Associate Project Engineer

Essential Key Functions and Accountabilities: (Responsibilities and major tasks performed)

- Lead and manage the manufacturing launch of new products for our customers. These customers include Caterpillar, Volvo Truck Group, Trane HVAC, John Deere, and many other leaders in their industry.

- Create and manage the project budget and timeline.

- Communicate project status with our customers, maintaining trust, confidence, and the NSC reputation as a best-in-class supplier.

- Communicate project status internally to stakeholders, cross-functional team members, and to NSC leadership at each milestone of the New Product Introduction process.

- Proactively identify and resolve project risks. These risks may be very technical in nature or also risks to product cost, safety, or project timing.

- Engineer and launch new manufacturing processes to make parts fully and consistently to print specifications.

- Create all engineering data and documents to support the new manufacturing processes. This includes the following: Drawings, Bills-of-Material, Routings, Standard Rates, Process FMEA, Work Instructions, and Quality Control Plans.

- Collaborate with Tooling Engineers and Designers to design, build, and validate the tooling and quality control gauges required for your projects.

- Identify and lead continuous improvement projects.

Experience and Education Required:

- Project Management

- Ability to fully interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.

- Engineering and Quality Control knowledge of manufacturing processes

- Laser Cutting

- Press Brake

- Metal Stamping

- MIG and Projection Welding

- Assembly and Complex Assemblies

- Complex Problem Solving

- Effective Verbal and Written Communication

- Process Improvement

- Organization and Attention to Detail

- Relationship-Building

- BS in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

- Prior experience is not required but is desirable.

Job Specific Competencies:

- Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA)

- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)

- Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFM, DFA)

- Solidworks and CAD Sheet Metal Design

- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)

- Statistical Process Control (SPC)

- Lean Manufacturing, Six-Sigma

Working Conditions:

- In-Office Position – Occasionally Remote by Exception

- Sitting, Standing, Walking, Climbing Stairs

- Travel up to 20%

INCLUSION OF ANY ITEM ON THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS NOT INTENDED TO EXCLUDE OTHER DUTIES OR REQUIREMENTS DEEMED NECESSARY BY MANAGEMENT FOR OUTSTANDING CUSTOMER SERVICE.