Manufacturing Engineer

Description
This position supports Plant Manufacturing and Technical Operations while maintaining a strong focus on continual Process Improvement and Optimization. Applies fundamental knowledge of basic principles, theories and concepts of industry standards and practices to design, automate, modify, or develop facilities, testing, machines, equipment or processes used in processing or manufacturing products.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

Under the guidance of the Sr. Process Engineer

• Develops, designs, and communicates manufacturing processes.
• Monitors and revises processes to help generate cost savings and improve the quality and efficiency of product/process.
• Participates in design reviews to improve the ability to manufacture products.
• Responsible for the activities related to the development of new processes including researching current and emerging technologies, evaluating process cost, quality, and performing process characterization and optimization studies using designed experiments, problem-solving and decision making tools.
• Identifies and solves issues or problems with equipment/process. Troubleshoots possible causes and coordinates the activities of maintenance, production and other available resources to implement cost effective solutions.
• Provides coordination of new process installation and process changes.
• Other projects/duties as assigned.

 

Qualifications

Essential Functions:

•    Improve processes and equipment to drive uptime higher while reducing scrap in various production operations including winding, coating, HGRC, ORC and twisting.
•    Develop new processes for new products.  This may be new designs of products, or using new materials for current designs, or utilizing new equipment.  
•    Must have some mechanical ability to adjust tooling for the design and materials used and to increase performance.  
•    Evaluate and optimize processes and equipment to generate cost savings, and improve quality, efficiency and productivity.  Will need to work closely with Production, 

EH&S, QA, Maintenance, and outside vendors.
•    Develop new processes, research emerging technologies, and execute characterization and optimization studies of current processes using design of experiments, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, Lean Six Sigma tools, and other data-driven decision-making tools.
•    Identify and resolve equipment/material/training/process issues and coordinate activities of maintenance, quality, production and other resources to execute cost effective solutions.
•    Will need to balance multiple projects simultaneously while driving forward progress.
•    Provide subject matter expertise to other departments.
•    24/5+ support of manufacturing lines. 
•    Other duties as assigned.
 

Education and Experience
•    Bachelor of Science (or higher) in Engineering. Preferred degrees in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.
•    2+ years of experience in process engineering role preferred.
•    Hands-on process engineering experience in high volume manufacturing environment preferred. 
•    Process troubleshooting experience preferred.
•    Lean six sigma experience preferred.
•    Strong project management skills.
•    Strong mechanical aptitude.
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
•    Strong degree of creativity.
•    Self-starter with initiative and a strong work ethic.
•    Knowledge of plant safety procedures.
•    Strong team player when collaborating with internal and external team members.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 
The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical demands required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
    use hands and fingers
    handle and/or feel and reach with hands and arms 
    required to stand and walk required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk and hear 
    occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs
    specific vision abilities required include:
    close vision
    depth perception 
    ability to adjust focus

WORK ENVIRONMENT:    
The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
    While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to:
    moving mechanical parts
    fumes or airborne particles
    noise level in the work environment ranges from normal office noise levels to loud noise
    Employees are required to wear mandatory PPE which include:
    safety glasses with side shields
    hearing protection when on production floor
    steel toe shoes/boots when on production floor
    uniforms
    specific gloves when performing specific tasks
 

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