Process Engineer - Gear Lab Development (Sterling Heights)

Responsibilities:

• Support Manufacturing Process Engineering activity and development
• Drive continuous improvement in safety, quality and productivity
• Apply engineering principles and analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products
• Develop action plans as required to investigate and prioritize quality concerns and verify corrective actions on internal processes and supplier processes
• Lead and conduct process audits to ensure process discipline is consistent with drivetrain guidelines
• Conduct job ergonomic evaluations and deliver corrective actions as required
• Analyze vehicle inventory root causes; engage in mapping and corrective actions to reduce vehicle inventory
• Create process and instruction sheets supporting quality methods and processes
• Deliver capable processes and tools for gears machining processes
• Hypoid Blade development and tool life improvements
• Milling and Hobbing machining development
• Heat treat distortion and fire checks validation
• Shot peening (Compressive Residual Stress)
• Anneal and tempering process
• Hypoid Lapping and Grinding development
• CMM inspection setups and validation

Requirements:

• 5+ yrs of related experience
• Manufacturing Processes
• Successful candidate must be able to demonstrate leadership in Client (leadership) behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills

Preferred:

• Data Analysis, Data Collection
• Bevel Gear Grinding and Lapping, Hob and Milling.
• Bevel process understanding (blanking, grinding, lapping, honing, shot peening)
• Bevel gear software (Gleason and Klingenberg systems)
• P40 & Gleason Nano CMM
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma experience
• 8D and 5Why corrective action and problem-solving skills
• DMAIC and DMADV (DFSS) Project Methodology experience
• FMEA, PPAP, and DOEs experience

Experience Required:

• Experience in Hypoid gear development or Data analytics.

Experience Preferred:

• Well verse in Excel and other data analytics software

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Additional Information:

• Data collection and presentation during the Hypoid Bevel development.
• Fully onsite.