Manufacturing Engineer

Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Works with Value Stream team to identify and apply continuous improvement methods to enhance manufacturing quality, reliability, or cost-effectiveness
• Designs, develops, tests or sources and cost-justifies various tools, machinery, and equipment for recommended manufacturing methods.
• Supports senior engineers in research, design and development of manufacturing processes including welding schedules, production flow, assembly methods, production equipment and machining.
• Project management of identified capital equipment projects
• Applies failure analysis to determine root causes of problems and failures and develops solutions or recommends changes in designs, tolerances, or processing methods.
• Evaluates equipment requirements, performs cost analyses, and proposals for integrating machinery and equipment into manufacturing process.
• Coordinates all pre-production activities including sample evaluation, design qualification and prototype production.
• Provides documentation and detailed drawings for manufacturing and assembly of materials, assemblies, and finished products.
• Prepares documentation for new manufacturing processes or engineering procedures. 
• Proficient with design software to perform engineering and design tasks.
• Contributes to the development and implementation of best practice Lean vision, policies, processes, and procedures to aid and improve operational performance.
• Assist technicians and/or maintenance with troubleshooting, building and/or assembly of various machines and equipment as necessary.

Requirements

Education and/or Experience: 

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from four-year college or university in Engineering or related field
• Minimum 3 years relevant manufacturing experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with and knowledge of solid modeling, SolidWorks or AutoCAD engineering design software, and engineering materials and their properties.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

• Active Listening – Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Communication Skills – The ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally with all levels of supervision on the status of jobs.
• Complex Problem Solving – Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Deductive Reasoning – The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Engineering and Technology – Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
• Information Ordering – The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Judgment and Decision Making – Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Mechanical – Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Problem Sensitivity – The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Production and Processing – Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Systems Analysis – Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Troubleshooting – Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.