Manufacturing EngineerThe Manufacturing Engineer, working under the direction of the Manufacturing Engineering Manager with minimum supervision, is responsible for maintaining product delivery and quality requirements. This can include; RCCA, PFMEA support, Manufacturing Instructions, implementation of process improvements, and daily involvement in production support.
Responsibilities:- Prepares Manufacturing Engineering, modifications/improvements to Tool Design, Tool Fabrication and activity schedules required to assure conformance to contract delivery requirements.
- Creates CAD models, drawings, and work instructions meeting customer specifications and delivery commitments
- Designs and develops improvements/make-new to tooling, processes, and procedures to support manufacture of composite parts and assemblies including mold tools, drill fixtures, and assembly tools
- Provide sustaining engineering as required; maintain and improve company's competitive position by identifying, justifying, and implementing manufacturing improvements.
- Assist in development of technical portions of new business proposals including selection of manufacturing methods and production processes, selection of tooling, and definition of costs required to implement.
- Perform make verses buy analyses and provide related recommendations to management.
- Create and maintain records, data schedules and other pertinent information as required.
- Provide ME support to Lean activities, cellular standardization and continuous improvement efforts as required.
- May assist in structuring departmental budgets.
- Conducts producibility studies to evaluate production process reliability and provide appropriate recommendations.
- Prepares specification of production operations, prepares vendor instructions for operations sourced outside the company and defines tooling requirements and issuance of tool orders to Tool Fabrication department.
- Interact with customer organizations including, tool and product configuration and manufacturing tolerances that affect producibility, cost and schedules.
- Perform other duties as assigned. Accomplish related results as needed.
Education and Experience:- Bachelor's degree in a related technical field required and 3 years related experience preferred.
- Must be able to read blueprints, technical drawings, bills of material, assembly instructions utilized to build units, assemblies, and parts.
- Broad knowledge of a general technical field such as mechanical or aerospace engineering.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Proficiency with CAD software (SolidWorks preferred), ERP systems (Epicor preferred) and general office applications (MS Office preferred)
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
- Ability to work hands on within the production environment
- Ability to work effectively with internal and external customers
