American Trailer World (ATW) is looking to solve process and design challenges in its product development and manufacturing operations, and drive innovation to provide solutions to its customers.
Requirements
- History of deployment of manufacturing tools, with Lean or Six Sigma certification preferred
- Highly Proficient in MS Office Suite including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook at a minimum.
- Experience with product development software such as BlueStar, SolidWorks, Dynamics365, etc.
- Experience in testing methodologies
- Well versed in building and testing product prototypes; evaluating production options, product integrity, costs and user experience testing
- 10+ years of direct experience in applied engineering in a manufacturing environment
- 5+ years’ experience in product development and design (trailers or related industry a plus)
Responsibilities
- Analyze existing systems and processes and identify value-added and non-value-added activities to solve process and design challenges.
- Conceive, design, develop, and test innovative solutions based on analysis and organizational objectives.
- Participate in strategic planning meetings with product management, operations, and design team.
- Contribute to Product designs, resource management and implementations
- Evaluate new and existing processes, equipment, and materials as an input for scheduling methods, performance metrics, and financial standards.
- Monitor and understand industry trends, utilizes customer interviews and other market feedback to drive improvement
- Create, manage, and measure KPI’s such as product development timing, estimation accuracy and defect percentages, etc.
Other
- Attract, retain, and develop high-caliber talent.
- Lead, mentor and support a highly effective team of passionate professionals fostering a high-performance culture.
- Manage and conduct employee training for productivity improvement projects
- Develops and manages departmental and project budgets
- Some overnight travel required- at times up 50% to various production and customer locations
