Manufacturing Station Designer

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Role: Manufacturing Station Designer

Work Location: Toledo, OH Onsite

Contract

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Assembly Station Designer role focuses on engineering and optimizing General Assembly workstations through a holistic approach, ensuring seamless integration of operators, materials, tooling, torque tools, and ICT interfaces. The ideal candidate will bring strong problem-solving skills, proven project management ability, and experience driving cross-functional collaboration to support efficient and high-quality production operations.

- Engineer and optimize workstations with a focus on operators, material flow, tooling, torque tools, and ICT interfaces

- Design detailed CAD layouts for production stations, ensuring compliance with process requirements, tooling needs, material flow, ergonomics, and safety standards

- Incorporate logistics and material display considerations into workstation design.

- Assess operator footprint and integrate feedback from performance systems to optimize workstation layouts

- Define scopes of work for new assembly layouts, optimizing vehicle assembly sequences and selecting cost-effective tooling to improve efficiency

- Support launch activities, including scroll development and workstation optimization.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address design issues and ensure smooth implementation.

- Perform workstation quality audits to ensure readiness and compliance.

- Manage and document workstation changes, including updates after scroll freeze.

- Apply strong project management skills to deliver successful workstation solutions on time.

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering Technology or Associate's degree in Industrial Engineering or similar.

- minimum 5 years experience in an automotive manufacturing environment

- minimum 3 years experience in workstation / workcell design

- experienced in 2D design using AutoCAD

- Solid understanding of ergonomics, material flow, and operator interface requirements.

- Strong documentation, change management, and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent collaboration, communication, and stakeholder engagement abilities.

- Proven project management experience in a production or launch environment.