Associate, Manufacturing Engineer

Job Title: Associate, Manufacturing Engineer

Job Code: 33437

Job Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

Job Schedule: 4/10 - Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days per week.

Job Description:

This position supports strategic programs essential to maintaining U.S. Armed Forces’ readiness.  The successful Manufacturing Engineer will contribute as a member of the production support team.  Activities include development of production processes, procedures, and layouts for mechanical, electronic, and electro-mechanical assemblies. Manufacturing Engineers also support production through operator training, process issue resolution, and monitoring and evaluating existing operations for opportunities to improve efficiency, first pass yield, and scrap rates.

Essential Functions:

• Analyze engineering design documents and develop the methods, processes, tools, jigs, fixtures, etc. required to fabricate the specified product.


• Develop and prepare work instructions, control plans, Process Failure Mode Effects Analyses (PFMEAs), and process validation plans.


• Lead the set-up and validation of new production lines and training.


• Monitor production key performance indicators and respond accordingly to ensure goals are being met.


• Analyze manufacturing production problems and implement corrective actions involving designs, materials, and processes.


• Provide technical expertise and support related to manufacturing.


• Conduct capacity analyses, capability studies, and gage repeatability and reproducibility studies.


• Less than 10% travel expected.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.


• 1 year or more experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, and Excel).


• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering.


• Experience in multi-tasking and interfacing with all levels of management and effectively interfacing with customers.


• Experience in the defense or aerospace industry.


• Experience with electronic and/or electromechanical assemblies.


• Experience with pressing, staking, riveting, swaging, potting, electronics soldering, conformal coating, packaging, X-ray inspection, laser welding, robotics, and control systems.


• Experience with ANSI J-STD-001, AS9100, and ANSI Y14.5.


• Experience with SolidEdge and Minitab.


• Experience with 6sig, 8D.


• Experience with CostPoint, SAP, TipQA.