Career Area: Engineering
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About Our Team: The Wheeled Products Engineering (WPE) Light Fabrications team supports Large Mining Trucks, Large Wheel Loaders, Off-Highway Trucks, Wheel Tractor Scrapers, Articulated Trucks, and Hard Rock Vehicles. Engineers gain broad exposure to design, analysis, test, manufacturing, and supplier collaboration.
Job Duties: This is an Engineering TL position supporting Hard Rock Vehicles (HRV) product line consisting of underground mining loaders and trucks. Responsibilities include managing multiple engineering projects, coordinating resources, overseeing project progress, and directing project staffing.
* Manage complex engineering projects involving multiple functions, organisations, products, or value chains.
* Develop project scope to address business challenges and opportunities.
* Coordinate resources across sales, marketing, product development groups, value chain, and manufacturing.
* Oversee project progress and costs; communicate status with stakeholders and participating functional areas.
* DIRECT PROJECT STAFFING; MOTIVATE AND DEVELOP PROJECT TEAM AND TEAM MEMBERS.
* APQP QUALITY MANAGEMENT - Coordinate between engineering, manufacturing teams, and suppliers to support gathering requirements and facilitate TFC discussions and PPAP development.
* Data Analysis & Extraction - Analyze data to provide recommendations and extract data required to confirm conclusions or results.
* Failure Prevention & Resolution – Prioritize preventing failures using available processes and tools and identify root cause of failures and suggest robust solutions.
Key Skills Required:
* Products and Services: Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups.
* Technical Excellence: Knowledge of given technology and various application methods.
* Influencing Through Expertise: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies.
* Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics.
* Team Management: Knowledge of effective team building techniques.
* Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis.
* Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features and ability to design, build, and develop new products from concept through to production.
Basic Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in accredited Engineering or Materials Science curriculum and 10+ years of progressive engineering experience, or 15+ years of progressive engineering experience.
The Top Candidates Will Also Have:
* Mechanical Engineering degree.
* Previous experience designing light fabrications components.
* Able to work well in collaborative environment and communicate effectively in cross-functional teams.
* Executed all phases of at least one major new product development program.
* Collaborated with suppliers to optimize designs for manufacturability.
* Directed the work of other design and detailing resources to achieve design goals.
* Personal experience executing APQP from beginning to end.
* Hands-on experience with machinery, heavy equipment, manufacturing processes, welding, etc.