Paint Shop Maintenance Engineer - Ladson, United States - Mercedes-Benz Group

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Aufgaben Shape the future todayThe world is changing.

The question is, what will be our contribution to the outcome? We have set the pace in the field of mobility from the very beginning, and we will continue to do so.

At Mercedes-Benz Vans, interdisciplinary teams are developing the mobility of tomorrow. Our goal is to make mobility safer, simpler, and more sustainable for people across the globe.

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This is your opportunity to make a contribution that extends far beyond your job title. At Mercedes-Benz Vans, we offer you the perfect environment for your professional and personal growth.

Cutting-edge training and promising career opportunities will help you to foster and expand your professional skill set as well as your individual strengths.

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Job Overview:
Monitors Department performance. Develops, implements, and improves the operation of equipment. Acts as interface between maintenance technicians and engineering to ensure the maintenance of equipment in production.

Implement an established maintenance program and maintain detailed maintenance recordsRequirements:

• Develops best practices to improve equipment capacity, quality and reliability
• Repair, adjust, and maintain production equipment, machinery, or instruments in cooperation with internal and external staff to ensure that it functions reliably and complies with process specifications
• Responsible for coordinating activities (PM's, TPM, problem solving) of third party contractors, vendors, or suppliers related to the maintenance field
• Investigates complex problems, analyzes root causes and derives resolutions. Will use 8D Problem Solving Process to ensure sustainable quality products
• Develops operational strategies to achieve energy and financial objectives
• Participates in budget preparation and monitor expenses and profitability
• Ensures equipment uptime, MTTR, MTBF, and OEE by relying on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
• Develop and approve training guidelines for all documentation and spare part related processes, systems and tools. Provide training and support to business partners
• Ensures that highly technical equipment meets required specifications and high quality standards
• Evaluates current production activities and drives improvements plans and coordinates problem solving with internationalthird party contractors, vendors, or suppliers to increase reliability of production lines and equipment
• Participates in new production line and equipment buy-off processes, ensuring that components and documentation are according to the Mercedes-Benz Integra standard and specifications
• Develops planning standards, methods, and procedures to maintain robust PM, TPM processes as well as robust containments and countermeasures for equipment downtime
• Stays current with product specifications, engineering technology and production processes
• Proposes and manages medium-scale projects from beginning to end. May scope and manage large capital investment projects (>$5M)
• Collaborates and takes over responsibilities with other departments in preparing scope of work including project requirements, milestones, deliverables, end products, documents and reports that are expected to be provided by external providers
• Create and maintain material release lists in collaboration with the standardization departments in a worldwide network of all Mercedes-Benz Plants. Verify and ensure that all projects contain all necessary components to cover all required technologies
• Verify requests from Line builders for component special releases related to additional stations or equipment. Ensure that additional components meet Integra requirements or suggests alternative parts for various use cases (Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronics)
• May train and support less experienced engineers
• Participates in regularly scheduled team meetings
• Will perform other duties as assigned Qualifikationen Bachelor's Degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant degree required.

5 years plus of relevant experience required, strongly preferring automotive environment including experience with:
PLC experience such as; OMRON, AllenBradley, Siemens 3D-CAD experience such as; SolidWorks, Catia, Siemens NX, ect.

Hands-on experience pneumatic, hydraulic, electrical, and computer controlled systems Hands-on experience with process devices such as; motor drives, sensors, AC/DC converters, lifts, conveyors, etc.

• Experience with Paint applications (chemicals, sprays, filtration, pumps, degreaser, hydrocyclones, rectifier process, anodes, anolyte systems, ultra-filtration, DI-water, industrial paint oven curing)
• Experience with joining technologies, clinching, gluing and fluid technology
• SAPiproSAP-iPro, cbFC,
• NACOS
• DEEP (Digital equipment engineering portal)
• SRM 4
• Siemens NX
• EPlan
• Integra Hands-on experience in off-line simulations
• Experience with project management
• Experience with equipment installationKnowledge & Skills
• Knowledge of manufacturing methods/procedures and process technology.
• Ability to present complex technical information related to achieving goals of the department
• Must be able to evaluate alternative solutions and prepare decision making process
• Proven written and verbal communication at all levels within an organization with good negotiation skills.
• Able to anticipate needs and deliver timely, relevant solutions and actions.
• Proven design & implementation of Continuous Improvement themes with savings
• Experience in process layout and optimization incorporating asset utilization is a plus
• Ability to troubleshoot, instruct repair techniques, & assist if needed for root cause analysis in stressful situations
• Ability to read & create blueprints and schematics
• Advanced mechanical and electrical production line (OEM) and equipment knowledge
• Solid knowledge of CAE and CAD documentation
• Advanced experience of spare parts and warehouse management, incl. purchase order expediting
• Extensive experience in new production line ramp up support (procedure, buy-offs, etc.)We are all in for change. Are you too? Apply nowIf you have experience in the above and are interested in joining an outstanding company we welcome you to apply. The division Mercedes-Benz Vans is world renown for quality and innovative productsEXCELLENT COMPENSATION & BENEFITS PLAN WITH 401k MATCHINGMercedes-Benz Vans, LLC ("MBV") is a plant in Ladson, South Carolina that produces Sprinter vans for the U.S. and Canadian market under the brands Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner. The midsize Mercedes-Benz Metris vans are also reassembled at this location. Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC invested 500 million U.S. dollars in the construction of a new Sprinter production plant in addition to an expansion of the previous assembly operations. In September 2018, MBV officially opened its new plant, located next to existing operations in the North Charleston area. The MBV facility will provide up to 1,300 jobs by the end of the decade and is expected to create at least 600 additional jobs in the region through its suppliersMore than 130,000 Sprinters have been assembled in North Charleston and delivered to destinations in the U.S. since 2006. The U.S. is now the second largest market for Sprinter vans, after Germany. Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that appreciates and leverages the diversity of our team. We provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation),age, national origin, religion, marital status, veteran status, physical or other disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law