Ballard Power Systems, Inc. is a global leader in fuel cell technology, providing clean energy fuel cell products that enable optimized power systems for a range of applications. Ballard is an international public company traded on both the NASDAQ and TSX.
Ballard’s Advanced Manufacturing engineering team is globally expanding its MEA, stack, and module production facilities. To rapidly achieve this expansion the team is looking for a Principal Manufacturing Engineer in our Burnaby facility to drive globalization.
As Ballard adds to its global production footprint it requires people with strong technical and communication skillsets. Using these skills accurately transfer product and equipment requirements from our internal technical team to our selected equipment suppliers. Each production cell must deliver against the stringent product requirements and the project timeline deliverables.
The successful candidate should have a track record working with suppliers to procure new equipment for production facilities, optimizing production processes, an ability to apply knowledge from lean six sigma methodology to find innovative equipment solutions.
The candidate will require a keen eye for spotting waste early in equipment design phases and ability to rapidly complete risk assessments cascading across several equipment cells. The candidate should also have excellent communication skills and experience dealing with Operation departments and Design department stakeholders to ensure the equipment will achieve the product and production requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Managing projects cashflow spend against budget
- Identify new next generation technologies for high volume production
- Writing proposals and reports to justify capital expenditure for department budgets
- Procurement of new bespoke capital equipment
- Project tracking equipment milestones
- Lead risk analysis studies on the new production line equipment
- Demonstrated ability to translate product requirements into equipment requirements/specifications
- Ability to write detail technical reports and equipment specification for equipment trials and procurement
- Interface with product development and tooling designers to improve process capability and support the standardization of equipment and tooling measurement.
- Review product and equipment assembly drawings, test specifications, and provide feedback to design teams and equipment suppliers.
- Identify design improvements for DFMA and communicate effectively back to design teams.
- Analyze and communicate technical information, including process capability, yield, and cycle time analysis etc. to cross functional management team on a regular basis.
- Execute on parallel equipment projects and ability to manage project priorities
- Ability to take complex technical details distill to understandable content and present to project stakeholders
- Ensure cost efficiency and conformance with regulatory standards
- Use lean six sigma tools such as process flow maps, 5 Why analysis, Design of Experiment, measurement system analysis, capability studies, and statistical process control charts to ensure processes are optimized
- Lead the purchase and procurement of new capital equipment
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent
- Professional Engineering designation (or eligibility) is an asset
- Demonstrated capability in project or program management
- Experience in assessing product requirements and how they translate to manufacturing equipment costs and capability is an asset
- Minimum 10+ years of manufacturing or process/product development experience
- Hands on approach with machinery commissioning is essential
- Strong observation and analytical skills to troubleshoot process and quality-related issues
- Experience with engineering practices such as Lean Six Sigma, MSA, GR&R, Value Stream Mapping, D/P FMEA, Design of Experiments, SPC, noise factor analysis, Kaizen, 5S, and others are an asset.
- Knowledge of technical documentation related to manufacturing, including use of control plan, D/P FMEA, process flow diagram, SOP, setup checklists, and equipment requirements
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, supported by strong data analysis skill (using Excel or other statistical software, such as Minitab)
- Experience working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment