Manufacturing Engineer

Tenneco is one of the world’s leading designer, manufacturers and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers, with approximately 78.000 team members working at more than 300 sites worldwide. Through our four business groups, Motorparts, Ride Performance, Clean Air and Powertrain, Tenneco is driving advancements in global mobility by delivering technology solutions for diversified global markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway, industrial, motorsport and the aftermarket.

We are looking for a Manufacturing Engineer who will be responsible for identifying, designing, developing, and demonstrating new technology that improves manufacturing processes and supports specific manufacturing initiatives identified by the business units or corporate R&D programs.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for identifying, designing, developing, and demonstrating new technology that improves manufacturing processes.
• Supports specific manufacturing initiatives identified by the business units or corporate R&D programs.

Specific Duties

• Promotes continuous improvement in environmental and safety issues by ensuring that equipment is designed, modified, or repaired to maintain and improve safety and environmental performance.
• Reacts immediately to safety issues as they arise.
• Follows all environmental and safety policies and procedures.
• Provides project leadership on continuous improvement ideas:
  • Equipment and equipment design
  • Process simplification and improvement
  • Project Coordination between manufacturing, technical, support and    financial groups.
  • Preventative and Predictive maintenance
  • Lead role on quality for control plans & PMEA’s
  • Major role in quality CAR team’s implementation of corrective actions
• Ensure that equipment can produce parts to specification.
• Ensure that equipment produces parts efficiently.
• Provides input to Capital and Expense Project Plans and track spending.
• Writes and submits Capital and Expense Projects, including analysis for justification.
• Provides training and work instructions on new equipment and process changes.
• Coordinates ECAP's and Process and Routing Changes.
• Keeps updated on the latest engineering techniques that apply to processes used and communicates information to others.
• Develop cost reduction ideas.
• Provides technical support for Plant Safety activities including ergonomics at the workstations.
• Performs any other duties so assigned.
• Provides support as requested by Supervisor.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Job is on site at plant.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in mechanical/electrical engineering or related field.

Experience

• 5 years of experience desired in a manufacturing/process development environment.
• Experience desired with machine vision system development and integration.
• Technical knowledge desired of PLC signal processing and hands-on experience with transducers, signal conditioning & data acquisition.
• Knowledge & experience desired of N.I. LabView & IMAQ development software.
• Able to work with minimum supervision, well organized, willing to take initiative & keep abreast of rapidly changing advances in technology.
• Strong technical writing and communication skills required.  

We are committed to the safety and health of our employees. We adhere to social distancing recommendations and other protocols, ensuring a safe work environment for all.