Project Engineer 3

About Us

Shape the future today. The world is changing. The question is, what will be our contribution to the outcome? We have set the pace in the field of mobility from the very beginning, and we will continue to do so. At Mercedes-Benz Vans, interdisciplinary teams are developing the mobility of tomorrow. Our goal is to make mobility safer, simpler, and more sustainable for people across the globe.

At Mercedes-Benz Vans, we offer an environment for professional and personal growth, with cutting-edge training and career opportunities that support the development of professional skills and individual strengths.

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.

Responsibilities

• Perform new planning and plan sequences of operations, working cycles, production equipment, and lead times for complete systems.
• Change and acquire new production equipment or NISP programming on the basis of rationalization measures.
• Prepare target-versus-actual comparisons of required capacities and monitor asset investment, capital expenditure, overhead, and production-time costs.
• Review technical documentation and construction criteria for optimal realizability and make required adjustments.
• Coordinate suppliers, specialist departments, and subsystem planning across relevant work packages.
• Lead complex equipment, technical system, and product-industrialization projects from feasibility and concept development through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, production readiness, acceptance, and handover.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, work packages, resource requirements, risk assessments, decision papers, approvals, and milestone deliverables.
• Translate product changes and process requirements into equipment concepts, technical specifications, implementation plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Prepare technical specification books and RFQ inputs; evaluate supplier quotations, technical solutions, costs, lifecycle support, and delivery capability.
• Coordinate suppliers, contractors, specialist departments, and internal and international partners while managing technical interfaces, scope changes, and compliance requirements.
• Prepare investment estimates and budget recommendations; track project costs, commitments, forecasts, and deviations.
• Plan and coordinate installation, line interventions, commissioning, production trials, and ramp-up with Production, Maintenance, and other stakeholders.
• Lead equipment and production-readiness acceptance and validate cycle time, throughput, quality capability, safety, availability, maintainability, and production robustness.
• Complete handover of accepted equipment and systems, documentation, training records, spare-parts and preventive-maintenance readiness, and open-item responsibilities.
• Improve project standards, technical specifications, methods, lessons learned, and acceptance checklists; mentor less experienced engineers and lead defined work packages.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring without formal supervisory authority. There are no direct reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Electrical, Electronics Engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent qualification.
• Five or more years of relevant engineering, industrialization, manufacturing, or technical project experience, including experience leading equipment or production-system projects.
• Experience leading equipment projects and coordinating suppliers and cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in project planning, governance, milestone readiness, risk and change management, cost control, decision documentation, and project reporting.
• Experience with product industrialization, technical specifications, quotation evaluation, design reviews, equipment installation, commissioning, production trials, acceptance, ramp-up, and handover.
• Understanding of cycle time, throughput, equipment availability, maintainability, quality capability, production robustness, ergonomics, machine safety, environmental compliance, and maintenance requirements.
• Strong technical judgment, analytical skills, and structured problem-solving capability.
• Knowledge of lean production systems and applicable quality management and planning standards.
• Ability to work independently, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, and communicate technical information clearly.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence teams without direct supervisory authority.
• Proficiency with office, data analysis, and relevant engineering tools.

Additional Information

Automotive manufacturing experience is preferred. PMP certification and relevant foreign-language skills are advantageous where applicable.

EEO Statement

Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC is committed to fostering an inclusive environment that appreciates and leverages the diversity of its team. The company provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees in accordance with applicable law.

Benefits

• Mobile phone for employees
• Possible health benefits
• Discounts for employees
• Possible employee events
• Parking

Contact

Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC
8501 Palmetto Commerce Pkwy
Charleston, SC 29456
MBUSA Talent Acquisition: talent_acquisition@mbusa.com