Position: Product Engineer Supervisor
Type: Permanent
Location: Port Elizabeth

Requirements:
Engineering Degree
At least 5 Years experience in an Automotive Manufacturing Facility
Previous working experience in harness industry will be advantageous
PC Skills (Excel: Intermediate / Advanced, PowerPoint and Word)
Presentation Skills
Problem Solving
Organising Capacity
Knowledge of FISHBONE Diagram, 5 WHY
Analytical and Systematically
Capacity of analysis, syntheses and decision

Key Responsibilities:
•Follow-up the implementation of procedures and work instructions
•Define the new procedures for Product Engineering
•Participate to cost reduction programs (CTO-Cost Technical Optimization)
•Coordinate the activities associated with the new FRQ
•Assure activities standardization in line with Company procedures
•Identify the training needs for product engineers
•Able to determine the optimal personnel for the manufacturing program, bearing in mind the importance of uniformity criteria and their application
•Responsible for detecting, launching and developing tools, means and / or systems, processes aiming at the optimization and improvement of activities, as well as sharing them with any other Plant through the “Best Practices” System.
•Summarize monthly project situation as well as parameters and the improvement plans.
•Responsible for keeping up the company’s norms in the responsible area, as well as for establishing and up-dating new internal norms in the department.
•Hierarchically and functionally reports to the Engineering Manager
•Supervise the accuracy of the BOM, cutting files, Standard times
•Participate with multifunctional team to analyze / update of the FMEA documents.
•Implement 5S standards in all activities associated with Product Engineering problem solving.