Engineering Director
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Engineering Director
Location: Southfield MI. Up to 15 international travel to Mexico required.
Employee Type: RegularFull time
About Fujikura Automotive Services Inc.:
Fujikura Automotive Services Inc. (FAS) is headquartered at 70 NE Interstate 410 Loop Suite 700 San Antonio Texas 78216 with offices in Farmington Hills Michigan and Marysville Ohio. FAS is the wholly owned subsidiary of Fujikura Limited with corporate headquarters in Tokyo Japan. Fujikura Limited provides highly specialized manufacturing services within the automotive electronics power generation and electronics industries. In the automation industry Fujikura Limited manufactures automotive components and electrical distribution systems for multiple automobiles makes and models which are designed tested and assembled in the United States. The Fujikura Family of companies has 140 locations worldwide with U.S. offices supporting U.S. automobile manufacturers in designing and testing wire harness and electrical systems.
Heres what you will do:
- Responsible for overall direction coordination management and evaluation of the quoting and engineering departments at various locations.
- Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with AFL (America Fujikura Ltd. policies and applicable laws and procedures.
- Responsible for overseeing interviewing hiring and training of employees in the department.
- Manage resources to revenue to meet customers expectations and maximize not only engineering but company profitability.
- Ensure the engineering department delivers a specification product and drawings that meets the required standards provides adequate installation instruction and orders material with an appropriate interval to allow operations to meet requested complete date.
- Ensure estimating/quoting group deliver quotes and contract pricing that wins work and meets the target GP levels.
- Establish and ensure compliance of company policies and standards/best practices for the engineering department.
- Coordinate with Engineering and Estimating/Quoting Managers to direct work and develop talents within the department.
- Work with marketing to develop and manage customer relationships and hold meetings/conferences with both internal and external customers.
- Assist with establishment and compliance of TL9000 standards.
- Responsible for personal development and leadership of key initiatives to keep engineering informed and an industry leader in industry standards on time performance and group morale.
- Consults with clients vendors or other individuals as needed to ensure job schedule is maintained.
- Utilizes various software programs spreadsheets reports and databases as required to manage workgroup to ensure maximum profitability and positive results for AFL.
- Up to 15 international travel to Mexico required.
Who you are:
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Automotive Engineering Manufacturing Engineering or a closely related field.
- Ten 10 years of experience as an Engineering Manager Design Release Engineer or a closely related position in the automotive manufacturing industry.
- The ten 10 years of experience must have included the following: five 5 years of wire harness engineering; two 2 years of use of software tools such as NX Catia Capital Harness AutoCAD SolidWorks schematic capture; one 1 year of product lifecycle management and bills of material management; and two 2 years of use of quality management systems such as ISO 9001 IATF 16949 or other system within the automotive manufacturing industry.
- Up to 15 international travel to Mexico required.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
