Engineering Technician

About the role

The engineering technician will work alongside manufacturing engineers, maintenance personnel, toolmakers, and production personnel to implement engineering projects in the plant.

Responsibilities

• Support implementation of machinery replacement project.
• Develops hands-on competency in Burndy Littleton’s patented tooling system for progressive metal forming.
• Gains the ability to perform die set-ups and machine set-ups, and to perform process monitoring and machine tuning.
• Develops hands-on competency in a unique graphical user interface (GUI) timing chart to control servo-actuated Bihler NC machine.
• Reads and interprets production drawings to gain knowledge of critical product dimensions.
• Develops understanding of how product dimensions relate to process parameters and tooling dimensions, and assists engineers in new tooling fabrication and implementation.
• Works alongside manufacturing engineering and operators to troubleshoot problems that arise with the implementation of any of the above tasks.
• Support tooling development initiatives.
• Continues the engineering initiative of cataloging and fully implementing tooling items into the engineering documentation library and SAP Plant Maintenance software.
• Aids manufacturing engineering in defining requirements and guidelines for replacement equipment and processes from outside vendors.
• Supports automated manufacturing and assembly processes.
• Work alongside manufacturing engineering to analyze, identify, design and implement improved manufacturing techniques and processes in CNC work cells.
• Support process improvements associated with production machinery and documentation.
• Perform time studies to verify current production sequence documentation is accurate to the actual manufacturing processes.
• Work alongside manufacturing engineering to analyze, identify and implement replacement machinery to improve throughput of various production processes.
• Supports Company Safety Initiatives including Lock-out/Tag-out/Clear & Try.
• Supports the development of new products.
• Performs all tasks in a manner that doesn’t impede production schedule.

Qualifications

• Ability to read and understand production prints and tolerancing conventions.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good written communication skills.
• Ability to check computer throughout the day for emails and internal workflow notifications.
• Mechanical aptitude: must be able to work on and with machinery in a manner that is safe, systematic, and effective. Must be comfortable working safely with progressive die sets.
• Leadership: must be comfortable implementing changes in an environment where change is difficult.
• Ability to use Microsoft Excel for project tracking and documentation indexing.
• Must be familiar with creating CAD models and drawings; experience in Autodesk Inventor preferred.
• Ability to converse with toolmakers and skilled setup personnel to understand critical tooling information, and to convey this information using engineering drawing conventions.
• Must be able to take repeatable measurements with digital vernier calipers, micrometers, and gage blocks.
• Takes responsibility for project successes.
• Must have the persistence required to complete technical tasks.
• Must proactively continue to check for task completion if the task has been delegated to another party.
• Has a thick skin.
• Reacts to potentially challenging situations in a way that diminishes or resolves conflict rather than amplifies it.
• Understands cold forming physics.
• Must be able to maintain a clean and organized workbench while simultaneously dealing with articles that do not fit into categories.

Bonus Skills

• Understanding of fits and tolerances (press fit, slip fit, etc.).
• Conversant knowledge of material compositions (D2, S7, 4140, etc.) and Rockwell Scale hardness for tooling applications.
• Understanding of GD&T.
• Ability to conduct bulk computations (macros) in Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to make insightful recommendations for process improvements, and to develop an implementation plan for these recommendations.
• Ability to perform basic electrical diagnosis with basic tools (test light, multimeter, etc.) and read electrical diagrams.
• Experience with machine fixture and jig design.
• General understanding of control systems and input/output logic as it relates to production machinery.