Mechanical Engineer

This Mechanical Engineer role focuses on improving production machinery performance, reliability, and uptime within a tier-one automotive manufacturing environment. The position analyzes equipment issues, leads redesign and retrofit projects, and drives process improvements to enhance quality, productivity, and cost efficiency. The role also provides technical support to maintenance and operations teams, ensuring robust preventive and predictive maintenance programs and effective spare parts management.

This Mechanical Engineer role focuses on improving production machinery performance, reliability, and uptime within a tier-one automotive manufacturing environment. The position analyzes equipment issues, leads redesign and retrofit projects, and drives process improvements to enhance quality, productivity, and cost efficiency. The role also provides technical support to maintenance and operations teams, ensuring robust preventive and predictive maintenance programs and effective spare parts management.

• Lead, coordinate, and set priorities for mechanical engineering activities within the assigned area to support production and maintenance needs.
• Analyze and define machinery and equipment problems to improve product quality, increase productivity, repair damaged equipment, reduce costs, and maximize production line uptime.
• Re-design, re-engineer, and retrofit machinery and equipment that require upgrading, are damaged, are poorly designed, or are incorrectly used in order to improve quality, productivity, and equipment reliability.
• Define and scope engineering projects, including preparing engineering drawings or layouts, writing engineering reports, and developing detailed cost estimates.
• Obtain bids, write work orders, make recommendations to management, and secure approvals for the purchase of necessary equipment and materials.
• Collaborate with Maintenance and Operations personnel to plan, coordinate, and support the retrofitting and installation of machinery and equipment.
• Study machinery requirements, maintenance manuals, and maintenance procedures to design and establish preventive maintenance programs that increase equipment uptime.
• Coordinate all predictive and preventive maintenance activities and ensure all assigned maintenance work is completed satisfactorily and on schedule.
• Communicate and coordinate with Maintenance personnel to provide technical expertise and support across maintenance projects and programs, with the goal of reducing maintenance costs, avoiding costly downtime, and increasing equipment utilization.
• Define, prepare, and control work order jobs, including preparing detailed work instructions and ordering and securing spare parts required for maintenance activities.
• Review completed maintenance work for proper completion to ensure efficient use of maintenance labor and materials.
• Administer and control the spare parts program to ensure timely, accurate, and efficient availability of essential spares needed for the orderly and efficient operation of the plant.
• Ensure that all critical spare parts are either inventoried on site or readily available through equipment vendors to avoid unnecessary downtime.
• Assist Operations personnel by providing mechanical engineering support to improve processes, resolve equipment issues, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

• BA/BS degree in Industrial Engineering is preferred.
• 1 to 2 years of related experience in mechanical or manufacturing engineering, preferably within an automotive or industrial environment.
• Advanced knowledge of production machinery, manufacturing processes, and relevant industry standards.
• Strong equipment troubleshooting skills with a high level of attention to detail.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications for reporting, documentation, and project tracking.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD for creating and modifying engineering drawings and layouts.
• Ability to effectively communicate with cross-functional teams and clearly convey technical information.
• Ability to lead projects and guide people assigned to those projects.
• Experience with automotive manufacturing or manufacturing engineering.
• Experience in equipment troubleshooting and process improvement within a production setting.

• Experience in automotive manufacturing environments, including exposure to stamping, welding, molding, and related processes.
• Familiarity with process…