New Flyer is North America's heavy-duty transit bus leader with various locations in North America. Offering the most advanced product line under the Xcelsior® and Xcelsior CHARGE™ brands. It also offers infrastructure development through New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions™, a service dedicated to providing safe, sustainable, and reliable charging and mobility solutions. Further information is available at www.newflyer.com.

Reporting to the Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor, this position will support all manufacturing engineering activities within the assigned cells, including facilitating lean manufacturing initiatives, communicating ECN's, assigning inventory locations, conducting contract reviews, creating standard work instructions (SWI's), evaluating standards and completing capital and facility upgrades.

Requirements

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Provide manufacturing engineering support and services within assigned manufacturing cell(s)
• Work effectively as a cell team member to ensure operational metrics are achieved and any remedial action is actively pursued.
• Maintain current updates on manufacturing engineering related tasks on the manufacturing cell log.
• Represent manufacturing engineering within assigned cells at the daily cell meetings and weekly plant metrics meetings.
• Design or specify any equipment/tooling/racking required to support manufacturing.
• Review relevant engineering change notifications (ECNs) within assigned cells or assigned option groups and support all aspects of production implementation.
• Assign default locators to all parts within assigned manufacturing cells.
• Create standard work instructions and hot sheets and train the necessary personnel on those standards.
• Update and maintain layouts (plant & cell layouts and inventory, housekeeping, emergency, & security maps etc.)
• Specify and facilitate capital and equipment upgrades, installations or modifications.
• Implement and facilitate lean manufacturing initiatives (5S, value stream mapping, set-up reduction etc.)
• Promote an environment of continuous improvement and team work.
• Lead or participate in SWAT team meetings, ensuring that necessary action is taken between cross-functional groups to resolve issues.
• Conduct process observations to ensure that assigned time standards are fair and consistent.
• Maintain necessary resource plans for ensuring production activities are properly resourced.
• Validate routings and submit and implement routing change requests to process planning where appropriate
• Conduct contract reviews prior to contract start to ensure production preparedness.
• Participate in Non- Conforming Parts (NCP) meetings as assigned, to assist with the disposition of non-conforming materials.
• Initiate engineering change requests (ECRs) where appropriate.
• Support process planning and production engineering.
• Participate in internal and outside Supplier Application Approvals and audits, as required.
• Communicate Engineering Change Notification (ECN) to Quality Assurance and Production per ECN Process.
• Liaison between Product Engineering and Production.
• Provide pre-production support, including, but not limited to, organizing and leading pre-production meetings, and reviewing pre-production information packets and addressing issues as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL:

• Post-secondary education in a related engineering discipline and or equivalent experience is required for this position.
• Lean certification or applicable equivalent experience is required for this position.
• Superior computer and organizational skills.
• Goal orientated and motivation to achieve tasks within set timelines.
• Well-versed in AutoCAD.
• Previous experience working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment would be considered an asset.
• Knowledgeable in Unigraphics and Oracle would be considered an asset.

Benefits

WHY JOIN US:

· Be a part of a team leading the world's electrification of mass mobility

· Competitive Wages and comprehensive benefit package with Immediate benefit eligibility

· Paid holidays and vacation

· Passionate about creating a better product, a better workplace, and a better world

· Inclusive workplace culture that values and empowers team members.

· On-the-job training in a continuous learning environment (we've invested 10.9 million in 2023)

· Advancement opportunities within our family of companies

New Flyer is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity, ensure equitable experiences and are committed to creating an inclusive environment reflective of the communities we operate. Accommodations are available at all stages of the recruitment process, at the candidates' request.