Highlights
Job Title: Maintenance & Engineering Manager Job Location: Grand Prairie, TX 75050 Duration: 12 Months Job Type: Temporary Assignment Work Type: Onsite Job Description: The Maintenance & Engineering Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance, engineering, facilities, and capital improvement activities within an automotive seating manufacturing facility. Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide The below job opportunity is to one of Our Client it is an American company deal with manufacturing automotive seating and automotive electrical systems.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Grand Prairie, TX |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $50–$55 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide The below job opportunity is to one of Our Client it is an American company deal with manufacturing automotive seating and automotive electrical systems.
Job Title: Maintenance & Engineering Manager
Job Location: Grand Prairie, TX 75050
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- The Maintenance & Engineering Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance, engineering, facilities, and capital improvement activities within an automotive seating manufacturing facility. This position ensures the reliability and performance of highly automated assembly equipment, trim cover installation processes, material handling systems, and plant infrastructure. The role drives continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, delivery, cost, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) while supporting customer requirements and IATF 16949 standards. This position builds upon the traditional Plant Technical Manager responsibilities for process improvement, equipment design, facility modifications, cost analysis, and maintenance leadership.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead all maintenance activities for seating production equipment, utilities, and facility infrastructure.
- Develop and sustain preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.
- Ensure maximum equipment uptime to support customer production schedules and JIT delivery requirements.
- Manage troubleshooting and repair of automated assembly systems, robotics, conveyors, PLC-controlled equipment, welding systems, and material handling systems.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective action implementation for recurring equipment failures.
- Develop maintenance staffing plans, training programs, and succession planning initiatives.
- Develop and implement manufacturing process improvements to enhance safety, quality, productivity, and cost performance.
- Design and improve workstations, plant layouts, ergonomics, manpower utilization, labor routings, and material flow systems.
- Conduct time studies and establish labor and equipment standards to improve operational efficiency.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives utilizing Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and TPM methodologies.
- Analyze manufacturing data to identify productivity opportunities and waste reduction initiatives.
- Support launch activities for new seating programs and engineering changes.
- Manage capital expenditure projects from concept through installation, validation, and production launch.
- Research, specify, procure, and implement new manufacturing equipment, tools, fixtures, and automation systems.
- Evaluate project feasibility and prepare cost justification and capital authorization requests.
- Work with suppliers, contractors, and corporate engineering teams to ensure successful project execution.
- Oversee equipment installations, plant expansions, and facility modifications.
- Direct maintenance and improvements of plant facilities, utilities, HVAC systems, compressed air systems, electrical distribution systems, and environmental equipment.
- Coordinate building renovations, expansions, and infrastructure upgrades.
- Work with maintenance and engineering personnel to modify and improve facility layout and production areas.
- Ensure compliance with IATF 16949, ISO requirements, customer-specific requirements, environmental regulations, and company standards.
- Lead equipment-related quality improvements and error-proofing initiatives.
- Drive a strong safety culture through risk assessments, machine guarding improvements, and maintenance safety programs.
- Support internal, customer, and third-party audits.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable OSHA, EPA, and corporate safety standards.
- Develop, manage, and improve departmental operating and capital budgets.
- Monitor maintenance spending and identify cost reduction opportunities.
- Manage spare parts inventory and maintenance purchasing activities.
- Evaluate cost savings opportunities through reliability improvements, automation, and process optimization.
- Provide leadership and direction to maintenance, engineering, and technical personnel.
- Develop departmental goals aligned with plant objectives.
- Conduct performance evaluations, coaching, and employee development activities.
- Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate closely with Production, Quality, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Corporate Engineering functions.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related technical field.
- Minimum 7 years of engineering and maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing maintenance and engineering teams.
- Automotive manufacturing experience required.
- Automotive seating manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
- Experience supporting OEM customers such as GM, Ford, Stellantis, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai/Kia, or similar preferred.
Strong knowledge of:
- Robotics and automation systems
- PLC programming and troubleshooting
- Welding technologies
- Conveyor systems
- Pneumatic and hydraulic systems
- Industrial electrical systems
- Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Lean Manufacturing principles
- Proficiency with AutoCAD or similar engineering software.
- Experience with CMMS systems.
- Strong understanding of ergonomic design and workplace optimization.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Equipment Uptime
- Preventive Maintenance Compliance
- Maintenance Cost per Unit
- Scrap and Rework Reduction
- Downtime Reduction
- MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
- MTTR (Mean Time to Repair)
- Capital Project Performance
- Safety Incident Rate
- Continuous Improvement Savings
- Employee Development Metrics
Preferred Automotive Seating Experience:
- Seat Frame Assembly
- Robotic Welding
- Foam Pad Manufacturing
- Trim Cover Cutting and Sewing
- Seat Assembly Operations
- Headrest Manufacturing
- Final Seat Testing and Validation
- Just-In-Time (JIT) and Just-In-Sequence (JIS) Operations
- Automated Material Handling Systems
- OEM Launch and Program Management.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
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