Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Job Summary

Provide single point technical contact on engineering and technical topics and issues. Direct reports may include product engineers and designers.

Main Responsibilities

• Understand customer engineering organization, and build relationships with engineering and technology key “decision makers”.
• Understand customer product issues and opportunities for product improvements.
• Ensure OEM engineering groups understand technical and manufacturing capabilities.
• Support teams with program specific issues.
• Inform customer engineering leadership of significant launch or production related issues (“no surprises”).
• Provide single contact point to OEM engineering.
• Provides Leadership to his Group following the YFAI leadership expectation model
• Prepares strategic decisions
• Plan resources and budgets
• Communicates with peer engineering managers and shares best business practices
• Leads group of lead engineers and engineers / technicians to develop a multi part product (system) or multi step processes to a set of requirements defined by “customer”.
• Responsible for using all YFAI standards and systems (BOS, PLUS, Lean, CPP, CMP, EPIC, BEP)

Specific Requirements:

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Work Experience

Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Jenoptik laser weakening
• vibration welding
• flame treat
• robotic sewing
• press lamination
• ABB, Fanuc, and Kuka robots
• IMGL and IMGS vac forming
• auto edge folding
• sonic welding
• heat stake welding
• robotic spray paint

Common Requirements:

Business Operating System (BOS): Understand, apply and meet all function-related BOS requirements.

Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS): Understand, apply and meet all function-related EHS requirements.

Product Safety: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Product Safety requirements.

Compliance: Understand, apply and meet all function-related Compliance requirements

Information Security: Understand, apply and meet all function-related IT / Information Security and confidentiality of YFAI information requirements.

Our Investment in You

• Competitive Compensation Packages
• Generous Paid Vacation, Paid Sick Leave and Paid Holidays
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits from day one
• Competitive 401k Match
• Rewarding Healthy Behavior Program
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Supplemental Health Plans
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company Discount Program