Roles and Responsibilities:

• Thoroughly understand current component manufacturing capabilities and evaluate NPI components to provide recommendations to best match capabilities.
• Collaborate with design engineers throughout all phases of the design process to ensure that product is designed to fully utilize fabrication and welding technologies within the Jackson Component manufacturing.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineers to establish the production processes and test methods in component manufacturing.
• Actively participate in manufacturing project core teams representing the Quality organization for the Component Manufacturing Team
• Coordinate the readiness for production on all NPI and model year projects for fab, weld, and paint.
• Involved in current product deficiencies to understand manufacturing capabilities.
• Ensure product performance through participation in D/PFMEA risk assessment and implementation of effective process controls.
• Key Product & Process Characteristics – KCC – control plan – work instructions: support KCC definition, control plans, and quality relevant aspects in work instructions, in collaboration with assembly quality engineers
• Report general process capabilities for most parts and gather/report statistical process capabilities for critical and trouble parts relating to NPI for Component Manufacturing.
• Manage the stabilization of NPI transitions: evaluate in-process quality data and drive corrective action as required to maximize product manufacturability and mitigate business risks.
• Be the primary point of contact for NPI quality issues, for field follow reported issues, and for in-process issues representing the Component Manufacturing Team.
• Stay abreast of new technologies to provide input to design to drive improvement in cost and quality.
• Support Prototype Builds: team member representing Component Manufacturing for the NPI-project for required design measures
• Process Verification: team member
• Error and Mistake Proofing: managing in collaboration with tooling and weld engineers
• Manufacturing OK to Produce Criteria: responsible for the definition, verification, initiation of countermeasures if required, tracking of measure implementation, escalation if required
• Manufacturing Cost Summary: responsible for quality relevant aspects
• Gage and Test Equipment Evaluation: contributes, is informed, assures that DMFEA results are integrated and respected

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.  Preferred experience as a new product introduction team leader or team member, preferably in the same or similar industry.
   

Requirements:

• Must be able to read and understand drawings/blueprints, and understand how to apply GD&T
• Experience/knowledge in the fabrication, welding, and paint preferred
• Familiar with materials used in metal fabrication
• Knowledge and understanding of welding processes
• Familiar with product engineering systems
• Experience with virtual builds, simulation, product validation, and agriculture background is a plus
• Familiar in concepts of tooling design as it relates to fabrication and welding processes

AGCO is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of agricultural engineering with a portfolio of exciting international brands which deliver solutions to farmers in 140 countries through a full line offer from tractors and combine harvesters to protein production systems and smart farming software solutions – to an environment where the future is happening now. Join us as we bring agriculture into the future.