Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of golf cars, utility and personal transportation vehicles, snowmobiles, side-by-sides, all-terrain vehicles, professional turf-care equipment, and ground support equipment. Textron Specialized Vehicles markets products under several different brands. Its vehicles are found in environments ranging from golf courses to factories, airports to planned communities, and theme parks to hunting preserves. Responsibilities: • Lead and design manufacturing methods, best practices, and cyclical standardized work to support operations. • Design, standardize, and deploy manufacturing engineering processes to meet quality and cycle time expectations analyzing cyclical standard work and developing documentation and standards. • Diagnose manufacturing problems using fast problem-solving, project problem solving, 5-Whys, 8- Disciplines, FMEA, and prevention techniques. • Utilize the scientific method for the root cause problem solving and implementing irreversible corrective actions. • Design fixtures, tooling, electromechanical, mechanical, and electronic error-proofing to improve manufacturability and quality. • Assess DFA (Design for Assembly) and DFM (Design for Manufacturability) principles in the legacy manufacturing products and processes to perform a recurrent work plan to mitigate and solve lifetime problems embedded in the product and process design. • Lead the automation team and devise automation strategies promoting robotics, AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles), and intelligent process automation to fix critical problems embedded in the manufacturing process. • Manage asset budget, capital projects and production support projects for automation, tooling, and manufacturing engineering. • Manage material numbers, work centers, MBOM (manufacturing bill of materials) and documents to match the manufacturing process with the ERP established process. • Design segmentation strategies to properly align MTS (Make-to-Stock) and ATO (Assemble-to Order) material numbers identifying parts, sub-assemblies, and assemblies and create error-proofing system. • Design and develop work systems that describe, maintain, and ensure the execution of the manufacturing engineering responsibilities, establishing guidelines to properly support production. • Strategic liaison in manufacturing processes, tooling design, tooling fabrication, and automation • Design and execute resilient supply chain strategies through insourcing processes and designing and implementing manufacturing methods to support solutions to supply chain challenges.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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