Senior Manufacturing Engineer

What You Will Do

• Supports the current manufacturing and facilitates the continuous improvement processes associated with the manufacturing methods and processes in the plant facility.
• Develops solutions for production problems related to materials, processes, and tooling.
• Supports new products and programs by developing new processes, designing tooling and machinery, and developing production controls.
• Responsible for set-up of new equipment, ensures proper operation of the new equipment, and to teach others the proper use of this equipment.
• Applies sound economic methods to equipment and space utilization to meet design and quality criteria with the lowest expense and consistent with the facilities financial and non-financial objectives.

Principal Duties

• Reviews specifications and bid proposals and cost estimate requests to establish the feasibility of accepting orders.
• Determines manufacturability, investment requirements, product costing and delivery schedules.
• Develops processes, methods, tooling, and production controls for new products and programs; supervises their assembly and proofing.
• Supports production to resolve any manufacturing issues.
• Maintains, operates, and troubleshoots manufacturing support software.
• Plans, justifies and implements facility changes to produce the forecasted volume of product economically.
• Provides technical assistance to the plant including Materials, Quality Control, Continuous Improvement, Engineering, and Safety.
• Supports Lean Manufacturing and Flow Manufacturing.
• Supports and leads 5S activities.
• Participates in and leads Kaizen events.
• Responsible for Labor Routings, Capacity Planning, TPM, and Cost Estimating.
• Responsible for Capital justification, CNC/Programming, Tool Design and Selection.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with a minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of progressive, hands on manufacturing engineering experience.
• In the absence of a four (4) degree in engineering, a minimum of seven (7) to ten (10) years experience is required.
• Minimum of one (1) year HVAC Plant Continuous Improvement Manager experience is preferred.
• Experience in low volume, high mix environment is preferred.
• Requires knowledge of formal problem solving methods along with experience with financial controls and product costing.
• Previous experience with new products and process introductions along with a working knowledge of lean manufacturing practices and procedures is also required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite Applications (Word, Excel, Access, & PowerPoint) as well as Internet software and E-mail is required.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD is required for plant layout; Autodesk Inventor knowledge is desired.
• The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 40 pounds.