Location: Orangeburg, SC, United States
Company: GKN Aerospace
Job Position: Manufacturing Engineer - Materials & Process
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Qualification:
Education & Experience
Associates Degree in Engineering, or in lieu of degree 4+ years combination of education and experience.
- 5 years of manufacturing engineering experience
Job Responsibility:
Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring compliance with the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
- Technical expertise at a local project level in governance and deployment of manufacturing development and integration for production within GKN Aerospace.
- Provides technical expertise to rapidly solve issues pertaining to vendor schedule and/or quality.
- Breaks down technical problems, risk, opportunities, in the correct order to create products and add value to GKN Aerospace through creating Zero Defects
- Leads positive, team relationships with internal and external customers, as well as co-workers
- Continuously improve production processes by implementing Lean initiatives.
- Provide local project technical oversight for the development of manufacturing process solutions to complex problems through:
- Local project technical lead for the implementation of production planning, from original concept through to production. Design these processes to a high level of process capability through utilizing the GKN standard Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) tool suite.
- Implement the global process for product development, first article development, configuration changes, build process definition and implementation.