Maintenance Engineer
Date: May 15, 2026
Location: Zhaoqing, CN
Company: Leggett & Platt
We make life more comfortable.
Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.
Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership span more than 130 years. Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products for all areas of life. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the automotive, furniture, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile and geo components industries.
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Automotive
Leggett & Platt Automotive is a global provider of wire forms, mechanical control cables, wireless charging, as well as seat lumbar, suspension, bolster, actuator, and motor systems. In addition to these award-winning, category-leading products, we offer tailored goods due to our expertise in product development and attention to market trends. Our unique competitive advantages give us unmatched insight into the demands of the consumer.
Learn more about Leggett & Platt Automotive: Leggett & Platt Automotive
Job Role:
1.Leading a Safety approach maintaining a zero accident culture. Ensures and monitors work, accident prevention
and environmental protection regulations of the facility to assure a safe and productive work environment free of
any liabilities or defects.
2.Develop and manage within the Manufacturing Engineering budget. Monitors Quality and quantity of output of
processes; takes appropriate action, including shutdown, to prevent scrap and assists others in investigations to
determine causes of process defects,and downtime.
3. Supports in DFM and DFSS in new product development.
4. Designs and develops new manufacturing processes (including equipment specifications to support RFQ process)
in line with latest technology advacements within global manufacturing standards.
5.Optimize manufacturing efficiency / lean excellence through flexible manufacturing structure, improvement
through Lean Manufacturing methods within operations and optimize production utilization and Strategy.Maintain a culture of functional and Operational Excellence, supports 5S, lean initiatives and to be a committedrole model for our Company’s Beliefs and Behaviors.
6. Develops PFMEA, Process Flow and Work instructions. Manages plant layout to support lean process flow and
optimization of total facility footage.
7.Establish and maintain appropriate internal capabilities and strengthen the organization (Succession Planning)through training, career development opportunities and recruiting as necessary to achieve Manufacturing objectives.
8. Adherence to internal and external Business Processes and Certifications synonymous with a large US Incorporation operating within the Automotive Industry and all other local legal requirements.
Job Requirements:
1. Full-time bachelor's degree or above.
2. Proficient in OFFICE operations; able to read and write in English, and able to communicate directly in English with foreigners is preferred.
3. More than 5 years of work experience in the process-related departments of the automotive DC motor industry, familiar with the process flow of brushed and brushless motors, familiar with the requirements of motor production equipment, able to independently lead the introduction of production lines. Understand mechanical design structures and be proficient in using SolidWorks, CATIA, CAD, etc.
4. Experience in 4S or higher-speed production lines is preferred.
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Our Values
Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.
- Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
- Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
- Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
- Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.
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