Technical Office Engineer

This is a highly technical position that requires practical experience in process engineering and new product development through to stabilized production for the cranes components and assemblies used in overhead cranes and cranes engines. The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of the cranes and assembly of components and associated processes with the desire and capability to take on new challenges in unfamiliar areas to help enable our mission always.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as the technical point of contact for assigned parts, solving emergent challenges at suppliers and mitigating risk to the manifest by addressing high-impact manufacturing and quality challenges
• Review issues on assigned parts and solve to the root cause, implementing changes at the supplier, appropriate, drive further actions to closure, and re-source to new suppliers where appropriate.
• Create and disposition issue tickets where needed, working with engineering counterparts to implement, but not limited to, required re-work, repair or use as-is disposition
• Become thoroughly familiar with your assigned parts and the processes that make up the overall assembly and become the primary point of contact for supply chain-related defects on your parts
• Work with procurement to find exceptional suppliers and vet them appropriately for quality and ability to meet our aggressive tact times
• Conduct design for manufacturing (DFM) reviews to ensure parts are manufacturable at early stages, preferably prior to sourcing
• Own the NPI process at a supplier for new parts, drawing changes, or when re-sourcing existing parts to a new supplier
• Drive the PPAP program to ensure stable supply, reduce inspection oversight and improve overall delivery time
• Demonstrate innovation, technical excellence, attention to detail, self-direction and courage
• Drive for results and customer satisfaction by collaborating with teams, leading projects and continuously driving improvement in the supply base
• Lead containment activities on assigned parts, working with cross-functional counterparts to agree on scope, path forward and ultimate resolution