Manufacturing Assembly & Molding Engineer

About the position

The BorgWarner Arden campus offers two world class technical centers and a cutting-edge manufacturing facility that designs and produces turbos, fan, and fan drive components for the automotive industry. The Arden campus offers a multitude of career opportunities and is in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. This position will provide technical support for new product introduction and current manufacturing processes and practices in an automotive component production environment.

Responsibilities

• Support manufacturing operations with respect to process development, improvement, testing, safety, quality, and cost.
• Coordinate with Product Line Managers, vendors, customers, and Product Development engineering to ensure customer satisfaction and adherence to BorgWarner World Class manufacturing standards.
• Develop effective automated and manual systems for thermoplastic molding, material handling, and assembly operations.
• Enhance molding processes including end of arm tooling, mold qualification, and process improvement activities.
• Review and calculate labor, material, and other production costs along with reviewing schedules and future production requirements to assist management in decision making.
• Analyze and plan workflow, equipment placement and space requirements to improve manufacturing efficiency while adhering to health, safety, and environmental policies.
• Coordinate equipment maintenance and repair services while ensuring that manufacturer's procedures and instructions are followed to keep production equipment operational.
• Provide input to team for manufacturability, cost, testing, and process improvements.
• Perform data analysis to measure process performance, troubleshooting, and identification of improvement opportunities.
• Utilize project management tools such as flow charting, mapping, PFMEA, and timelines to achieve optimal solutions while collaborating with other Manufacturing Engineers assigned to the operations.
• Advance themselves technologically and apply such knowledge to best advise the organization, staying current on industry trends for equipment, tooling, gaging, testing and integration systems.
• Maintain confidentiality of all privileged information.
• Facilitate the change process at the technical level.
• Adhere to an appropriate and effective set of core values and beliefs and act in line with those values.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Requirements

• BS in mechanical or electromechanical engineering.
• At least 2 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience in molding or assembly.
• Experience in the automotive industry preferred.
• Experience with use of vision systems preferred.
• CAD platform experience (Solid Works, AutoCAD, Creo, Pro-E, Inventor).
• Experience with quality and lean processes & tools (PPAP, statistical analysis, 8D, 5S).
• Proficiency with Microsoft office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Attendance on site is essential for production support activities.
• Must be able to work in a team environment.
• Must be able to follow instructions, safety rules and regulations.
• A strong desire to learn, grow, and solve problems for the improvement of our production system.

Benefits

• Day 1 Medical Coverage with potential of no monthly premium.
• Onsite Health Clinic for employees and dependents (age 14 and over) at no cost.
• Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Coverage.
• Tuition Reimbursement Program after 18 months.
• Retirement Savings Plan (401k) with a matching program.
• Company paid holidays and vacation starting Day 1.