Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

Country/Region: MX

Location: Queretaro, MX, 76246

About the team

Opportunity to join a global team responsible for defining world‑class manufacturing processes for automotive electric steering systems. ZF Division CE Steering is a nearly 7€ billion division within the ZF Group.

Electric Front and Rear steering systems and components are manufactured in 9 plants countries across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia‑Pacific. In North America, all manufacturing and assembly processes for steering systems and components are consolidated in the Queretaro, MX plant.

With the rapid advance of autonomous driving technology, robust, efficient, and reliable manufacturing processes are crucial to achieving cost and profitability targets in a highly competitive environment.

This role involves collaboration with Global Industrial Engineering (IE) Team, product design engineering, program management, quality assurance, and production operations teams to develop and implement robust manufacturing processes for current and future generations of electric steering systems in North America from concept through serial production.

Responsibilities

• Training: Support Central Global Process Lead DFM/DFA, lessons learned, workshops, improvements. Test and validate if needed the assumptions taken, document, implement, validate.
• Support & Cooperation: Support plants for launching new product manufacturing, LLD, layouts, prototypes. Ensure plants capacity information accurate – verify number of machines in plant are sufficient to deliver the quantity of products to the customer – PowerBi and Access. Develop – create specifications (based on Generic AMEs) together with plants quality, maintenance, ME for new projects processes to buy new equipment and tooling. Equipment supplier selection together with Core IE, Purchasing and Plants.
• Documentation: Prepare customer quotes authorization AMEs per task notes from sales based on core AMEs – quotations capital, tooling, labor minutes, capacity, timing, launch costs. Responsible to create application PFMEA based on core PFMEA documentation.
• Risks assessment: New products and processes – risks assessment, industrialization planning.
• Process: Machines building tracking together with Plant NPI, supporting GDPEP gates revision utilizing OLM process. Technical availability, cycle time, quality, and on‑time delivery are key metrics. Support critical to quality process and change management process.
• Testing: Help ME and plant handover, machines testing at full capacity, helping for creating manufacturing process blueprints for specific process instructions, flowchart.
• Integrated management system.

Qualifications

• Strong PLC experience.
• 5 years work experience with industrialisation and process engineer background.
• Knowledge of core tools (FMEA, Control Plan, APQP, SPC).
• Knowledge of project management.
• Problem solving methodologies.
• Lean manufacturing.
• Knowledge of assembly manufacturing processes (robot handling, cobots, load cells, cameras, EOLT, traceability, etc.).

Benefits

• Benefits higher than those of the law.
• Insurance of major & medical expenses.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

What does DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) mean for ZF as a company?

At ZF, we continuously strive to build and maintain a culture where inclusiveness is lived and diversity is valued. We actively seek ways to remove barriers so that all our employees can rise to their full potential. We aim to embed this vision in our legacy through how we operate and build our products as we shape the future of mobility.