Manufacturing Engineer

The Manufacturing Engineer position reports to the Manufacturing Manager and works with the team to identify constraints inefficiencies and opportunities in manufacturing. The Manufacturing Engineer will assist in choosing the best technologies and processes to manufacture products plan and design the plant that will produce the products and manage the running maintenance and continuous improvement of the manufacturing processes. This individual will need to model the companys stated Core Values while working with other team members customers vendors community members or any others within their circle of influence. Every team member is expected to be a strong champion of our culture and for our customer. This position works across several departments within the organization and will need to have both strong people skills and strong communications skills. There also needs to be a constant desire for innovation and improvement.

Skills & Knowledge

Knowledge and experience in Manufacturing

• Fabrication: Experience with turret fiber laser and brake press equipment beneficial
  
• Powder coating: Experience with powder coating aluminum and color changes beneficial
  
• Assembly processes Sub & Final: Experience with tooling and automation beneficial
  
• Knowledge of Safety & Health practices
  
• Experience using sound project management practices
  
• Understand process and workflows for new products and product revision implementation
  
• Experience implementing Lean principles
  
• Experience with fixture design automation and process flow
  
• Knowledge and experience using CAD software ideally SolidWorks
  
• Understand and create budgets for ongoing operations and CapEx planning
  

Characteristics

The Manufacturing Engineering position requires an innate drive and attention to detail cleanliness and organization. It also requires strong attention to both Quality and Excellence. This position requires a team member that is proactive and techsavvy with the ability to identify and solve problems independently and creatively. It requires an individual that is creative and constantly learning with energy and a positive cando mentality. The Manufacturing Engineering position also requires someone who has a methodical analytical and technical thinking process with advanced troubleshooting skills. They also need a passion for innovation regarding systems productivity and good symmetry in production.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Human Factor Engineering:
  
• Leads a Culture committed to respect for people continuous improvement Safety and Quality
  
• Train team members on new processes equipment or tools
  
• Supports a Safety culture and implement Safety initiatives that drive the organization to achieve the goal of zero Safety risks
  
• Asses ergonomic impacts on new and existing processes
  
• Nonconformance Support:
  
• Set up part/material inspection from incoming vendors and or internal manufacturing
  
• Assist with developing and implementing quality standards
  
• Monitor and analyze quality performance
  
• Develop corrective actions solutions and improvements
  
• Develop Quality Control standards and assurance instruments to ensure the integrity of the lifecycle of a product s manufacturing process
  
• Process Development:
  
• Investigate and resolve operational system machine and process problems
  
• Identify and implement changes or improvements to manufacturing s systems and processes
  
• Manage standard workflows and documentation
  
• Optimize facility layouts production lines and machine operations and performance
  
• Work with new and existing vendors regarding materials specifications and quality
  
• Use operational excellence techniques to optimize flow and maximize profitability such as line balancing basic industrial engineering operator balance charts and cellular layouts
  
• Establish standards and processes for overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) including Total Productive Maintenance and SMED (quick changeover)
  
• Fixture and tooling designs for product improvements and new product implementations
  
• Product Development Support:
  
• Partner with Marketing & Sales Product Development and outside customers to launch new products and address issues with existing products
  
• Investigate and resolve operational system machine and process problems
  
• Inspection of parts from prototyping and provide feedback to PD and or Manufacturing
  
• Contribute voice of manufacturing to Product Development
  
• Continuous Improvement:
  
• Apply continuous improvement methods to improve Quality and reliability of operations systems and processes machines and equipment
  
• Drive operational Excellence projects including lean manufacturing root cause analysis and problem solving 5S and other techniques for improved Safety Quality efficiency and productivity.
  
• Programming:
  
• Program machinery using associated software.
  
• Blanking software (TruTops Stream)
  
• Bending software (TruTops Stream)
  
• CNC router (Solidworks HSMWorks MasterCAM)
  
• PLC interface
  
• Turret programming
  
• Other software platforms as needed
  
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned by the Manager.