Project Engineer

About the Company

Vitro Automotive Glass produces advanced glass products for the world’s most well-known automotive manufacturers. We work collaboratively with our customers to ensure that our glass provides the safety, comfort, and efficiency required for today’s modern vehicles. Vitro Automotive Glass operates glass manufacturing plants, fabrication facilities, and distribution centers worldwide that are solely focused on the production of automotive glass. This scale allows us to provide the quality and technology required for large volume OEM production, while bringing that same attention to detail and quality to our automotive replacement glass (ARG) operations. As the needs of the automotive industry rapidly evolve, Vitro stays ahead of the curve to help automakers, distributors, and installers meet the ever-changing standards for safety, efficiency, and sustainability. We are committed to working collaboratively to deliver whatever comes next.

About the Role

This position will coordinate the successful design, fabrication, startup, and handover to manufacturing of new value-add equipment at multiple US Value Add locations. The role involves maintaining positive relationships with Program Management, Product and Plant Engineering, equipment vendors, and OEM customers. Primary responsibilities include equipment scope definition, cost estimating, vendor management, and budget and timeline management, as well as feasibility assessments for future products.

The incumbent will provide technical and engineering support to both Vitro and Tier 2 value-added assembly locations to ensure reliability and the optimum safe use of facilities, equipment, and resources to meet customer requirements and plant objectives. This includes ensuring appropriate facilities and equipment are available and ready for product fabrication based on customer specifications and drawings, achieved by collaborating with both customer and vendor representatives.

Responsibilities

• Successfully launch and handover value-add equipment to manufacturing plants, meeting OEM customer requirements.
• Provide value-add process equipment that produces parts within customer specifications, achieving quoted cycle time, yield, and uptime.
• Complete PFMEAs, Control Plans, and Process Flow Diagrams for value-add processes to address potential quality issues and include risk reduction plans.
• Provide accurate and timely cost estimates.
• Develop equipment standards for value-add processes across the business and share best practices.
• Develop maintenance recommendations for new or modified equipment.
• Manage equipment vendors to ensure key timing and budget milestones are met over the course of a capital project.
• Interface directly with Program Management, Product Engineering, Process Engineering, and OEM customers to ensure equipment is designed to meet all operational and customer specifications.
• Provide technical support on value-added customer spills to minimize negative effects on the customer.

Requirements

• Ability to assume responsibility for medium to large-sized capital projects, including scope development, funding approval, equipment design, and vendor management, as well as limited supervision of project personnel.
• Self-directed with proven experience driving changes needed to meet project goals.
• Ability to provide hands-on technical support for assigned projects.
• Knowledge of human relations skills and the ability to work with all levels in the organization, as well as vendors and customers.
• Effective oral and written communication and presentation skills using Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Project).

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AutoCAD or other design software and mechanical design principles.
• Experience with robotic cells using vision systems.
• Ability to interpret customer specifications and GD&T drawings.
• Experience in the automotive industry and with automotive glass.