*We Are #Hiring for a Process Engineer in Sterling Heights, MI*
Job Title: Manufacturing Process Engineer
Location: Sterling Heights, MI (Fully Onsite)
Job Type: Automotive
Shift: 6:30am-3:00pm, Mon-Fri
Expected hours per week (must include “per week”): 40/week
Pay Range (must include “per hour”): $45-47/hr
Job Description:
About the Role
We are seeking a Manufacturing Process Engineer to support Axle Assembly operations in a fast-paced automotive manufacturing environment. This role is responsible for improving safety, quality, and productivity by analyzing manufacturing processes, solving production issues, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on optimizing assembly operations, supporting equipment launches, reducing process variation, and ensuring manufacturing standards are met.
Key Responsibilities
- Support manufacturing process engineering activities for axle assembly
- Drive continuous improvement in safety, quality, and productivity
- Analyze and improve manufacturing processes using engineering and problem-solving techniques
- Lead projects involving equipment delivery, installation, and commissioning
- Conduct process audits to ensure compliance with operational standards and guidelines
- Perform ergonomic evaluations and implement corrective actions as needed
- Investigate root causes of inventory and reject issues and drive corrective actions
- Create and maintain process documentation and work instruction sheets
- Support assembly operations by delivering capable processes and tools
- Lead resolution of machining and process-related concerns
- Drive lean manufacturing and variability reduction initiatives
- Ensure compliance with plant, corporate, environmental, and governmental standards
- Identify throughput constraints and implement improvements to meet production targets
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of manufacturing process engineering experience
- Experience in manufacturing/process engineering within a production environment
- Strong background in:
- Process Validation
- Lean Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Process Engineering
- Problem Solving
- Good Manufacturing Practices
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and team-building skills
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and effectively support plant operations
- High School Diploma or GED required
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field
- Experience with assembly lines and automotive manufacturing processes
- Experience with PPAP, FMEA, DOE, Gauge R&R, and capability studies
- Understanding of Lean Six Sigma methodologies
- Equipment launch and project management experience
- Experience working with axles or other automotive components
- Knowledge of ergonomic analysis
- Familiarity with Visual Factory Management
Why Join Us?
This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys being on the plant floor, solving real-time manufacturing challenges, and making a direct impact on production performance. You’ll play a key role in improving operations, supporting launches, and driving process excellence in a critical assembly environment.
Benefits: 80 hours paid time off, and medical insurance contributions, dental vision and our 401k retirement savings plan
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