Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Position Overview

The Project Manager must have strong leadership, accountability, organizational and communication skills. Additionally, he/she must have a fully functional understanding of both traditional machining and the special processes used in manufacturing the complex machined components used in Aerospace, Military, Oil and Gas and Industrial applications. Additionally, a successful individual in the role will have the skills to communicate up and down the supply chain to facilitate meeting the customer’s delivery and quality expectations.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Gathering, organizing and reporting project status to the commercial customer and all relevant internal customers (ie: executive leadership, plant leadership, outside suppliers)
• Leading, both formally and informally across all functional areas of the internal organization.
• Constant monitoring of all elements of the New Job Launch project’s implementation including:
• “Hands-on” in New Job Launch activities, from preparation through delivery
• Facilitating resolution of manufacturing issues related to fixturing/tooling/programming where necessary, while understanding and respecting organizational lines of responsibility and communication.
• Facilitating resolution of quality/inspection related issues by communicating with quality assurance staff and the customer on when required.
• Driving awareness across the enterprise.
• Communicating schedule-related items to appropriate people in operation, scheduling, planning/purchasing, supplier management and quality assurance roles
• Identifying needs for special action when standard action is not meeting project goals. Communicating those needs appropriately.
• Solving problems during the NJSU project implementation
• Technical: through drawing and specification interpretation.
• With the customer, in the office and on the shop floor.
• Financial: Seek to prevent cost overruns by monitoring project costs and addressing issues as they appear.
• Schedule: resolve conflicts of limited resources throughout the supply chain
• Financial Reporting
• Manage, track, and report NJSU group cost as compared to plan.
• Evaluate and project expected unit cost in production and report to executive management
• Supporting high probability “project” quotes based on needed requirements.
• Participate in site visits and teleconferences to help win orders.
• Generate ideas for manufacturing methodologies.
• Gather as much up front data as possible to optimize project start up.
• All other duties as reasonably assigned.
• Support of the company Core Value and Core Focus

Qualifications and skills

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as engineering is desirable
• Experience: Must have +10 years of experience in an equivalent role within a manufacturing organization
• Skills and competencies: Must have strong manufacturing skills, CADCAM knowledge, blueprint reading skills (including GD&T), and solid communication and leadership skills

Type

Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Full Time, 1st Shift (5am-3:30pm, M-F)

Company

Trace-A-Matic

Location

Brookfield, WI

Trace-A-Matic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

EOE/M/F/D/V.