitors Department performance. Develops, implements, and improves the operation of equipment. Acts as interface between maintenance technicians and engineering to ensure the maintenance of equipment in production. Implement an established maintenance program and maintain detailed maintenance records.

• Develops best practices to improve equipment capacity, quality and reliability
• Repair, adjust, and maintain production equipment, machinery, or instruments in cooperation with internal and external staff to ensure that it functions reliably and complies with process specifications.
• Responsible for coordinating activities (PM’s, TPM, problem solving) of third party contractors, vendors, or suppliers related to the maintenance field.
• Investigates complex problems, analyzes root causes and derives resolutions. Will use 8D Problem Solving Process to ensure sustainable quality products.
• Develops operational strategies to achieve energy and financial objectives
• Participates in budget preparation and monitor expenses and profitability
• Ensures equipment uptime, MTTR, MTBF, and OEE by relying on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
• Develop and approve training guidelines for all documentation and spare part related processes, systems and tools. Provide training and support to business partners.
• Ensures that highly technical equipment meets required specifications and high quality standards
• Evaluates current production activities and drives improvements plans and coordinates problem solving with international third party contractors, vendors, or suppliers to increase reliability of production lines and equipment.
• Participates in new production line and equipment buy-off processes, ensuring that components and documentation are according to the Mercedes-Benz Integra standard and specifications.
• Develops planning standards, methods, and procedures to maintain robust PM, TPM processes as well as robust containments and countermeasures for equipment downtime
• Stays current with product specifications, engineering technology and production processes
• Proposes and manages medium-scale projects from beginning to end. May scope and manage large capital investment projects (>$5M)
• Collaborates and takes over responsibilities with other departments in preparing scope of work including project requirements, milestones, deliverables, end products, documents and reports that are expected to be provided by external providers.
• Create and maintain material release lists in collaboration with the standardization departments in a worldwide network of all Mercedes-Benz Plants. Verify and ensure that all projects contain all necessary components to cover all required technologies.
• Verify requests from Line builders for component special releases related to additional stations or equipment. Ensure that additional components meet Integra requirements or suggests alternative parts for various use cases (Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronics).
• May train and support less experienced engineers
• Participates in regularly scheduled team meetings
• Will perform other duties as assigned

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant degree required.

5 years plus of relevant experience required, strongly preferring automotive environment including experience with:

• PLC experience such as OMRON, Allen Bradley, Siemens
• 3D-CAD experience such as Solid Works, Catia, Siemens NX, etc.
• Hands-on experience pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical, and computer controlled systems
• Hands-on experience with process devices such as motor drives, sensors, AC/DC converters, lifts, conveyors, etc.

Experience with Paint applications (chemicals, sprays, filtration, pumps, degreaser, hydrocyclones, rectifier process, anodes, anolyte systems, ultra-filtration, DI-water, industrial paint oven curing)

Experience with joining technologies, clinching, gluing and fluid technology

• Hands-on…