Engineering Group Lead at Stellantis in Kokomo, Indiana

Job Description:

The Engineering Group Lead is a professional responsible for overseeing and optimizing the high-pressure die casting process in a manufacturing setting. This involves managing resources, ensuring quality, up-time, and improving efficiency in the production of die-cast components while utilizing advanced Stellantis Production Way (SPW) tools.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

· Leading Engineers in attainment of continuous improvement goals of operations and implementation of new model launches and non-new model capacity improvements.

· Must have excellent project management skills, capable of creating project schedules, maintaining project budgets/forecasts, and tracking/closing open issues.

· Capable of supporting / creating budgetary cost estimates for new and retool studies.

· Participate in simultaneous engineering activities and suppliers on new model programs.

· Obtain outside resources and information when technical challenges exceed capability of the cross functional team.

· Actively participate and intervene in project development in the area(s) of responsibility to reduce/eliminate waste.

· Drive HPDC (High Pressure Die Cast) lines and processes to fully PPAP'd requirements at 70% OPE

· Drive kaizen/projects with Engineering Team in areas of waste defined through prioritization.

· Ability to present during plant / project reviews to all levels of leadership of the organization.

· Train, coach, and support the deployment of sophisticated SPW tools on more complex problems (e.g. major and advanced projects utilizing statistical methods to reduce variation).

· Offer hands on trouble-shooting support to the assigned Technical Engineers and Maintenance Support Team in securing/improving OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) of process equipment including the improvement of MTBF (mean time between faults) and reduction in MTTR (mean time between repairs).

· Oversee/ensure the updating of all process equipment related documentation including, but not limited to:

· Tool and operation sheets, machine drawings, tool drawings,

· PFMEA's (process failure model effects analysis), control plans,

· OPL's (one point lessons),

· EWO's (emergency work order), software back-up programs, etc.

· Lead efforts for spare parts definition and cataloging in the business unit assigned.