Senior Process Engineer

Main Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day shop floor production activities revolving around hard chrome plating, cadmium-titanium plating and nickel plating.
• Evaluate and determine process weaknesses and create solutions.
• Provide technical expertise and support to grit blast, plating, and grinder operators, lab, and management.
• Partner with Tooling Process Engineer to test new tooling and improve existing tooling and fixtures.
• Optimize work methods, processes, and tooling to improve efficiency and decrease operational costs and turn times for electro-plating process.
• Develop and revise surface finishing techniques and work instructions to facilitate production.
• Develop training programs from existing sources tailored for Strongsville facility needs.
• Assist in training of other employees as needed.
• Evaluate and internally certify operators for each surface finishing process.
• Lead activities necessary for process qualification with clients.
• Participate in internal and external process audits, such as for AS9100 and NADCAP.

Requirements

Accredited University or College degree in technical field is desired. 5 years experience in manufacturing (ideally aerospace), specifically in surface finishing/plating. Experience with process implementation and continuous improvement. Knowledge of plating processes (chrome, nickel, cadmium), specifications and NADCAP requirements. Understand and implement client process specifications such as BAC, AMS and MIL STD. Understand and interpret complex engineering drawings and blueprints. Experience training shop personnel. Ability to write technical procedures and training documents. Basic understanding of statistics and chemistry as a tool to evaluate process performance.