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Mechanical Project Engineer:Â Powertrain - Machining & Assembly
Summary:
- The Project Engineer is accountable for the design of engineering projects with top-down oversight from inception (proposal) to completion (customer buy-off).
- Must ensure that all projects are prepared and completed safely adhering to the required standards of budget, timeline and scope.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work in a manner that protects the health, safety and welfare of yourself and others and adhere to all company policies and procedures.
- Liaise with the customer, internal function and subcontractors to endure the smooth running if the project
- Evaluate and review customer requirements & specifications and communicate them to all parties in the organization.
- Review government and industry specifications
- Review as sold PBS
- Review original baseline planning
- Lead handover meetings with ESC
- Review Lesson Learned from previous projects
- Coordinate System Engineers involved in the project, ensuring homogeneous solutions among all commodities.
- Review the engineering make/buy strategy
- Maintain project schedule by monitoring project progress.
- Manage the project within budget
- Continuously monitor project scope of work and budget for matching
- Scout supplier to create RFQ contents
- Identify and document added/reduced scope of work with potential impact on resource workload, timing and costs.
- Be appointed as Customer Technical Interface
- Review and update project open issues list
- Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems
- Define, review and update project risk and opportunities
- Monitor project cost to complete (CTC)
- Review and update project performance KPI reports - actual cost/costs to complete - progress
- Attends to all internal project reviews
- Attends to all customer project reviews
- Attends to all supplier project reviews
- Document engineering management Lessons Learned
- Be appointed as Dispatcher and gate keeper in the NC's management
- Provide feedback to supplier
- React promptly and effectively to changing client and product needs
- Estimate budget for changes
- Review engineering change for timing evaluation
- Define the technical solution to meet the change requirements and consider the best strategy for implementing the change.
- Develop execution plan for the change activities and establish the timing (duration) to execute the change
- Monitor and update the status of the engineering change activities for each phase, e.g., progress, forecasted completion date, open issues (if required), etc.
- Compile risk assessments and method statements for site installations
Skills:
- Change Management
- Clamping strategy
- Controls understanding of industrial equipment and machinery
- Cost estimation
- Design for manufacturing
- Design to installation / commissioning
- Discrete Event Simulation and availability / efficiency calculation
- Ergonomics evaluations
- Health assessment for reuse / retooling lines
- Layout design
- Logistics standards / processes
- Mechanical understanding of industrial equipment and machinery
- NC management
- Open Issue Management
- Process engineering and cycle time
- Production management (scheduling, data management, traceability concept)
- Safety and risk assessment analysis
- Safety standards and norms
- Scope control and budget matching
- Standard product and integrated machines specifications release
- Supplier assessment
- Technical customer management
- Transportation / conveyor systems design
- Value analysis, design to cost
- Workload capacity tools
- Project risk management
- Project management fundamentals
- Project planning and monitoring
Education:
- Master or Bachelor’s Degree in automation, engineering or business is preferred
Previous Experience:
- At least 5 years of experience in the automation/automotive industry, preferred in the powetrain area; machining and/or assembly.
Travel will be required
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