Jobs at Summit Polymers

Develops, manufactures, assembles, installs, and commissions manual and automated assembly equipment for manufacturing facilities. Responsibilities include machining components, assembling fixtures, integrating pneumatic, electrical, mechanical, sensor, servo, motor-control, safety, and vision systems, modifying designs and BOMs, supporting engineering changes, participating in design reviews, and establishing machine standards. The role requires collaboration with designers, plant engineering, and internal teams, plus up to 10% travel.

Develop cost estimates and quotation packages for new automotive products, engineering changes, and customer RFQs. Analyze designs, BOMs, drawings, materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, labor, overhead, supplier quotes, and customer requirements. Collaborate with engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, sales, accounting, program managers, and customers. Support pricing strategy, cost variance analysis, cost reduction, value engineering, and compliance with financial and contractual requirements.

Provides hands-on manufacturing engineering support for automotive assembly machines and cells. Responsibilities include designing and launching assembly equipment, ensuring manufacturability, developing standardized work and layouts, monitoring machine construction, validating equipment, implementing engineering changes, troubleshooting production issues, improving efficiency and quality, conducting process audits, and supporting preventive maintenance. The role requires PLC programming, machine controls, robotics, welding and decorating process knowledge, print reading, and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Coordinates the design, approval, construction, validation, and functional readiness of injection molding tools. Leads design reviews, supplier progress monitoring, sampling events, documentation, tooling problem resolution, and quality improvements. Collaborates with engineering, plant, customer, and external tooling teams, provides technical support, and ensures tooling milestones and documentation are completed on schedule. The role requires prior tool-making, tool-design, or tool-repair experience and up to 15% travel.

Provides technical leadership for automotive assembly machine development, launch, validation, and production support. Designs manufacturable assembly processes, develops standardized work, analyzes capacity and work balance, troubleshoots equipment and process issues, and leads engineering changes involving PLCs, electrical and pneumatic systems, servo controls, machining, sensors, and vision systems. Supports continuous improvement, process audits, preventive maintenance, packaging development, and kaizen initiatives.

Manages automotive engineering programs from feasibility and quoting through design, tooling, customer submission, and launch. Oversees budgets, timelines, critical paths, quality, APQP, and customer requirements while leading cross-functional product development teams. Serves as the primary customer liaison and coordinates Sales, Design, Engineering, Estimating, Accounting, Quality, and Manufacturing. Tracks open issues, supports cost savings and continuous improvement activities, and ensures on-time delivery within approved program budgets.

Supports engineering and automotive programs by tracking engineering changes, documentation, budgets, purchase orders, milestones, tooling invoices, pre-production orders, assets, and program reports. Maintains workplans, inventory, part lists, and financial data while coordinating with program managers, engineers, finance, plants, and customers. The role also enters Ford program information into WERS and facilitates communications and approvals throughout the program lifecycle.

Leads the development, implementation, testing, and enhancement of global internal controls and financial governance. Conducts enterprise risk assessments, maintains risk and controls matrices, develops corporate financial policies, coordinates audits, oversees account reconciliation governance, and drives financial process improvements. Partners with executive, finance, operations, HR, IT, and regional teams across domestic and international operations to strengthen compliance, financial reporting accuracy, and business processes.

Manages plant finance operations, including accounts payable, general ledger accuracy, budgeting, period-end close, inventory support, audits, and financial reporting. Supervises the Finance Coordinator, advises plant leadership, monitors policy compliance, investigates manufacturing production data, and supports bills of material and cost accounting activities.

Leads US human resources operations and strategy across multiple sites, including talent management, recruiting, organizational development, compensation and benefits, employee relations, employment-law compliance, safety, environmental compliance, investigations, budgeting, HR process improvement, and HR team leadership. Partners with executives to align people programs with business goals and foster a high-performing, continuously improving culture.

Leads commodity-specific automotive engineering activities for interior components, including part design, tooling, technical reviews, development timing, budgets, and customer requirements. Supervises designers and project engineers, develops technical competency, maintains engineering standards and knowledge databases, supports program launches and quoting, and collaborates with program management, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and R&D. The role requires engineering or equivalent technical education and progressive industrial project management experience.

Performs corporate finance and accounting activities, including cost accounting, general ledger analysis, journal entries, month-end reporting, budgeting support, fixed asset system maintenance, financial analysis, and compliance monitoring. Compiles and presents financial results to senior management while supporting manufacturing operations and intercompany pricing processes.