Safran Electrical Components Canada (SECC) is one of six facilities within the Safran Electrical Components division. The Safran Electrical Components division includes 1300 employees across North America and Europe. With approximately 40 employees operating on a single day shift, SECC is the division's smallest site. Despite the company name, the facility primarily manufactures fluid-conveyance products, including hose assemblies, tube assemblies, welded assemblies, manifolds, and other related components.
The manufacturing engineering is responsible for:
- Supporting manufacturing assembly and fabrication to troubleshoot assembly and fabrication issues
- Supporting quality non-conformances and root cause analysis
- Overseeing the technical development for the manufacturing of products through their lifecycle
- Providing support to leads and operators in production and quality
- Planning, structuring and implementing new manufacturing programs
- Providing engineering quotes for new business
- Industrializing new products and deploying new manufacturing processes and procedures
- Ensuring products, tools and equipment are deployed and operate correctly and safely
- Improving process efficiency, line balancing, and capacity planning
- Improving plant layout & material flow, and work cell layouts
- Improving ergonomics & safety
Main Function Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on support for maintaining and troubleshooting tools and equipment
- Provide daily technical and hands-on support for production
- Review and disposition quality non-conformances
Document Control
- Maintain, control and log customer drawings and documents
- Setup new products and BoMs in ERP and MRP software applications
Design Support & Process Development
- Review technical drawings, prepare BoMs and perform cost analysis
- Create 3D CAD models and manufacturing drawings
- Develop and prepare sketches and write technical reports
- Create and implement engineering changes (ECRs, ECOs and ECNs)
- Create and maintain manufacturing processes, plans, work instructions, and procedures
Industrialization
- Support production and QA with new product deployment
- Plan and implement new production procedures, work instructions, processes and train operators
- Design and create manufacturing work cells, fixtures, jigs, and tools
- Research, select, deploy and qualify new tools and equipment
Plant and Production Line Planning
- Improve line balancing and capacity planning
- Support building layout improvements and maintenance
Other
- Solve complex problems with manufacturing departments, sub-contractors, suppliers and customers
- Support product material compliance (REACH, RoHs, and TSCA)
- Participate and lead continuous improvement projects
- Other tasks assigned by the Engineering Manager