Manufacturing Engineer

Blue Bird Corporation - Fort Valley, GA

Full-time

Fort Valley, GA

Food Services and Drinking Places

About the position

Blue Bird (NASDAQ: BLBD) is recognized as a technology leader and innovator of school buses since its founding in 1927. Our dedicated team members design, engineer and manufacture school buses with a singular focus on safety, reliability, and durability. School buses carry the most precious cargo in the world - 25 million children twice a day - making them the most trusted mode of student transportation. The company is the proven leader in low- and zero-emission school buses with more than 20,000 propane, natural gas, and electric powered buses in operation today. Blue Bird is transforming the student transportation industry through cleaner energy solutions. For more information on Blue Bird's complete product and service portfolio, visit www.blue-bird.com. We are pleased to share that we have a career opportunity for a Manufacturing Engineer as a strategic part of the Blue Bird Production Engineering Team. With a focus on the Three Blue Bird Foundational Objectives: Take Care of Employees: Delight Customers & Dealers: Deliver Profitable Growth. This role will drive functional excellence and continuous improvement. Reporting to the SVP, Lean Transformation & Quality, this role is responsible for delivering the activities related to optimizing production manufacturing processes through developing, planning, and implementing improvements that positively impact Safety, Quality, Labor, and Delivery, utilizing engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to the fabrication department.
• Approve all new products through an initial sample inspection report (ISIR) investigation and ensure all metrics are met prior to implementation.
• Utilize product lifecycle management (PLM) system including reviewing product design changes and assess manufacturing impact.
• Recognize labor impact with process/design changes and implement plans with little impact to manufacturing departments.
• Develop business cases, create authorizations for expenditures for funding procurement.
• Lead continuous process improvement efforts using statistical process control (SPC), process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA), and control plans.
• Work with Production & Quality team to analyze, resolve and respond to manufacturing issues.
• Perform other job duties as required by supervisor and manager and maximize work flow during employee absences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited university.
• Minimum 2 years' experience in manufacturing, automotive preferred.
• Past experience in Production Supervision is a plus.
• Strong background in Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) strategies and Quality Assurance (QA) initiatives.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in bus and chassis assembly.
• Program management and launch experience.