Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative-energy powertrains. Serving three primary markets – passenger vehicle, commercial truck, and off-highway equipment – Dana provides the world's original-equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.
You will help develop Dana’s manufacturing controls architecture, approve the design and type of equipment used in production lines, and help support Dana’s global manufacturing strategy. The primary focus of this role will be to ensure the successful launch of capital equipment globally for Dana’s new program launches.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
Lead design and development of new and innovative standard bill of processes (SBOP) required to assemble electric motors.
Implements equipment and facility strategies to support advanced process development in our Manufacturing Centers globally.
Leads the develop of process technologies required to support long term product technology roadmaps in product and advanced engineering.
Initiates benchmarking activities to ensure Dana is assessing state of the art technology for all manufacturing methods & processes.
Develops capital plans for business cases, strategies & action plans for deployment of manufacturing methods for all core and strategic manufacturing processes.
Review PLC logic & debug for proper content, error-proofing, and data collection function
Review and approve electrical and controls schematics and assembly system BOMs
Ability to create and deploy global standard for part genealogy, data collection, and traceability
Participates in stage gate design reviews for new customer programs and advanced development projects to ensure the design is following DFA/DFM.
Participates in the advanced development of manufacturing processes for product deployment
Implements and creates smart, flexible manufacturing systems, and works with local engineering teams to deploy manufacturing equipment.
Lead process to share and deploy best practices for controls engineering manufacturing and assembly across global locations and applicable business units.
Support facilities in development of long-range capital investment plan, as well as review and approve capital investment projects for global manufacturing facilities to ensure adherence equipment and programming standards
Develop/ maintain standard manufacturing / quality documentation for core processes
Maintain and promote a clean, safe, and organized work environment
Support customer program launch activity as required.
Travel as necessary to support operations globally.
Perform other assigned duties incidental to the occupation.
Requirements:
Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Technology.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in manufacturing Controls processes.
Must understand statistics, as it relates to manufacturing and assembly processes.
Low and high-volume production experience.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong project management skills.
Strong initiative and the ability to work well in a team environment.
Computer skills with a proficiency in Microsoft Office.
Must be able to travel for extended periods both domestically and internationally.
Willingness to work extended or irregular hours to ensure that key job responsibilities are accomplished.
Preferred:
experience programming in Siemens and Rockwell (required). Beckhoff (optional)
experience integrating Cognex and Keyence vision systems
HMI programming experience
Robot experience ABB, Fanuc
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
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