Project Engineer - Powertrain in Southfield, Michigan at Gonzalez Group

Mechanical Project Engineer: Powertrain - Machining & Assembly

Summary:

• The Project Engineer is accountable for the design of engineering projects with top-down oversight from inception (proposal) to completion (customer buy-off).
• Must ensure that all projects are prepared and completed safely adhering to the required standards of budget, timeline and scope.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work in a manner that protects the health, safety and welfare of yourself and others and adhere to all company policies and procedures.
• Liaise with the customer, internal function and subcontractors to endure the smooth running if the project
• Evaluate and review customer requirements & specifications and communicate them to all parties in the organization.
• Review government and industry specifications
• Review as sold PBS
• Review original baseline planning
• Lead handover meetings with ESC
• Review Lesson Learned from previous projects
• Coordinate System Engineers involved in the project, ensuring homogeneous solutions among all commodities.
• Review the engineering make/buy strategy
• Maintain project schedule by monitoring project progress.
• Manage the project within budget
• Continuously monitor project scope of work and budget for matching
• Scout supplier to create RFQ contents
• Identify and document added/reduced scope of work with potential impact on resource workload, timing and costs.
• Be appointed as Customer Technical Interface
• Review and update project open issues list
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems
• Define, review and update project risk and opportunities
• Monitor project cost to complete (CTC)
• Review and update project performance KPI reports - actual cost/costs to complete - progress
• Attends to all internal project reviews
• Attends to all customer project reviews
• Attends to all supplier project reviews
• Document engineering management Lessons Learned
• Be appointed as Dispatcher and gate keeper in the NC's management
• Provide feedback to supplier
• React promptly and effectively to changing client and product needs
• Estimate budget for changes
• Review engineering change for timing evaluation
• Define the technical solution to meet the change requirements and consider the best strategy for implementing the change.
• Develop execution plan for the change activities and establish the timing (duration) to execute the change
• Monitor and update the status of the engineering change activities for each phase, e.g., progress, forecasted completion date, open issues (if required), etc.
• Compile risk assessments and method statements for site installations
  

Skills:

• Change Management
• Clamping strategy
• Controls understanding of industrial equipment and machinery
• Cost estimation
• Design for manufacturing
• Design to installation / commissioning
• Discrete Event Simulation and availability / efficiency calculation
• Ergonomics evaluations
• Health assessment for reuse / retooling lines
• Layout design
• Logistics standards / processes
• Mechanical understanding of industrial equipment and machinery
• NC management
• Open Issue Management
• Process engineering and cycle time
• Production management (scheduling, data management, traceability concept)
• Safety and risk assessment analysis
• Safety standards and norms
• Scope control and budget matching
• Standard product and integrated machines specifications release
• Supplier assessment
• Technical customer management
• Transportation / conveyor systems design
• Value analysis, design to cost
• Workload capacity tools
• Project risk management
• Project management fundamentals
• Project planning and monitoring

Education:

• Master or Bachelor’s Degree in automation, engineering or business is preferred
  
  

Previous Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience in the automation/automotive industry, preferred in the powetrain area; machining and/or assembly.
  

Travel will be required