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BorgWarner

Global automotive powertrain and electrification provider

Area Manager

Manufacturing & Production OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeDixon, IL, USA$92.8k - $127.6k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in an engineering or related technical field from a four-year college or university is required; candidates should be working toward an advanced degree.
  • Three to five years of engineering experience is required.
  • A track record of successfully managing or facilitating product launches, programs, or equivalent work is required.
  • Candidates must be available to travel with minimal notification in urgent situations.
  • Strong supervisory skills and training are required.
  • Strong and versatile manufacturing process and quality assurance knowledge, skills, and abilities are required.
  • Candidates must be skilled in design of experiments, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, failure mode and effects analysis, statistical process control, time and motion analysis, economics and cost analysis, and value analysis.
  • Candidates must be skilled as a manufacturing engineer in a core functional area such as machining, electromechanical assembly, electrical engineering, or molding.
  • A strong understanding of manufacturing, including automation, and quality systems is required.
  • A working understanding of the budgeting process is required.
  • Successful project launch experience is required.
  • Strong project management, communication, organizational, and presentation skills are required.
  • Strong problem-solving skills are required.
  • Good team and people-management skills, including team-building, motivation techniques, and effective supervisory concepts and practices, are required.
  • Good knowledge of effective health, safety, and ergonomic concepts and practices is required.
  • Good knowledge of the automotive industry and its customers is required.
  • Good knowledge of visual factory concepts is required.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, plan, and direct engineering and manufacturing activities for a product line.
  • Direct and oversee quality and manufacturing engineering technical support to manufacturing areas to meet or exceed customer expectations.
  • Plan, schedule, facilitate, and supervise manufacturing team activities to attain quality, safety, cost-efficiency, and on-time delivery goals.
  • Identify and implement improvements jointly with manufacturing quality engineers to reduce product cost annually, improve quality, and maximize customer satisfaction.
  • Ensure the safety, quality, capability, and utilization of manufacturing and processing equipment and processes.
  • Research and implement best-practice manufacturing and processing methods and processes.
  • Assist in developing and implementing the manufacturing and quality engineering strategic plan.
  • Facilitate new product introductions and current product modifications.
  • Review and quote processing and production equipment and tools.
  • Ensure effective documentation and control systems are developed, used, and maintained.
  • Assist the product line manager in recommending, justifying, and administering the capital plan.
  • Close customer 8D reports.
  • Determine, justify, and coordinate the purchase and implementation of new equipment and processes jointly with manufacturing teams, and track tooling and accounts receivable expenditure.
  • Review and make dispositions on nonconforming materials.
  • Prepare and deliver presentations to customers, employees, and management at all levels.
  • Lead and champion teamwork to achieve goals, with particular emphasis on production teams and AQP Steering Committee activities.
  • Provide technical leadership, training, and support to manufacturing teams and peers.
  • Lead, motivate, and develop employees; supervise employees and own hiring, development, performance management, and succession planning processes.
  • Facilitate open and effective communications.
  • Continually improve health, safety, and environmental performance.
  • Manage day-to-day production inventory.
  • Facilitate throughput improvement processes.
  • Identify and implement scrap reduction plans.
  • Facilitate process ownership in areas where production personnel control processes using statistical process control, check sheets, and related methods.
  • Promote and support teamwork in achieving goals, with particular emphasis on DCP and AQP activities.
  • Promote and support workforce diversity.
  • Maintain a work environment where third-party intervention is not required or desired.
  • Develop specific work procedures to minimize risks.
  • Train employees on procedures and enforce their use.
  • Facilitate workplace inspections and close findings.
  • Facilitate employee involvement in developing, implementing, and revising safety and health procedures.
  • Manage performance toward assigned site safety and health program objectives.
  • Conduct timely incident investigations and correct root causes.
  • Participate in and attend safety meetings and training.
  • Track safety issues through closure.

About the Company

BorgWarner

Global automotive powertrain and electrification provider

BorgWarner makes powertrain technology for vehicles, covering both traditional internal-combustion and electrified propulsion. Its products include automatic transmissions that shift gear ratios and diesel cold-start systems, as well as electrification components gained through acquisitions like Delphi Technologies. The company stands out through its long-time expertise and a broad, globally integrated portfolio that combines legacy know-how with modern electric propulsion capabilities. Its goal is to be a leading global provider of powertrain solutions across traditional and electrified drivetrains, helping the automotive industry deliver more efficient and lower-emission propulsion.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Auburn Hills, MI
Founded
1928

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