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Specialist Engineer - MT Control

Job ID
60764

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Safety 

  • Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards
  • Review department safety metrics and coordinate improvement activities 

Quality 

  • Direct data-driven maintenance processes to improve quality metrics (e.g., higher FTT, less scrap, less contamination, etc.) 

Delivery (Productivity) 

  • Coordinate the resources and activities required to ensure problem free start-ups 
  • Facilitate start-up/shift-to-shift meetings 
  • Facilitate constraint analysis and coordinate activities to eliminate bottlenecks 

Cost 

  • Promote and ensure continuous improvement in the manufacturing engineering organization toward the common goal of improving product quality, plant competitiveness and total cost structure
  • Monitor, control, and improve Maintenance Cost Per Unit (MCPU)
  • Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives: meet or beat schedule 
  • Manage and support material control (spare part inventory), repair and rebuild programs, and reliability and maintainability reviews

People 

  • Communication and Recognition 
  • Participate in Time & Data Management meetings for scheduling, staffing, procurement, equipment maintenance, inventory control, constraint analysis, and the coordination of production activities with codependent departments 
  • Create a conducive work environment for the team(s) to complete their assigned responsibilities / tasks; build and nurture a One Team environment 
  • Basic Administration of supervisory responsibilities and documents

Maintenance 

  • Lead all daily, weekend and shutdown maintenance planning with input from your team(s) 
  • Integrate the maintenance plan into total department business plan 
  • Maximize equipment effectiveness through a detailed, standardized, and prioritized preventive and predictive maintenance plan designed to improve productivity 
  • Plan and prepare material / spare part to support and priorities for all maintenance actions; Use Maximo (MFM) to document all maintenance activities (planned and crisis) and create reports to support continuous improvement 
  • Use Maximo to analyze data and evaluate the effectiveness of the preventive maintenance plan 
  • Jointly coordinate maintenance and engineering activities 
  • Involve investigating root cause analysis of downtime issues to prevent recurrence with Process Coach and Lead Process Coach (4D) 
  • Work with ME/PE/VME to launch new programs or equipment, optimize floor layouts, coordinate equipment refurbishment and develop standardized PM programs from FMEAs 
  • Provide input to MPS for weekend and shutdown maintenance planning. 

Environment 

  • Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Safety 

  • Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards
  • Review department safety metrics and coordinate improvement activities 

Quality 

  • Direct data-driven maintenance processes to improve quality metrics (e.g., higher FTT, less scrap, less contamination, etc.) 

Delivery (Productivity) 

  • Coordinate the resources and activities required to ensure problem free start-ups 
  • Facilitate start-up/shift-to-shift meetings 
  • Facilitate constraint analysis and coordinate activities to eliminate bottlenecks 

Cost 

  • Promote and ensure continuous improvement in the manufacturing engineering organization toward the common goal of improving product quality, plant competitiveness and total cost structure
  • Monitor, control, and improve Maintenance Cost Per Unit (MCPU)
  • Optimize throughput in accordance with budgets and cost objectives: meet or beat schedule 
  • Manage and support material control (spare part inventory), repair and rebuild programs, and reliability and maintainability reviews

People 

  • Communication and Recognition 
  • Participate in Time & Data Management meetings for scheduling, staffing, procurement, equipment maintenance, inventory control, constraint analysis, and the coordination of production activities with codependent departments 
  • Create a conducive work environment for the team(s) to complete their assigned responsibilities / tasks; build and nurture a One Team environment 
  • Basic Administration of supervisory responsibilities and documents

Maintenance 

  • Lead all daily, weekend and shutdown maintenance planning with input from your team(s) 
  • Integrate the maintenance plan into total department business plan 
  • Maximize equipment effectiveness through a detailed, standardized, and prioritized preventive and predictive maintenance plan designed to improve productivity 
  • Plan and prepare material / spare part to support and priorities for all maintenance actions; Use Maximo (MFM) to document all maintenance activities (planned and crisis) and create reports to support continuous improvement 
  • Use Maximo to analyze data and evaluate the effectiveness of the preventive maintenance plan 
  • Jointly coordinate maintenance and engineering activities 
  • Involve investigating root cause analysis of downtime issues to prevent recurrence with Process Coach and Lead Process Coach (4D) 
  • Work with ME/PE/VME to launch new programs or equipment, optimize floor layouts, coordinate equipment refurbishment and develop standardized PM programs from FMEAs 
  • Provide input to MPS for weekend and shutdown maintenance planning. 

Environment 

  • Ensure department compliance with government, industry, and corporate standards.

Qualifications Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics or Robotics engineer or related field.
  • 5 Years working experience with various robotic platform, programing languages and hardware components.
  • Experience: 1-2 years technical work experience and troubleshooting in a Manufacturing environment 
  • Fundamental working knowledge of PLC logic and controls 
  • Familiarity with AI, machine learning, computer vision, sensor technology and control systems are essential.
  • Ability to work any shift as well as rotating shifts and weekends
  • Ability to work independently with limited supervision
  • Capable of assigning work to unionized hourly workforce and holding employees accountable for following processes pertaining to daily work assignments in terms safety, quality, and throughput
  • Strong organizational and administrative skills
  • Ability to multi-task
  • Strong problem-solving and conflict management skills
  • Strong English communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to business and operations teams.
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