Manufacturing Process Engineer

Manufacturing Process Engineer
Cedar Falls, IA
$60-75K
Our client in Cedar Falls, Iowa is looking to hire a Manufacturing Process Engineer immediately! As a Manufacturing Process Engineer you will be responsible for assisting, coordinating and following up on all production control processes to facilitate manufacturing operations
Key Responsibilities:
Review and determine the production process necessary to produce metal parts.
- Establish routings, methods, layouts, tools, costs, methods documentation, labor estimates for revisions to current operations and/or new parts.
- Work with Engineering, Manufacturing and Purchasing to assess Process Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) and document to completion.
- Apply continuous improvement methods such as lean manufacturing to enhance manufacturing quality, reliability, and/or cost-effectiveness.
- Identify opportunities on new and existing products and implement changes to improve products or reduce costs using knowledge of fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment, assembly methods, quality control standards, and/or materials.
- Perform general administrative duties as needed to meet administrative support needs.
- Make and update process documentation to facilitate manufacturing.
- Write and implement work instructions for complex processes / parts.
- Update standard routings and manufacturing best practices for overall accuracy.
- Maintain and improve work flows such as ECOs and shop paperwork.
- Collaborate with engineering to create/update better manufacturability of manufactured parts to improve safety, quality, production and cost.
Job Qualifications:
- 5 years in manufacturing including metal fabrication, machining, weld and assembly (required)
- Knowledge and understanding of manufacturing process equipment involving multi-process metalworking, machining and fabrication operations (required)
- Proficiency in reading blueprints (required)
- Understanding of engineering drawings and GD&T dimensioning (required)
- US work authorization (required)
- Bachelors Degree (preferred or relevant experience)
- Project Management experience (preferred)
- Lean / Six Sigma experience (preferred)