Throughput Simulation, Data Owner Engineer

Role Overview

• Conduct discrete events simulations of vehicle production systems including process equipment and material delivery equipment throughout various phases of new vehicle programs to assess and improve throughput.
• Use CDraw2 and Plant Simulation software to model both dimensional and non-dimensional scenarios that accurately reflect real-world production processes and equipment.
• Ensure consistency, reliability, and accuracy in simulation results.
• Interpret the data to propose solutions aimed at improving machine efficiency, automation equipment functionality, and overall operational performance in a cost-effective manner.
• Work closely with Manufacturing Engineers, Material Integration, Conveyor Engineers, Plant Floor Systems, Layout Integrators, and technical Subject Matter Experts to appropriately scope and define simulation requirements.
• Focus on design optimization, ensuring new and existing manufacturing systems are both efficient and scalable.
• Compare throughput simulation models with plant layouts to ensure accuracy.
• Identify critical elements for each manufacturing process (e.g., number of pallets, carriers, buffers, automation, material flow/delivery) and select appropriate modeling approaches (e.g., dimensional vs. non-dimensional, 0D, 2D or 3D, animated vs. static).
• Provide clear, detailed results reports and simulations for vehicle programs to Manufacturing Leadership.
• This includes experimenting with variables, generating standard reports for standard processes, generating custom reports for non-standard experiments and new processes, and documenting lessons learned.
• Support Vehicle Manufacturing Plants in identifying bottlenecks in production and collaborate to develop innovative solutions to overcome those bottlenecks in a cost-efficient way.
• Supervise a team of 5 Material Flow Simulation Engineers to balance workload and assignments, monitor project progress and manage simulation requests by coordinating intake, resources, and timelines to ensure successful execution.
• Track and meet short and long-term deadlines while keeping organized amidst varying projects and multi-plant assignments.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert, provide mentoring and training to team members to enhance their skills and knowledge in throughput and material flow simulation modeling.
• Collect, maintain, update, and validate the performance data set for GA equipment and material delivery vehicles.
• Oversee the migration of legacy simulation models into Plant Simulation software. This will involve programming and developing customized library objects and software tools to expedite model conversion, creation and updating.
• Drive the Digital Twin vision in GM Path to Virtual to an integrated simulation of processes and material flow in a dynamic modeling to enable model validation, experimenting, and connectivity in real time.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, or related field of study
• Five (5) years of experience as a Manufacturing Engineer, Industrial Engineer, or related role
• Five years of experience with: Manufacturing engineering in a production environment; Discrete event simulation software: C-Draw2 and/or Siemens Plant Simulation; Throughput Improvement Process (TIP), methods and tools; and Application of Theory of Constraints to improve manufacturing processes.
• Three years of experience with: Advanced programming in Siemens Plant Simulation; Working in Vehicle or Global Propulsion Systems (GPS) manufacturing facilities; Modeling advanced conveyor logic; Interpreting the layouts to find relevant information; and Materials Flow Process to validate a process and optimize material delivery routes including automated material delivery equipment.
• Two years of experience with: Collecting, maintaining, updating, and validating the dataset.
• One year of experience with: AutoCAD software.

Benefits

• From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions.