Leader, Engineering

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical support in wind blade manufacturing, supporting TPI’s diverse factory and customer portfolio.
• Interface with program management, GTPM, quality, engineering and production organizations to advise/resolve/revise program requirements issues and ambiguities in the new product introduction phase, capturing DFM, PFMEA and exceptions.
• Support new product introduction as part of a multidisciplined team as a technical expert in design and manufacturing assessment.
• Drive process improvement and best practices to reduce risk and increase profitability in TPI operations.
• Support technical initiatives with the assistance of a distributed team to achieve critical technical goals.
• Mentorship and technical development of TPI’s engineering resources.
• Support the creation of global standards, documentation, and processes to drive consistency in operations, to ensure safety, improve quality and reduce risk.
• Support areas of data integrity and data analytics to drive product conformance, performance trends and capability to identify areas of action/improvement.
• Provide technical support for TPI’s local/site-based engineering teams.
• Share knowledge and experience in area of wind blade manufacturing.
• Support activities at sites, reviewing processes, guiding decisions and supporting development of composites knowledge.
• Be a resource to ensure decisions are made with necessary knowledge and support.
• Support TPI’s internal audit function.
• Ensure adherence to all safety, quality and customer requirements during internal reviews of TPI’s manufacturing facilities.
• Develop facility and process risk assessments outlining areas of improvement and driving changes to support TPI’s core values of Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost (SQDC).
• Support new material evaluation, approval, and introduction to manufacturing sites.
• Support and advise Customer specified design trials and technical contact.
• Support the technical aspects of all manufacturing launches of new/revised products or requirements.
• Support continuous improvement including process, material, equipment, and documentation.
• Support directly and through team the product transfers from one site to another.
• Support Root Cause Corrective Action programs.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Engineering required.
• Minimum 7 years related composites experience required with minimum of 5 years wind blade composite experience in a lead engineering role.
• Engineering drawing literacy and tolerance appreciation.
• Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing techniques.
• CAD/CAM proficiency is a plus.
• Computer proficiency.
• Ability to set and communicate priorities, create a clear vision of goals.
• Leadership skills.
• Quality oriented and high attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Verbal and written fluency in English.
• Experience working with high performance teams.
• Ability to maintain safe work environment.
• Ability to perform problem analysis and problem resolution (critical thinking).
• Hands-on practical abilities.

Core Competencies

• Composite Materials
• Composite Processing (Molding)
• Composite Processing (Finishing)
• Defect assessment and repair processes
• RCCA and field issue investigation/evaluation
• Technical documentation and content
• NPI/DFM/PFMEA
• Change order evaluation
• Mechanical/Composites design
• Secondary competencies: GD&T tolerancing, Quality systems, Technical authorship, Data analytics