Description:
Advance the automotive market and advance your career at Gentex! Join a collaborative culture devoted to innovation, cooperation, and continuous improvement. Your ideas are not just heard, they are celebrated! Explore Gentex today!
Purpose Of Position
- Monitors and adjusts equipment controls as needed.
- Ensures optimal performance of product manufacturing equipment and controls.
Primary Responsibilities
- Eliminate equipment downtime by tracking problems to their root cause and correcting them.
- Specify and/or develop software to complement new equipment.
- Maintain records of all program changes, assembly drawings and product specifications.
- Make software modifications as needed to dispensing and glass cutting equipment.
- Adapt new products to the existing manufacturing processes.
- Write and modify programs for dispensing and glass cutting equipment.
Secondary Responsibilities
- Support engineering staff in the development of new processes for manufacturing.
- Help determine training needed for the technicians.
- Provide input as needed when equipment is purchased or upgraded.
- Construct test fixtures and complete equipment upgrades as needed.
- Occasionally work with outside vendors to procure new equipment and/or software to improve the production process.
- Assist in the development and implementation of new products into mass production.
- Complying with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.
- Maintaining high level of honesty, integrity and confidentiality with respect to company matters.
Position Demands
- 2 – 4 year technical degree preferred, or equivalent experience
- Management Ability – Evidence of superior people skills.
- Proven leadership and motivational skills
- Good project management skills
- Ability to communicate difficult issues with others.
- Ability to learn Auto-Cad, Auto-Cad Electrical, Solidworks and various programming software environments.
- Ability to learn and troubleshoot Programmable Logic Controller programs.
- Must be available to work overtime as needed.
- Good troubleshooting skills and mechanical inclination.
- 1 to 2 years related experience preferred.
- Ability to stand and maneuver in or around equipment.
- Good PC skills required.
- Intense personal commitment to continuous improvement.