Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develops, designs, and communicates manufacturing processes.
• Maintains and revises processes to generate cost savings and improve product/process quality and efficiency.
• Participates in design reviews to enhance the capability of manufacturing products.
• Identifies and resolves equipment/process issues, coordinating activities of maintenance, production, and other resources to implement cost-effective solutions.
• Coordinates new process installations and process changes.

Qualifications

• Improve processes and equipment to increase uptime and reduce scrap in various production operations.
• Evaluate and optimize processes and equipment to generate cost savings, improve quality, efficiency, and productivity.
• 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.
• Balance multiple projects simultaneously while driving progress.
• Provide subject matter expertise to other departments.
• Provide 24/7 support of manufacturing lines.

About the Role

This position supports Plant Manufacturing and Technical Operations while focusing on continuous Process Improvement and Optimization. It involves designing, automating, modifying, or developing facilities, testing, machines, equipment, or processes used in processing or manufacturing products. The role requires mechanical ability to adjust tooling for design and materials used and to increase performance.