Duties and Responsibilities

• Understands and participates in the execution of the Quality Operating System (QOS), with respect to the Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) as determined for each project.
• Develops station level concepts and philosophies.
• Create Bill of Materials (BOM)
• Develops Time Cycle Diagrams (TCD) 
• Assists in the development of the manufacturing process, insuring the mechanical system and its control system are integrated efficiently.
• Reviews designs for compliance with customer specifications (corporate and plant), and departmental objectives.
• Enforces the usage of existing company standards (proven, out of the drawer sub-assemblies) 
• Organizes and actively participates in the project design review meetings;.
• Evaluates and approves design changes and drawing releases.
• Participates, where applicable with manufacturing floor support. Assists in constructing a detailed engineering schedule from the macro schedule supplied by the Program Manager. 
• Participates in the decision to engineer the job with internal or external engineering resources.
• Actively monitors Budget and Schedule and takes action promptly to deliver the system on time and under budget.
• Write and submit to Project Management "deviations" to the customer specifications as required.
• Monitors labor expenditures and writes Engineering Changes (EC¿s) to account for unanticipated costs overruns or customer driven changes.
• Maintains the "Project Book" for documentation of Customer requests, meeting minutes, general correspondences, faxes sent and received, deviations, EC¿s, and all other pertinent information.
• Directly supervises the support personnel assigned throughout all phases of the project. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies laws.  Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising their performance; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Recommends project personnel to specific phases or project tasks such as conceptual development, obtaining customer approval, material purchases, and were applicable layout, detailing and check.
• Monitors, coordinates and evaluates the efforts, progress and quality of external engineering resources.
• Participates in monitoring and evaluating the external supplier for compliance to applicable quality standards and program schedules and is actively part of the cross-functional buyoff team.
• Travel will be required.  Extended stays are ordinarily not required but are possible.  Possession of a valid U.S. passport maybe required. 

Knowledge & Skills 

• Ability to develop a complete working set of mechanical drawings
• Ability to size all necessary mechanical components.
• Ability to prepare major design concepts of complex mechanisms.
• Working knowledge of Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and CAD.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret customer specifications, electrical controls schematics, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.  
• Ability to negotiate effectively with suppliers and customers.
• Working knowledge of DOS, Windows, Windows applications (Excel, Word, Access, Project etc.), CAD