Manufacturing Engineer

Johnson Outdoors - Old Town, ME

Full-time - Mid Level

Old Town, ME

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

As a Manufacturing Engineer at Johnson Outdoors Inc., you will play a crucial role in creating, specifying, and validating manufacturing processes that are simple to moderately complex. Your primary objective will be to achieve productivity, quality, cost, and organizational goals. You will optimize the footprint and flow of manufacturing activities by implementing lean concepts, which will promote efficiency, quality, and effectiveness in the production environment. In this position, you will be responsible for creating metrics and measuring manufacturing performance and standards while identifying bottlenecks in equipment and process flow. Ensuring the application of ergonomics, workflow, and accident prevention measures will be essential to maintain the efficient and safe utilization of plant facilities. You will also plan the effective utilization of production facilities and employees to maximize output and minimize waste. Your role will involve developing and proactively initiating process improvement actions aimed at enhancing quality and delivery while reducing process variation and waste. Acting as a liaison between manufacturing and engineering/R&D staff, you will address issues related to product design, troubleshooting, functional requirements, quality, and efficiency. Additionally, you will provide project management support to implement new or improve existing products or processes, perform layout designs, and document process specifications and instructions. Participation in new product development processes will also be a key aspect of your responsibilities, where you will provide guidance on enhancements and processes while ensuring compliance with established industry safety and design standards.

Responsibilities

• Creates, specifies and validates simple to moderately complex manufacturing processes to achieve productivity, quality, cost and organizational objectives.
• Optimizes the footprint and flow of manufacturing activities through the implementation of lean concepts to promote efficiency, quality and effectiveness.
• Creates metrics and measures manufacturing performance and standards while identifying equipment and process flow bottlenecks.
• Ensures application of ergonomics, workflow and accident prevention measures to maintain efficient and safe utilization of plant facilities.
• Plans the effective utilization of production facilities and employees.
• Develops and proactively initiates process improvement actions to improve quality and delivery as well as reduce process variation and waste.
• Acts as a liaison between the manufacturing, engineering/R&D staff concerning issues, product design, troubleshooting, functional requirements, quality and efficiency.
• Provides project management support to implement new or improve existing products or processes.
• Performs layout designs and documentation to specify process specifications, instructions and processes.
• Participates in the new product development processes, and provides guidance on enhancements and processes.
• Ensures compliance with established industry safety and design standards and guidelines.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering or equivalent.
• Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of experience as a manufacturing engineer including experience analyzing and creating manufacturing processes that increase quality, cost and efficiency.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes, concepts, practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of modern flow manufacturing methods and techniques used in a fast-paced assembly environment.
• Ability to design and build jigs and fixtures.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), engineering related computer systems/applications or equivalent.
• Proficiency in using computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software such as ProE, AutoCAD or SolidWorks.
• Good written, verbal and interpersonal communications skills to interact with and motivate diverse groups of people and create technical documents.
• Skills in identifying the root cause within a manufacturing environment, problem solve and develop appropriate corrective actions.
• Understanding of quality and risk management.
• Understanding of basic electronics and physics.
• Ability to travel as required by the hiring location.