Manufacturing Engineer

Marmon Link

As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

Marmon Renew is a global leader in beverage and food service equipment remanufacturing. Our commitment to quality, ability to meet specific customer needs, and provide ‘like new’ equipment at a reduced cost provides an immediate value proposition to our customers.

As part of the Engineering team, the Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for the development and implementation of manufacturing processes on new and existing products to achieve an optimum relationship between cost and quality. This position is responsible for every aspect of process engineering, industrial engineering, production standard costs, tooling/equipment procurement, improving operating performance, identifying and reducing waste, supporting new product evaluation and onboarding, and troubleshooting in assigned areas of responsibility. This Manufacturing Engineer ensures a quality system is effectively implemented to prevent defects and provides information for continuous improvement, including using lean manufacturing concepts to eliminate waste.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Continually evaluate alternatives leading to the development and implementation of manufacturing processes on new and existing products to achieve an optimum relationship between cost and quality.
• Responsible for work center design and product/process flow including ergonomic considerations, lean manufacturing technology, mechanical design, electrical component usage & system logic, changeover ease, etc. to optimize the manufacturing process.
• Evaluate new equipment models and develop processing plans and supporting standard work to launch production runs.
• Lead business unit efforts in the development and implementation of lean manufacturing concepts including developing strategies, training employees, facilitating kaizen events, etc.
• Coordinate activities in scrap reduction, elimination of rework, material variances, labor variances, safety & ergonomic evaluations, and overall continuous improvement in assigned areas.
• Collaborate with the staff to ensure that all performance goals and objectives are supported. Establish and maintain a cooperative relationship with all support functions.
• Coordinate activities with the Plant Manager to ensure conformance with objectives and policies.
• Plan, justify, execute, and monitor capital programs as assigned.  This includes budgeted capital projects such as tooling, equipment, automation initiatives, etc.
• Develop and maintain the layout of production and non-production floor space for effective utilization. Develop and maintain all production routings, work measurement standards, manufacturing set-up and work instructions, work center descriptions, etc. for operations in assigned areas.
• Provide support and coordinate all mechanical/electrical repairs with the Maintenance Department to develop detailed instructions for all preventative and predictive maintenance tasks for the upkeep of all equipment in assigned areas.
• Develops sampling plans, quality standards, and process control instructions to monitor and reduce variation.
• Interface with customer to identify process and product improvement opportunities and to identify short term, and long-term corrective actions.

Required Qualifications, Skills/Competencies

• BSME, BSIE, or equivalent with at least 3 years of experience in manufacturing and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with implementing and executing lean manufacturing concepts.

• Strong leadership and exhibited skills mentoring, developing, and training employees on continuous improvement.
• Excellent persuasive skills and the ability to facilitate, support and implement change within the organization.
• Proven ability to collaborate with leaders across the organization.
• Proven project management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work with all levels of employees.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, procedure manuals and effectively present information and respond to questions from employees, engineers, and other disciplines.

Pay Range:

64,000.00 - 96,000.00

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that may include medical, dental, vision, 401k matching, and more!

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to [email protected], and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.