Assembly Me

John Deere John Deere · Industrial · Davenport, IA +1 · Factory Engineering (CA)

This role is for an Assembly Manufacturing Engineer at John Deere, focusing on improving safety, quality, delivery, and cost in assembly operations. Responsibilities include implementing continuous improvement projects, managing capital projects, establishing manufacturing processes, and providing support for current operations. The role requires experience in engineering areas like industrial or manufacturing, understanding of production environments, and shop floor documentation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with cross-functional teams to identify and implement continuous improvement projects for safety, quality, delivery, and cost
  2. Lead and manage small scope capital projects
  3. Establish and maintain layouts, labor standards, methods and sequence of events for assembly operations
  4. Analyze, develop, and implement new manufacturing processes and technologies
  5. Provide support and troubleshooting for current assembly operations

Skills

Required

  • Good communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively with salaried and wage personnel in a team environment
  • A self-starter with the ability to execute a variety of tasks
  • Experience in one of more related engineering areas: industrial, reliability, design, manufacturing, or quality
  • Understanding of manufacturing processes and working in a production environment
  • Experience with shop floor documentation (Sequence of Events, Labor Standards, and Operator Methods Sheets)
  • Ability to work off shifts and weekends if needed
  • Experience with engineering tools, systems and databases
  • Experience with line and process design, material presentation, cycles of imbalance and visual management tools

Nice to have

  • Experience with MPPlanner for SOE and OMS development
  • Experience working with incentive pay systems, especially gainsharing programs such as CIPP (Continuous Improvement Pay Plan)
  • Experience working in a union environment
  • Experience with JDAAT MES systems , machine diagnostics
  • Experience with torque tooling
  • Experience with AutoCAD and Creo View software