.JOB DESCRIPTIONEducation Required: Degree in EngineeringExperience Required: 6+ years in Engineering. TeamCenter/PLM experience preferred.Primary Responsibility:Plant Support for Adient SS&M Operations: Provide ongoing, on-site, Product Engineering support for Matamoros manufacturing Plant and local customer interface/liaison.Provide seamless engagement with Plymouth Engineering: Be the voice/extension of Plymouth Engineering within the Matamoros plant.Respond to customer requests throughout the year. Develop positive and proactive working relationships with Matamoros regional customer counterparts.Understand Matamoros's manufacturing processes to maintain personal connection with both product and process.Monitor all high impact plant concerns and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ). Where appropriate, develop and champion action plans to improve quality/productivity and reduce COPQ via Product Engineering actions.Work to implement and close all Deviations and Engineering Changes expeditiously. Assure no lost time due to lack of clarity regarding status and critical path.Cost Reduction – Support Engineering events/actions in Matamoros.Identify & Define opportunities (including use of VA/VE workshops, COPQ analysis, containment, quality concerns, productivity, rework, sorting, etc.) in conjunction with Manufacturing, Quality, Purchasing, Suppliers.Support development of business cases/justifications and gain approvals for engineering actions.Develop Engineering Tactical Plans for approved Cost Reduction projects and forecast savings.Support Engineering trials and pilot builds.Execute projects per Tactical Plans and document savings.New Program Launch Support in Matamoros: Assist as on-site Product Engineering liaison for Phase 2-5 launch teams for new programs.Support PSMC reviews – Assist in development of action plans to execute Engineering actions as needed to rapidly close concerns.Support problem solving, and data collection as required to support successful pilot builds through launch.Assist as needed with PPAP concerns/opportunities from a Product Engineering perspective.Participate in early program builds and design reviews in Plymouth as appropriate.Identify/define improvement opportunities, support development of business case/justifications, and support to assure successful execution.Change Management - Engineering and Team Tools in Matamoros: Understand and utilize TeamCenter/PLM to assist Matamoros in effective/efficient communication with Plymouth and the extended organization.Assist Matamoros in understanding and implementing all Engineering and Customer product changes via use of TeamCenter/PLM.Review all Matamoros initiated Change Requests and DAs for completeness and assure supporting documentation/data is available.Actively participate in weekly PR/CR/CO/DA review – be knowledgeable of status of each Matamoros related PR/CR/CO/DA owned and follow-up as needed between meetings