Manufacturing Engineer 1

Job Description

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY

Responsible for designing, developing, and improving production processes to ensure parts and assemblies are made efficiently, safely, and to quality specifications. Responsibilities include optimizing assembly and machining workflows, implementing lean manufacturing principles, maintaining and troubleshooting equipment, collaborating with other departments, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards.

Essential Functions :

• Sets and reviews engineering specifications, process flows, and other information to understand methods that are applied and activities that take place in the manufacturing process.
• Process Design : Design manufacturing processes, for both ferrous and nonferrous materials, to convert raw materials to finished products. This includes defining the sequence of manufacturing operations, equipment selection and / or equipment design, workholding / fixture design, staffing requirements, subcontract operations, and supporting BOMs and routings.
• Process improvement : Utilizing time studies, Lean philosophies, and Six Sigma techniques, analyzing existing manufacturing processes to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality and manufacturing cost.
• Determines how to manufacture parts or products with maximum efficiency.
• Design, source, assemble, and validate workholding and tools in support of manufacturing operations. Incorporate PLCs, hydraulics, and automation to reduce operator fatigue, error-proof processes and maximize efficiency.
• Write technical requirements and RFPs for supplier quotations.
• Champion business cases and internal cost justifications for capital expenses.
• System and facility design : Conceive, design, and develop new manufacturing systems, equipment layouts, tooling, and fixtures. Maintain factory layout.
• Automation and technology : Identify and implement automation opportunities, using robotics, computer networks, and computer-aided software to streamline workflows and improve data collection.
• Tooling & Fixture Design : Design, source and build fixtures, tools, and other equipment needed for product machining and processing.
• Produce manufacturing process drawings in accordance with ASME Y14.5-2009.
• Coordinates with management personnel regarding manufacturing capabilities.
• Lead PFMEA meetings. Support and contribute to DFMEA activities.
• Ensure that engineering data is properly managed via SolidWorks PDM.
• Responsible for determining requirements, evaluating machinery, and preparing recommendations for machinery purchases.
• Responsible for planning and designing poka-yokes to help equipment operators avoid mistakes or eliminate product defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors as they occur.
• Enacts quality control procedures to resolve production problems or minimize costs.

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