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What to Expect
The Role:
The Staff Maintenance & Equipment Engineer will lead the equipment engineering
and maintenance teams in General Assembly for Model Y. Drive behavior and
build management systems to ensure all equipment is safe to operate, with high
availability, good reliability and appropriate quality and cycle rate
performance. Partner with all departments in the Fremont factory to build a
unified approach to maintenance goals and outcomes.
What You'll Do
Direct and help develop equipment upgrade plan to support production
capacity increases and ensure high availability of equipment systems. Work
with Mfg. Engineering team to successfully land and ramp capital
investment projects
Direct equipment/controls engineers and maintenance team in day-to-day
coverage of production line equipment's, including rapid response on
broken equipment's to minimize downtime and maximize productivity.
Develop, modify, and document repairs/troubleshooting processes
Establish and/or modify systems to ensure that preventative maintenance on
all manufacturing tools and equipment, including conveyors, robots and
other automated and semi-automated manufacturing systems are being done
effectively
Work with all cross-functional teams including; Design, NPI, Mfg.
Engineering, Production, Quality and Process Engineering to ensure
equipment and maintenance documentation is always available and current
Investigate and implement countermeasures to prevent repetitive
breakdowns, lead RCA exercises for maintenance and engineering teams
Maintenance safety program: provide proper training (LOTO, 5-S, Arc
Flash, PPE, etc.), tools, and equipment to ensure that the maintenance
team operates safely at all times, and always lead by example
Manage a wide variety of engineering disciplines across process
engineering, controls engineering and automation engineering for
maintaining production standards, implementation, and project demand
Highly motivated to look at wider organizational cost initiatives to
optimize headcount, spares and minimize outsources maintenance and
equipment labor
Leads in the interviewing, hiring, training, and decision making process
for all new hires in the Engineering and Maintenance Department
Actively participate in early phase equipment / production line
specification, design, qualification, installation and site acceptance
testing
What You'll Bring
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Ability to manage workload while contributing to a positive, team oriented
work environment
Minimum of 10 years of engineering / maintenance management experience in
a high volume manufacturing/industrial environment is required
Adept at industrial safety practices and policies for high volume, cutting
edge technologies
Experienced in NFPA 70E, LOTO, and RoHS regulations
A demonstrated history of multi-site responsibility is highly preferred
Skilled at leading, coaching and developing direct reports across a broad
range of engineering and technical disciplines
Broad experience with lean manufacturing systems and methodologies,
including; Tier Accountability, Layered Auditing, Continuous Improvement
and Kaizen Activities
Experience with budgeting, forecasting and financial planning for a large
technical team (+100 people)
Availability to cover shifts of all schedule for PTO / absences as needed
and for off-hours calls
