Process Engineer
Multimatic
Date: 1 day ago
City: Newmarket, Ontario
Contract type: Full time
Key Responsibilities And Authorities
If you are interested in this position, apply by sending us your cover letter and resume.
We thank all interested candidates in advance; however, only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.
As part of our commitment to ensuring our employment practices are fair, accessible, and inclusive of persons with disabilities, recruitment-related accommodations for disabilities, are available upon request throughout the recruitment and assessment process for applicants with disabilities.
- Retrieve and monitor assigned work center performance, maintain, update and present monthly open issues, participate in continuous improvement opportunities on new/existing equipment, using data to support findings.
- Order of new equipment to the Mechanisms Group Machine, Tooling and Programming specifications, coordinate the development, delivery and integration while working with internal stakeholders to ensure equipment complies with all financial and manufacturing/layout requirements.
- Travel locally and internationally (as required) to participate in onsite meetings and acceptance trials.
- Attend quote meetings and/or develop internal detailed costed equipment quotes, review/revise with management and distribute approved copies, speak to and support costing provided, quotes may be based on existing data or budgetary costs provided.
- Issue RFQ’s to vendors conveying requirements, assembly process steps, adequate specifications and requirements, etc. to ensure a robust detailed quote response, while addressing/pursuing responses to vendor questions. Develop with the Packaging Engineer internal and external packaging required.
- Thoroughly review vendor’s quotes and ensure they meet the RFQ requirements, request clarification as required and challenge/justify cost.
- Hold and champion open issues meetings internal and external, schedule, document meeting minutes, assign and follow-up on tasks in various departments.
- Support customer visits during run at rate and assembly plants (as required) in a highly professional manner always understanding your audience and being an ambassador of the department, division and corporation.
- Develop capital approval packages and follow-up on approval, issue/pursue approval of purchase orders, seek approval of invoices and work within an established program or divisional budget.
- Support the development of in-line plastics processing technologies such as vibratory welding and injection/co-molding, assist in the creation of lineside documentation to establish a turnkey stabile process would be an asset and if applicable to a project.
- Work in a safe professional manner at all times, adhering to Multimatic’s Employee Handbook, Provincial and Federal requirements.
- Ensure that a PHSR, ergonomic and environmental assessment (if applicable) is completed and is documented on new equipment.
- Investigate potential vendors for new processes, parts handling technologies and equipment, pursue nondisclosure agreements and work with the Mechanisms Group to ensure vendors are reviewed and are viable.
- Work with equipment vendors to coordinate training sessions of involved departments and personnel.
- Participate in/lead various program related meetings, GEAR Program, Continuous Improvement initiatives, KAIZEN and Gemba’s, perform LPA’s, be involved with TPM’s and support J.H.S.C. activities.
- Work closely with various departments (Maintenance, Toolroom, Production, Materials, Warehouse, Quality Assurance) to line issues are addressed to ensure shipments are met, and AQP and Test Lab for new business opportunities, part/process qualification of current changes and future opportunities.
- Work with the Mechanisms Group on divisional goals and directives.
- Complete tasks as assigned by ECN’s, DMN’s, Launch Open Issues, Quality Open Issues, Flawless Launch, etc. providing evidence and acknowledge their closure.
- Responsible for developing process related documentation, such as setup and changeover instructions, operator instructions, process flow diagrams, safety and lockout, dummy parts, process parameters and assisting in developing PFMEA’s.
- Responsible for developing/maintaining/investigating process capability with supporting departments, time studies on manual processes and equipment and investigate bottlenecks.
- Ability to review and revise prepared materials for correctness to minimize errors and ensure clarity.
- Adherence to Departmental, Divisional and Group Job Instructions and forms, IATF and ISO14001, WHMIS and Customer Specific standards and their development.
- Support and back-up fellow team members as required, become knowledgeable in the packaging cost development process.
- Attend training as required by the division or customer locally or internationally.
- Participate in GP-12/Containment activities assessing parts manufactured for defects in order to address those issues upstream in the assembly process until a clean point is achieved.
- Support Design for Manufacturing meetings, Milestone Reviews, prototype builds and open issues meetings with MTC to help steer product design.
- Hands on approach when dealing with front line supervisors, lead hands and operators.
- Knowledge of Core Tools in used in the Automotive Industry would be an asset.
- Save, file and archive of departmental documentation.
- Adopt and practice Kaizen Principles and Concepts.
- Participate in Kaizen and GEAR activities.
- Perform other duties as required (i.e. special projects).
If you are interested in this position, apply by sending us your cover letter and resume.
We thank all interested candidates in advance; however, only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.
As part of our commitment to ensuring our employment practices are fair, accessible, and inclusive of persons with disabilities, recruitment-related accommodations for disabilities, are available upon request throughout the recruitment and assessment process for applicants with disabilities.
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