Manufacturing Engineer

The Manufacturing Engineer provides engineering support in the areas of manufacturing processes, process documentation, manufacturing engineering, systems, procedures, equipment, tooling, and facilities. This position leads moderate to complex engineering assignments and projects with multiple departmental interactions regarding all manufacturing processes

 

1. Work safely to prevent on the job injuries by following Company and OSHA safety rules and regulations, understanding machine safeguards, recognizing and reporting safety hazards, wearing required PPE. 

2. Provide manufacturing engineering support in the areas of fixture design, part inspection, process automation, CNC programming, and Fanuc robotics. 

3. Utilize problem solving skills to analyze manufacturing difficulties to determine root cause and define corrective actions. 

4. Implement and revise manufacturing documentation for machine work instructions, troubleshooting, tooling tables, and inspection sheets.  Maintain structured database to ensure documents are appropriately organized.  

5. Writes technical reports to document engineering analysis and findings.  Ability to use pivot tables to sort through data.  Use of Excel for data analysis and PowerPoint for presenting reports.

6. Produce accurate engineering drawings using CAD for fixtures and tooling. 

7. Participate in operational and financial analysis to recommend new tooling and equipment to provide improved manufacturing processes, increased quality and reduced cost. 

8. Provide manufacturing engineering support in the areas of machine availability, OEE, performance, cost, machine capability, throughput, and on‐time delivery.

9.  Provide leadership, direction, technical support, training and assistance to other manufacturing staff members.  Work closely with manufacturing technicians and maintenance staff to ensure down machines are quickly brought back into production.

10.  Perform other duties as assigned .

70% of time spent on the production floor.

 

Occasionally required to stand, walk or sit; use hands to grasp, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; use fingers to touch, pick or pinch objects; reach with hands and arms; push or pull; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; use foot or leg controls; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds. For all jobs no one should lift over 50lbs on their own. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.