Position Duties:

Responsible for FTPM activities within the department

Coordinate and plan maintenance actions. Preventive, Planned and Crisis Maintenance.

Ensure all safety standards are met during maintenance activities.

Optimization of current production processes

Coaching plants in continuous improvement, standardization, and lean concepts

Assisting plants in addressing equipment down time issues

Developing preventative / predictive maintenance practices to ensure 100% equipment uptime

Training and education of plant personnel and leadership

Providing input on new equipment design and purchase

Supporting new model / equipment launch as required

Lead quality related actions that imply machine reliability improvements.

Be point of contact to Plant Engineering, local vendors and commodity suppliers regarding equipment issues.

Drive maintenence cost and budget control.

Drive Maintenance metrics within the department.

Issue regular reports on maintenance metrics "

Ensure all areas operate to FPS tools and FTPM innitiatives.

Motivate teams to provide ideas to improve equipment availability and document in R&M reports."

Support and coach problem solving activities within the department, mainly focused on Realibility and Maintenability.

Coordinate Maintenance Planning and Shutdown Planning actions within the department.

Support Work Group and Department meetings regarding equipment improvement and JPH actions."

Participate actively in JPH Roadmap reviews.

Provide technical assistance to personnel and areas where necessary.

Identify training needs for skilled employees, coordinate training plan for the department."

Work with CORA, MAXIMO, QLSCM, POSMON and any other required system.

Coordinate skilled personnel during breakdowns to fix the issue with the minimal disturbance on production. Ensure resources are planned during the line breaks.

Participate in interplant benchmarking exercises

Actively participate in Simultaneous Engineering meetings, Forward Planning and Product Design to ensure Maintenability standards are followed.

Preferred Requirements

Education: Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Industrial or Electrical / Automation engineering preferred. Equivalent experience accepted

Experience:  3-5 years’ experience in manufacturing; stamping experience preferred

Robot / interpress transfer (ABB / Fanuc / Gudel)

Stamping / press equipment

Vision experience strongly preferred (Cognex)

PLC competency.

Lean implementation

AutoCAD

Minimum Requirements:

Education: High School Diploma

Experience:

Ability to optimize equipment programs and troubleshoot issues to identify root cause

Excellent communicator who can train both hourly and salary team members

Must be a self-starter who will take ownership of projects and see them through to completion with limited supervision

Candidate must be flexible to significant travel

Successful candidate must be able to demonstrate leadership in ONE FORD (leadership) behaviors combined with outstanding interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills