Job Description

Job Title: Production Preparation Engineer ( Automotive)

Location: Liberty, NC 27298

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Pay Rate: $70.00 - $70.00/Hr

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a recognized prominent global enterprise in the automotive sector, listed among the top 50 companies in the Global Fortune rankings. As a leading player in the global automotive industry, our client manufactures vehicles in 27 countries and effectively markets them across over 170 countries and regions worldwide.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Working in a collaborative team environment (supporting other Engineers, Construction Management Group, Technicians, Vendors, General Contractors, etc.) to achieve project milestones.
• Equipment procurement, installation planning to execution, commissioning, pre-production trials, and launch of battery production lines.
• Participate in advanced cleanliness protocols (clean room) necessary for assigned area of battery manufacturing.
• Supporting battery manufacturing trials to confirm equipment safety, quality, operation availability, and overall efficiency.
• Punchlist item identification, root cause analysis, and countermeasure management.
• KPI summarization, mass-production handover, and production issues support.
• Cross-functional team engagement (domestic and international) to discuss open items and key project schedules/milestones.
• Creating and maintaining detailed schedules for assigned areas.
• Maintain budgets for assigned areas.
• Completing internal and external training.

Qualifications:

• Experience in production preparation and execution of capital projects, preferably from initial strategy planning to the start of mass production.
• Project management experience dealing with capital investments greater than $0.5M.
• Experience in creating and maintaining detailed schedules including milestone achievement for manufacturing equipment installation.
• Experience with high volume manufacturing support and troubleshooting ability.
• Ability to read and interpret 2D drawings including building facilities and process equipment drawings.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Ability for business travel, both domestic and international, is up to 25%.
• Ability to work weekends, holidays, and shutdown periods (such as July and December shutdown) as needed, based on project condition and schedule.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or similar technical field or 5+ years equivalent.

Added Bonus:

• Hands of experience with PowerBI for data analysis and data visualization.
• Automotive or OEM manufacturing experience.
• Battery manufacturing experience.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

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