Modeling and Simulation Engineer

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Role Summary Modeling and Simulation Engineer MANN+HUMMEL Onsite - Gastonia, NC #LI-Onsite: The Manufacturing Digital Twin Engineer owns and builds the plant-level Digital Twin for an IATF-certified automotive manufacturing facility (~375 employees) producing Heavy Duty and Industrial Air and Liquid Filtration. The role develops the capabaility from the ground up using AutoCAD and FlexSim to model end-to-end production and internal logistics, run mixed-methods simulations, and provide data-driven recommendations to improve throughout, robustness, and investment decisions - while creating reusable standards/templates for global scaling. Main Tasks: - Own the plant Digital Twin in AutoCAD + FlexSim - Establish governed model structure (assets, routings, constraints, assumptions, versioning) - keep the model aligned to real-world conditions (including high-mix/low volume realities) - Update flows/routings/process steps end-to-end - Maintain capacity inputs: cycle times, changeovers, uptime/downtime - Maintains shift/labor patterns, buffers/WIP rules, operating contraints - Model internal logistics: warehouse/supermarkets, tugger/forklifts routes, replenishment logic - Validate and ref...