Blue Bird - Fort Valley, GA
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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.
Responsibilities
- Production line technical support
- Provide necessary tooling, routers, labor standards, raw material structure, make vs. buy analysis, process instructions, and technical support for the timely implementation of engineering changes
- Accountable for achieving goals and objectives for the Mfg Engineering group and Operations organization
- Utilize 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 Mfg departments
- Develop business cases, write AFEs for funding procurement
- Develop process changes/improvements using SPC, PFMEA, and control plans
- Utilize root cause analysis methodology to solving manufacturing issues
- Will be working within an ISO 9000 quality system and produce documentation acceptable to the customer
- Document and report work activity
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Accredited University required
- Minimum 2 years' experience in manufacturing, automotive preferred
- Past experience in Production Supervision a plus
- Must possess excellent planning and organization skills
- Competent user of MS Office products
Nice-to-haves
- Balanced, dynamic, methodical approach; good work ethic, integrity, and professional conduct
- Must demonstrate positive attitude; foster teamwork; responsive to customer/Mfg issues
- Effective written and verbal communication skills; administrative and financial skills, excellent problem solver; able to interact with personnel in other organizations
- Ability to read and understand Engineering prints/drawings
- Bus Body and Chassis assembly
- Program management and launch
