Ofp Assembly Manufacturing Engineer

John Deere John Deere · Industrial · Moline, IL +1 · Factory Engineering (CA)

Manufacturing Engineer role at John Deere focused on supporting assembly operations, ensuring product quality and on-time delivery, and implementing continuous improvement projects for safety, quality, delivery, and efficiency. Requires experience in a UAW environment, knowledge of assembly tooling, and project management skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support Seeding Moline’s FPV and heavy repair operations helping to ensure final product quality and on time delivery for our customers
  2. Support daily operations by responding to tactical safety, quality, and efficiency issues while supporting/leading performance improvements for the business unit team
  3. Support uptime of tools, fixtures, and equipment
  4. Support/lead engineering projects to improve safety, quality, and efficiency through torque tooling improvements, capital investment projects, JDAAT expansion/deployment
  5. Identify opportunities & implement continuous improvement projects in support of achieving CI200 target goals for safety, quality, delivery, and efficiency

Skills

Required

  • 1+ year of experience supporting production/factory floor in a UAW environment
  • Working knowledge of basic assembly tooling and equipment
  • Ability to work flexible hours, including overtime (daily and weekends, as needed)
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills with the ability to communicate cross-functionally with both salary and wage workforce
  • Demonstrated ability to initiate and complete multiple, concurrent projects

Nice to have

  • Experience with tooling improvement projects
  • JDAAT Admin/authoring experience
  • Knowledge and experience applying principles of performance-based pay plans (EX: CIPP)
  • MPPlanner/WPlanner knowledge and experience
  • Experience with Dynamic Line Balancing Tool (DLBT)
  • SAP experience
  • Experience learning and applying technology, systems, data mining and analysis tools to drive business improvements