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Manufacturing Engineer

Legendary Companies                                                    www.legendarycompanies.com

1317 Chestnut Street                                                         www.cokertire.com

Chattanooga, TN 37402                                                    www.wheelvintiques.com

(423) 516-3215                                                                   www.paraggoncorvette.com

                                                                                            www.oldtimer-reifen.com

Legendary Companies, based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a holding company comprised of some of the leading manufacturers of collector car and motorcycle wheels and tires, as well as specialty restoration parts. Our brands include Coker Tire, Wheel Vintiques, Universal Vintage Tire, Phoenix Race Tires, Specialty Wheel, MOR, Vintage Wheel Works, PS Engineering, Roadster Wire Wheel and Paragon Corvette. Legendary Companies is backed by private equity firm Irving Place Capital (“IPC”).

Legendary Companies’ corporate office is in Chattanooga, TN.   The company has approximately 130 total employees and operates out of five (5) facilities located in: 

• Chattanooga, TN (2 facilities); City of Industry, CA, Swartz Creek, MI and Holzkirchen, Germany (near Munich).

Irving Place Capital (“IPC”) made their initial investment in November of 2018 with the acquisition of the Coker Tire Company, as a continuation of the firm’s focus on specialty manufacturing and distribution companies.  IPC’s investment thesis: “An opportunity to acquire a family-owned, highly-defensible, market leading provider of unique tires and wheels for classic and vintage vehicles provided a great platform from which to grow into other product categories that serve the same customer set. Legendary Companies represents a platform to pursue a build-up strategy in the vehicle aftermarket industry that leverages the company’s established business processes, including its direct-to-consumer competencies”.

Other IPC platform investments include: Alpha Packaging, Dynojet Research, and Mold-Rite Plastics.  Since its formation in 1997, IPC has been an investor in more than 60 companies and has raised over $4.0 billion of equity capital.  Learn more at www.irvingplacecapital.com

Job Summary

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for design, development, and improvement of manufacturing processes by analyzing product and manufacturing methods.   In addition, this position requires maintaining quality and safety standards, document control, and supporting the engineering needs of all manufacturing operations.  The incumbent will also lead a cross functional team to implement improvements to existing equipment, manufacturing methods and tooling.? Additionally, the Manufacturing Engineer is tasked with leading the maintenance department to implement and ensure proper preventative maintenance is being performed on all in house equipment.

Essential Functions

• Support Sales Department with order status and tentative build dates, ultimately developing a system to support order status communications.
• Review and calculate labor, material, and other production costs along with reviewing schedules and future production requirements to assist management in decision making.
• Ensure that the company’s manufacturing processes follow all government laws and regulations.
• Analyze and plan workflow, equipment placement and space requirements to improve manufacturing efficiency.
• Develop and provide all necessary engineering documentation for manufacturing processes.
• Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing processes and manufacturing methods.
• Evaluate quality control processes and make recommendations for improvements in quality control.
• Assure product and process quality by designing test methods, testing finished product and process capabilities, establishing standards, confirming manufacturing processes.
• Provide manufacturing decision making information (data) by calculating production, labor, and material costs.
• Collaborate with outside sources for tooling design, design simulation, and tooling production as needed.
• Coordinate equipment maintenance and repair services and make sure that manufacturer’s procedures and instructions are followed to keep production equipment operational.
• Perform additional duties as required.

The successful candidate’s qualifications will include:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college.
•  Focus of study in one of the following: Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Electrical Engineering. 
• 4 years of experience in manufacturing environment within an assembly or welding/fabricating environment. 
• Proven computer and software use skills.  Advanced knowledge of MS Office suite, Power Point, Excel, and Microsoft Teams proficiency.
• Interpersonal, organizational, time management and leadership skills.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Exceptional organizational and multi-tasking skills.

• The Manufacturing Engineer position will be based in City of Industry, CA reporting directly to the General Manager.
• The individual in this position will spend several hours working/standing in a production environment. He/she may also have to do some light to moderate lifting of supplies and materials from time to time.

• Unless other arrangements are made with supervisor, the individual in this position works a full-time schedule week during our open business hours.  Position requires candidate to be available after hours and weekends.
• Up to 10% travel is expected for this position.  A current U.S. Passport is required.

Human Resources

edadams@coker.com

423.648.8577 x 277

Legendary Companies

1317 Chestnut Street

Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402