Manufacturing Engineer

Daimler Truck AG group is the leader in the global automotive industry with more than 120 years of experience in 200 countries.

Our people reflect the company values: Passion, Respect, Integrity and Discipline; we are looking for engaged individuals to join this diverse group, which manages ever-changing challenges.

In our people, we can reflect our corporate values: Our customers success is our success, moving at the speed of right, one team best team, and we are looking for highly committed individuals to join the group in an environment of diversity and constant challenges.

Objective of the position:

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for defining, implementing, and maintaining manufacturing processes, work standards, and tooling requirements to ensure the safe, efficient, and high-quality production of products while meeting delivery targets and production demands.

This role leads the evaluation, coordination, and implementation of engineering changes, ensuring process and tooling readiness across manufacturing operations. The position ensures compliance with safety, environmental, quality, and ethical standards while supporting continuous production performance.

As a key partner to operations, the Manufacturing Engineer applies technical expertise and problem-solving skills to identify, develop, and implement innovative solutions to manufacturing challenges, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and enhance overall process efficiency, productivity, and product quality.

Indispensable Requirements (Candidates who do not meet these requirements may be discarded):

• Manufacturing process (automated process, torque application, manual assembly, Fixture, etc)
• Lean manufacturing tools (Line Balancing, VSM, PDCA, AMEF, etc)
• Design of pokayokes and error proofing systems
• 4 years of experience in manufacturing automotive processes, focus on cabin and dash assembly. Desirable.
• (Desirable) GD&T system
• (Desirable) CAD software (AutoCAD, SolidWorks)
• (Desirable) Statistical software (e.g. Minitab)
• English level: B2
• Spanish level: B2

Soft Skills:

• Analysis and problem solving
• Effective communication
• Decision making
• Planning and organization
• Project management
• Influence and negociation

Academic Knowledge: Industrial, Mechatronic Engineer or related degree

At Daimler Truck we are united in our purpose “We work for all who keep the world moving”. This motivates us to pursue our common goal: leading sustainable transportation. However, our impact as a global transportation company depends entirely on the impact of each individual at Daimler Truck. That’s why we ensure that our people are encouraged and empowered to show their full impact.

We promote diversity and stand for an inclusive corporate culture. We value the individual strengths of our employees, because these lead to the best team performance and thus to the success of our company.

You can be your true self at Daimler Truck. Inclusion and equal opportunities are important to us. We welcome applications from people of all cultures, generations, physical appearance, phases of life, sexual orientation, gender identity, sexual expression, people with disabilities and people from any underrepresented group.

Main Functions:

• Coordinate the establishment and optimization of production processes (standard work instructions) for current products, for new products, and/or product engineering changes, ensuring the implementation of a lean process, assuring safety, quality and on-time delivery.
• Coordinate, select, define (or design), acquire, improve and define sustainability process for assembly devices (fixtures, templates, gauges, mobile equipment) and tools (electrical, controlled torque and / or manual) for new operations of the assembly production lines, in order to guarantee the quality in the product.
• Coordinate and assuring the continuous improvement by introducing new technologies to increase efficiency of the production processes that the operation demands, in order to guarantee product quality and delivery.
• Coordinate along with logistics the changes on shop broadcast to keep all production areas updated, define materials location in the production line and provide the control means in order to handle them better.
• Constant communication with OU's and SU's customers to assure a costumer experience and successful implementation of projects assuring the contributions for the main KPIs of the plant.

Work Location Opportunity

Daimler Trucks AG is firmly committed to developing a work environment that supports empowerment and inclusion for our current and future employees. We recognize that our ability to adapt will enable us to compete for a broader range of talent. Additionally, our business and the people who work within it will be successful and profitable if we remain agile and flexible in our approach to work.

To continue to build a great place to work for all, we are committed to a culture that supports flexibility and encourages a positive working environment that achieves the needs of our business and employees.

Diversity allows us to employ people with different experiences, abilities and points of view, and that is what enhances our culture and brings us to the forefront among the top global companies.

At Daimler, we value the diversity between our employees.

In order to enrich the culture, Daimler acknowledges the importance of including people with different points of view and lifestyles into our company. When we select our talent, we focus on abilities; we don’t discriminate based on ethnicity, nationality, gender, race, age, disability, social condition, health, religion, immigrant status, opinions, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, marital status, university or appearance.

Exceed your expectations and get ready to be part of our team!

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