MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Responsibilities

• Determines tooling, fixtures and equipment needed in order to achieve manufacturing goals
• Designs fixtures & tooling required
• Works with R&D to ensure product manufacturability
• Confer with R&D Engineering, Production/ Manufacturing, Quality and Materials staff to discuss project specifications and procedures
• Affirms manufacturability of product with R&D Engineering
• Participates in design reviews and approval phases
• Evaluates tooling or equipment requirements to support production/manufacturing
• Supports design changes of product once it enters production
• Assists in the development of inspection criteria with Quality Control
• Supports Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) activities associated with development and production/ manufacturing problems
• Creates, maintains and improves processes, work flow, and process documentation
• Develops and/or improves assembly fixtures in support of development and production of products
• Creates and submits Engineering Change Request to Engineering for review and approval
• Reviews & approves Engineering Change Orders
• Works with Materials Group to develop and implement technical requirements for suppliers
• Coincides with suppliers to resolve issues
• Maintains product Bill of Materials in ERP system
• Works with cross functional teams to create and maintain Methods of Manufacturing within ERP system
• Works with QA on Production & Manufacturing issues and inspection criteria
• Coincides/supports non-conforming product disposition working with the Production/Quality department to define the proper disposition of the non-conformity
• Provides technical engineering expertise to Production & Manufacturing