Engineer I

About the Role

Toyota is seeking a passionate and highly motivated Engineer I - Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) Battery Production for their newest manufacturing facility, Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC). This role supports the manufacturing of Battery Production by budget planning, providing engineering solutions to improve manufacturing indicators, and managing process changes. The position embodies a culture of continuous improvement and provides engineering services to manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities

• Mass Production Engineering support for Battery Manufacturing.
• Proactively identify and solve problems by spending time with people and equipment on the production shop floor.
• Use a methodical and data-driven analytical approach to continuously improve safety, quality, productivity, and cost problems.
• Report status to management members.
• Strong focus on process and equipment changepoint management and leading innovative engineering activities.
• Establish and manage budget planning and successful project execution.
• Drive action through proactive problem solving, visualizing group condition, and providing measurable and continual improvement.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience.
• Manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, quality, and/or project management experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Ability and willingness to work flexible hours, including 2nd shift (on occasion), weekends, and holidays/shutdown, dependent on business needs.
• Ability to lead cross-functional groups toward a common goal using strong communication and visualization skills.
• Operational familiarity working with production operations and various aspects of equipment (i.e., electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, PLC, robotics, safety protocols, etc.).

Added Bonus

• Experience with battery processes, cell, module, or similar experience in a highly automated production environment.
• Skills related to industrial process engineering (e.g., machine reliability, controls - program design and user interface work, IoT – process monitoring, data collection and storage, analytics, process / equipment FMEA).
• Knowledge or experience with Lean Manufacturing Principles (e.g., 4S, FMDS, TBP, Visualization).