Manufacturing Engineer

Goulds Pumps Ipg - Seneca Falls, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Seneca Falls, NY

About the position

The Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer at ITT Goulds Pumps will play a crucial role in supporting manufacturing assembly lines and production areas. This position involves collaboration with various teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, and productivity. The engineer will be responsible for designing and procuring necessary tools and fixtures, exploring new machining technologies, and implementing lean manufacturing projects.

Responsibilities

• Strategic alignment with production, quality, finance, and other key stakeholders to implement lean manufacturing projects.
• Design, develop, and procure the necessary fixtures, equipment, or tools necessary for assembly operations.
• Collaborate with engineering, programming, and operations to explore new machining technology and acquire new advanced CNC machines integrated with automated solutions.
• Perform and document root cause analysis.
• Participate in Gemba walks and act on escalations by implementing engineering solutions.
• Employ Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques to increase manufacturing capacity, productivity, and overall operational effectiveness.
• Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.
• Develop and maintain standard work instructions for the various production areas.
• Ability to read and create CAD models, with exposure to Creo Pro-E preferred.
• Perform Design of Experiments (DOE) to optimize manufacturing processes.
• Provide manufacturing decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs.
• Communicate with programmers, production management, machinists, operators, and engineering to achieve solutions to both capacity planning and quality level.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years of manufacturing engineering experience.
• Minimum 2-5 years of experience implementing lean projects.
• Strong knowledge of assembly operations.
• Knowledge of machining fundamentals and processes.
• Lean/Six Sigma experience.
• Familiar with Creo Pro E and/or other design software.
• General computer experience, including MS Office (Excel, Teams, Word, PowerPoint).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Creative problem solver with great attention to detail.

Nice-to-haves

• CNC Programming experience not required but preferred.
• Familiarity with Lean and Kaizen techniques.