Stamping Process Engineer
We are a start-up manufacturer focused on building a frenetic culture with speed, collaboration and sustainability in mind. We are looking for founding members of our team. We seek a highly motivated Manufacturing Engineer - Stamping Specialist for a position in our Advanced Manufacturing Engineering group.
The Advanced Manufacturing Engineering group is responsible for developing and implementing the processes, equipment and tooling used to turn our Engineers' ideas into reality. For our Stamping team, we are not looking to revolutionize the stamping process. Instead we seek to rapidly develop and implement a stamping team and process that is capable of delivering first in class part quality, system reliability and cost efficiency.
Our Stampings Team will be core to the success of our mission; providing the bedrocks of our vehicles and our customer experience. They will provide direct feedback to the vehicle engineering team, as well as develop the plant tooling and equipment strategy. As a result they will have direct responsibility for the quality level of the vehicle.
Role Responsibilities
· Deliver high quality stamping dies and processes that meet the production, part quality and cost goals of the program.
· Support Vehicle Engineers through part and assembly DFM studies
· Provide technical direction on tool & equipment design & build
· Manages all aspects of tool development for in-house stamping operations, including
o Project planning
o Technical specifications for RFQ generation
o Supplied Services performance
o Tool design analysis and approval/buy-off
o Trials and tuning at the tool shop and on the homeline
o Reporting to company stakeholders on progress and issues
o Issue resolution
· Resolve complex part formability issues using die compensation strategies in order to achieve Styling, quality and production goals.
· Data-focused troubleshooting of quality issue.
· Lead Tooling design and quality standards creation
· Provide project related direction to technicians and stamping plant personnel