Production Support Engineer

Adient Aerospace is a joint venture between Adient and the Boeing Company. Boeing brings a deep knowledge of Aerospace, and Adient is a world leader in automotive seating. At Adient Aerospace, it is our mission to deliver innovative seating design through precise operational excellence, resulting in a superior customer experience. We bring the right pieces together, in precisely the right way, at precisely the right time.

Adient Aerospace is looking for a Production Support Engineer to join our team on site in Huntington Beach, California. We are looking for highly proficient individuals who are collaborative, value diversity, enjoy working as a team, and share our passion to succeed. We invest in our employees with opportunities for professional development and we offer competitive benefits.

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JOB SUMMARY

The Production Support Engineer is the critical link between the manufacturing teams, physical product, and the wider Engineering organization, with direct responsibility for assuring translation of identified problems to engineered solutions. Using a broad foundation of engineering knowhow and practical ability, the Production Support Engineer is required to clearly define reported issues, carry out engineering investigations, and stipulate right-sized solutions to ensure timely closure of identified problems. Problem solving is at the core of this role, and associated communication with multi-disciplinary teams is a key requirement.

SUMMARY OF JOB DUTIES - Essential Functions (Other duties and projects may be assigned or requested.)

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• Serve as the point of contact for the engineering team for assigned internal customers, programs, and products.
• Manage problem reports and structure internal communication with daily cadence for assigned programs and products.
• Provide daily updates on status of problem resolution associated with products, programs, or sub-tasks.
• Working directly with Project Engineers, the Production Support Engineer will feedback to the appropriate functions within the wider Engineering organization through use of problem report data, associated analysis, and concise communication to ensure transfer of lessons learned, directly supporting continuous product improvement.
• Utilize known and prescribed analysis and problem-solving methodology to expedite problem resolution against tight timelines.
• Use Engineering knowledge to translate, define, and analyze problems into technical language to be applied through change management.
• Execute defined changes by applying design, modelling, and drafting skills to assigned change tasks from Project Engineers.
• Manage time and priorities to ensure timely resolution of defined issues to meet internal and external demand.
• Communicate problem resolution verbally and in writing/presentations as appropriate to ensure broad understanding of outputs.
• Use product feedback from internal and external sources to support optimization of designs for manufacture and assembly.
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