Manufacturing Engineer

Precision Castparts - Wickliffe, OH

Full-time - Entry Level

Wickliffe, OH

10,001+ employees

Primary Metal Manufacturing

About the position

The Manufacturing Engineer position at SMP/Eastlake focuses on utilizing lean manufacturing tools to enhance operational efficiency within the plant. The role involves developing and implementing standard operating procedures, conducting process trials, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure quality and reliability in manufacturing processes. The engineer will also be responsible for maintaining a positive work atmosphere and supporting all shifts as needed.

Responsibilities

• Utilize lean manufacturing tools to streamline operations throughout the plant via changes to workstation layout, material handling, or processing.
• Write area Standard Operating Procedures and Engineering Procedures as required and review operator training procedures.
• Develop protocol for qualifying new operators.
• Initiate process trials to determine the most cost-effective way to deliver a quality part to customers.
• Develop scorecard for quality metrics defined by Eastlake Handling scrap category.
• Develop additional daily metrics as needed to reduce scrap, rework, and process variation.
• Develop plans to improve operator-related scrap and communicate improvement timeline to management.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that gets along with customers, clients, co-workers, and supervisors.
• Confer with engineering, quality, manufacturing, outside vendors, and other representatives, including customers, in planning, scheduling, coordinating, and implementing NPI's (fixture requirements etc).
• Audit and continuously improve snag/CNC processes and product produced by those processes to reduce variation seen at finishing, visual and dimensional.
• Assure reliability of the process.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or other related Engineering discipline.
• Experience in using Lean Manufacturing tools like Kaizen, TPM, 6S, Standard Work, Kan-Ban, Poka-Yoke.
• Experience performing time studies is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of production processes, machine tooling and operations, hand tools, and automation concepts and practices required.
• Expertise in the use of Microsoft Office Products (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access) required.