Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Location(s): Franklin, TN

Job Schedule: Full-time

Education Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree

Sponsorship: No

Come Drive Innovation with Us. We are currently looking for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in Franklin, TN. The Role provides engineering support to assigned areas in manufacturing, maintenance, and facility operations. Recommends, plans, coordinates, documents, and implements plant and process control systems on a company wide basis. Develop specifications for new models and modifications to existing models to improve production uptime in assigned areas. Provides guidance and leadership to lower-level engineers. Coordinates with contractors in assigned areas to provide engineering support, technical assistance, and training. Communicates with suppliers to provide guidelines, specifications, and engineering support to ensure Nissan goals of quality, cost, and delivery.

The responsibilities listed are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties for this role. Additional tasks may be assigned, as needed, to support business objectives.

• Provides specification, design, and installation support for manufacturing and non-manufacturing, production control, and facility operations; ensures all equipment, facility systems, and utilities in assigned areas are in an acceptable state of operation and repair.
• Monitors and records process system and equipment changes; updates and maintains electrical, schematic, and mechanical drawings for new and modified equipment in assigned areas; develops and implements safety procedures for equipment in assigned areas.
• Provides system problem solving; ensures continuous reliability and uptime improvement, accuracy and ease of use enhancements, analysis of trends and symptoms, and identification of missing or misleading information in assigned areas.
• Assists with new project development and resource and budget planning within assigned areas; facilitates project folder preparation, project management, and model and capacity studies with budget development.
• Communicates with suppliers concerning performance of their products, improvement, and potential cost savings; works with suppliers to investigate new technologies for improved manufacturing methods and higher quality products, and to resolve problems and concerns.
• Trains and supports contract staff in assigned areas; provides emergency engineering response to daily manufacturing support problems; provides system maintenance and management support by monitoring system performance conducting operating system tuning and system troubleshooting; updates and modifies the preventative maintenance program.
• As necessary, other related duties of which the above are representative.

• A four-year degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, or Engineering Technology required
• Experience: Six to ten years of related experience at a professional level.
  Supervisory Experience: One to two years in a work leader role coordinating the work of other employees or contractors. This includes training new employees, assigning work, and checking the timeliness and quality of work. May have provided input into performance reviews. Most time in work leader role would have been spent performing work similar to that performed by the people whose activities the position coordinates.
• Job Knowledge and Skill: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to lead and provide direction. Knowledge of Nissan corporate policies, Nissan engineering standards, ISO14000, federal, state, and local laws relating to safety, electric, and building codes. Ability to develop conceptual level designs and cost estimates for future model studies. Knowledge of HVAC control systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical, welding, and mechanical fields. Must have above average troubleshooting and computer skills, and be capable of working without close supervision.
• Computer Skills: Advanced knowledge of word processor, spreadsheet, other PC applications, or mainframe applications to create specialized applications or products of a highly technical nature.
• Travel requirements: occasional travel

People are our most valuable assets, and diversity and inclusion are the key to maximizing the power of each individual member of our team.  When everyone belongs, the power of NISSAN is undeniable.  Our Corporate Diversity Initiative aims to improve business results by ensuring that our workplace and core businesses meet the unique needs of our employees and customer base.

Nissan is committed to creating a culture where everyone belongs and employees, customers, and partners feel respected, valued, and heard.  We have over 10 Business Synergy Teams (BSTs) across the U.S. and Canada that connect employees – with shared characteristics or interests – build allies, and foster a company culture where all employees feel supported and included.

Nissan also values inclusion in all areas of our business as we strive to mirror the diversity of our customer base and the communities where we do business. We are committed to procuring innovative goods and services, retailing our products and communicating from a diverse perspective which will help us continue to offer our customers competitively designed, market-driven products.

Join us as we carry our commitment to diversity and inclusion into the future.