Manufacturing Engineer Technician (on site)

Role + Responsibilities

• Determines processes, fixtures, and tools needed to produce quality parts to customer specifications
• Analyzes layout of equipment and workflow
• Reviews design renderings/prints and provide design for manufacturability feedback
• Works with internal personnel to resolve production issues, both cost and quality related
• Supports lean initiatives for process improvement on the shop floor
• Develops standard work
• Generates flat prints from models for machine specific requirements
• Strives to understand a high level of all functional areas of manufacturing processes and actively brings forth ideas for process improvement according to company objectives
• Interacts with teams of design engineers, operations, and project managers, to secure deadlines
• Identifies current state work center capacity bottlenecks within manufacturing and develops plans to realize future state demand
• Affords assistance in processing engineering change notices to the manufacturing floor
• All other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Associates degree with relevant work experience and/or production floor knowledge
• Minimum two years of manufacturing engineering experience with knowledge of AutoCAD and SolidWorks (certificate a plus)
• Sheet metal fabricating, welding, and/or assembly experience
• Experience with parts flat generation and prep work for part files for machine runs, as well as fabrication processes, methods, and programming
• Basic understanding of setting up manufacturing routes
• Understanding of material flow methods (push/pull systems)
• Ledger or six sigma training, experience or certification a plus, but not required
• Critical thinking, logic, and reasoning to troubleshoot and solve problems
• Knowledge and use of computers and Microsoft Office software
• Proven ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbally, across all levels of the organization
• Design for manufacturability exposure