Project Engineer 3 Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC, Charleston, SC Start from: immediately

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Job Overview

Leads complex equipment, production-system, and industrialization projects for the assigned production shop from feasibility through production readiness, acceptance, and handover. Translates new products, variants, model-year changes, and manufacturing requirements into executable technical scope and implementation plans. Coordinates suppliers, cross-functional resources, governance, budget, schedule, and risk to deliver compliant systems that achieve agreed safety, quality, capacity, availability, and cost targets. Ensures operational readiness and complete handover to the responsible production and support teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform new planning; plan sequences of operations/working cycles for complete systems: Perform advance, primary and detailed planning for and coordinate sequences of operations, working cycles, production equipment and lead times on the basis of new or modified procedures and in accordance with ergonomic and operational findings for complete systems, e.g. complete surface technology, complete BiW, complete new component runs (parts production and assembly).
• Change and acquire new production equipment or NISP Programming on the basis of rationalization measures.
• Prepare target /actual comparisons of required capacities, present alternatives and compile, reconcile and monitor asset investment/capital expenditure costs, overheads and production times.
• Check technical documentation and constructional criteria for optimal realizability; amend and adjust as required.
• Coordinate suppliers and specialist departments and diverse subsystem planning in the context of packages of measures for the relevant area of responsibility as applicable
• Lead complex equipment, technical system, and product-industrialization projects from feasibility and concept development through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, production readiness, acceptance, and handover; establish scope and delivery targets with stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, work packages, resource requirements, risk assessments, decision papers, approvals, and milestone deliverables; coordinate project teams, conduct gate-readiness reviews, and accelerate progress, decisions, risks, and corrective actions against quality, cost, and timing targets.
• Translate product changes and agreed process, cycle-time, throughput, quality, ergonomic, safety, availability, maintainability, and maintenance requirements into equipment concepts, technical specifications, implementation plans, and acceptance criteria; review drawings and technical documentation for feasibility and conformity.
• Prepare technical specification books and RFQ inputs; evaluate supplier quotations, technical solutions, investment and operating costs, lifecycle support, and delivery capability; support Procurement in supplier selection and technical negotiations.
• Coordinate suppliers, contractors, specialist departments, and internal and international partners; resolve design discrepancies, technical interfaces, and delivery issues; control changes to scope and requirements; and ensure compliance with applicable MBV standards, legal and permitting requirements, machine safety, environmental requirements, and IT/cybersecurity requirements.
• Prepare investment estimates and budget recommendations; track assigned capital and non-capital project costs, commitments, forecasts, and deviations, and support project financial closure within established approval processes.
• Plan and coordinate installation, line interventions, commissioning, production trials, and ramp-up with Production, Maintenance, and other stakeholders; resolve technical problems, min