Supply Chain Manufacturing Engineer - Battery Pack Components

Your role and your team:

We are looking for an ambitious and experienced Manufacturing Engineer, working closely with our suppliers as well as various internal stakeholders. Your goal is to ensure that the battery pack components that we have designed can be manufactured efficiently and in quality by our suppliers. You will be part of a crossfunctional supplier team, reporting to the Head of Supply Chain Energy.

Your Day to Day:

• You will work with our battery pack component suppliers to steer and control the current production of components for the battery packYou will derisk the production of newly developed components by identifying manufacturing risks and gaps with required manufacturing processes,  finding solutions to decrease the criticality of these risks
• You will understand supplier capabilities, identify bottlenecks and work with the supply chain manager to understand, report and optimize supplier production capacity
• You will ensure tooling and equipment readiness in place at supplier to enable the production on time.
• You will find solutions to control, stabilize and improve existing production processes, with the goal of improving quality and reducing cycle times.
• You will work with the supplier to decide on technical solutions to gradually automatize the production and help ramp up high volume automated production lines.
• You will understand the inhouse assembly process of the battery pack and translate those needs into manufacturing requirements with the suppliers
• You will understand the design concept, work with our design engineers to be the voice of manufacturing and drive design for manufacturing / design for automation during prototype, development and first article inspection.

Your Profile:

Required:

• You speak fluent English
• You have 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing engineering role
• You have experience in metallic manufacturing processes (forming, joining, separating, coating, …)  
• You understand technical drawings and tolerance chains
• You have a can-do mindset, an ability to understand and analyse a problem and come up with solutions
• You have a willingness to take risks in decision making
• You have a good communications maturity, with an ability to build trust and consensus and secure commitment from team members

• You have willingness to regularly travel across Europe as well as on occasions worldwide for supplier visits

Desired:

• You speak fluent German
• You have a Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar
• You have experience in plastics manufacturing processes (forming, joining, separating, …)  
• You understand and can apply the concepts of lean production
• You have an understanding and first-hand experience with production automation
• You can differentiate and evaluate different automation solutions by using your understanding of achievable process stability, process speeds and tolerances
• You have experience in using the PPAP/APQP processes
• You have experience in Manufacturing Readiness Level or Technology Readiness Level development
• You have knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and inspection capabilities and requirements relevant to Electronics.
• You will have experience  in influencing design through Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), Design for Cost (DFC)and RCCA activities.

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