PLC Manufacturing Engineer Job at Optimal Inc. in Dearborn

Fully Onsite. 70% Travel to Both local and out of state*

Position Description:

Constraint Management, Factory Information System and IIOT Monitoring Implementation, Act as liaison with Controls group to coordinate all controls and FIS updates

• Coordinate and manage updates to FIS extended properties for New Model Programs
• Ensure FIS is aligned with each plant's simulation model.
• Global FIS planning & costing support and coaching for other regions
• Review and approve ACRs for FIS Applications
• Review and approve all FIS pilots (reports, versions, etc.)
• Lead quarterly FIS reviews with N.A. Plant ME Managers and FIS Administrators to share Specification changes, FIS Strategies, and collect plant feedback
• Contribute and support the L2, L3, & FIS Strategy & Governance Meetings to provide assessment, needs, and wants for Final Assembly Engineering
• Experience in PLC Programming & Troubleshooting

Skills Required:

• Support all Executive Constraint Management Meetings
• Director of Manufacturing (DOM) Constraint Management Reviews
• POP Committee
• Roll-out new versions to DOMs and Plant Personnel
• Assist plants with developing & interpreting Executive Throughput Packages
• Review plant Executive Throughput Packages during bi-weekly FAE Constraint Review
• 404 Throughput Status
• Constraint #1 Action Matrix
• Constraint #2 Action Matrix o Any Significant FAE Issues/Losses
• Develop and maintain the Executive Throughput Package Pro Forma, including all Single Point Lessons and attachments
• Maintain & update Productivity Operating Process / Constraint Management web-based training for FAE.
• Maintain Productivity Operating Process SharePoint website for Final Assembly documentation.
• Experience in PLC Programming & Troubleshooting

Factory Information System

• Evaluate program assumptions and provide FIS cost estimates for new model program cost studies based on latest FIS Specification and Lessons Learned.
• New Process Control Board Requirements
• Process Control Boards at end of Useful Life
• New Tooling Assets
• New Conveyor Assets
• Rebalance Configurations (assets & PCBs)
• Asset Revalidation o Provide IT with initial estimate of drop counts, asset counts, & server counts
• Develop initial SOW for FIS Integrators & FIS Launch Managers with a complete list of assets (tooling & conveyor) and Process Control Boards
• Maintain and improve Global FIS Specification o Provide FAE input and signoff of all FIS specification revisions
• Maintain and publish specifications for Final Assembly Process Control Boards
• Review with Global Regional leads
• Review and Incorporate Lessons Learned into Specification
• Interface with IT on updates to IT FIS Standards, including PCBs

Experience Required:

• 3 years of experience in Constraint Management and Factory Information Systems.

Education Required:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science.