Job Details
Job Title: Consultant - Industrial Engineer (Automotive)
Position Type: Independent Consultant (1099 or LLC)
Locations: Continental United States
Travel Required: 85-100%
Industry: Automotive
Compensation/Benefits:
- Hourly Wage When on Assignment
- Travel Days comped at 50% Hourly Rate
- Over-Time: 1.5x After 40 hrs/wk
- Double-Time: On Holidays/Sundays
- $65 Per Diam Pay
- Travel Expense Reimbursement
- Wages and Expenses Paid Monthly
- Intellectually stimulating engagements, driving P&L results for OEMs and T1s throughout the USA
Well-Established:
- First project deployed in 2001
- Over 1,000 Completed Projects
- 250+ Clients
- Global Footprint: Servicing 28 countries
Client Testimonials:
- Asst. President of Automotive Tier 1 Multinational: Ambe has been great to work with responding quickly to our requests with experienced personnel who delivered on the objectives we needed to accomplish
- CEO of Automotive Tier 1 Multinational: I consider Ambe Engineering to be an extension of my organization. The team is always nimble to the needs of my company and provides expertise to create solutions to our business in a variety of ways
- Manager of Tier 1 Automotive Manufacturer: Thank you Ambe for your support with getting our supplier under control it s greatly appreciated and your flexibility to adjust to issues and availability was key
- Supplier Quality Director of Automotive OEM: Impressive support network that is evolving fast, has helped us in various challenging situations with our supply chain. Agile leadership offering tailored solutions are key competence for this business, where Ambe has excelled.
Summary:
Our consultants are industry experts, providing tactical operational wins to OEMs and T1 Suppliers via extensive industry knowledge, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, and a passion for making hands-on changes to warehouse and production floors rapidly.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities:
- Analyze and assess manufacturing processes at company workstations - recommending essential process improvements with lean practices to optimize workflow and increase overall efficiency - Uptime, Performance and Quality.
- Create specifications for various components and assembly steps, determining production benchmarks, and optimizing manufacturing efficiency, reliability through input.
- Operate fully as independent technology suppliers providing the detailed specifications for plant and equipment.
- Run sample requests provided by R&D to investigate, analyze, and develop innovative product solutions.
- Develop, support, and improve workstation design and layout to positively impact ergonomics, material flow and productivity.
- Performs root cause analysis and conduct brainstorming sessions with responsible teams; investigate the process, machine, or equipment; implements counter measures/corrective and preventive actions and training, to any internal or external, quality and safety concerns.
- Auditing manufacturing cells/lines on a weekly basis to ensure all production processes follow standard operating procedure laid out through Layered Process Audit.
- Initiate and implement Process Change Requests (PCRs) to improve manufacturability and quality performance.
- Participating in weekly safety audits to assess new or unidentified safety concerns and risks.
- Participate in safety incident investigations as required.
- Responsible for implementing all process and equipment with state-of-the-art technologies to ensure all products are manufactured and assembled with highest quality to meet customer demands.
- Providing weekly project status updates to management, identifying potential risks and opportunities.
- Assists maintenance and operations team with troubleshooting process and equipment related issues.
- Mentor and guide less experienced team members in technical excellence, procedures, and best practices.
- Alignment with cross-functional project team.
- Initiating and implementing process improvements through innovative creative ideas.
- Develops, maintains, and reviews concepts with suppliers and customers.
- Monitors implementation of corrective action plans
- Coordinates the efforts of cross-functional groups and across shifts to resolve bottlenecks, parts shortages, machine maintenance, manpower issues and production capacity.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of Manufacturing Industrial Engineering in Automotive, Aerospace, or other related industries.
- Bachelor s degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations, or other related fields.
- CAD experience required.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills and ability to communicate effectively with client customers at all organizational levels.
- Strong oral and written communication and documentation skills, including presentation skills (MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, etc.)
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.
- Experience leading small teams or delivering projects or programs.
- Experience prioritizing tasks and managing assignments in a collaborative team environment.
- Previous Consulting Experience Preferred