Manufacturing Engineer

About the position

This position is a fundamental part of our engineering team in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. We are looking for a self-motivated individual with proven project experience, as well as someone who exhibits the drive for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Create work instructions and related documentation and ensure they are current, accurate and understood by the team.
• Identify, prepare and implement improvement opportunities that support optimum production and quality levels.
• Conduct root cause and other forms of analysis for entire product level tool category.
• Point of contact for Quality/Engineering for new product launches, service request, quality requests, or any other task related to your specific product category.
• Prepare recommendations/analyses for the development of new and/or improved processes that support optimum production and quality levels.
• Analyze capital expenditures and project designs to help find ways to cut costs.
• Prepare equipment/process improvement analysis and cost justifications for necessary capital equipment and other manufacturing expense spending.
• Conduct capability and time studies and implement improvement plans.
• Coordinate, perform and troubleshoot equipment, tooling and fixture installation and maintenance.
• Source and utilize outside suppliers that support quality and production levels.
• Measure and track key process information used to direct resources.
• Ensure the transfer of information to appropriate shift and plant-wide personnel.
• Monitor and review budget and forecast and factor into daily decisions.
• Develop best practices, routines and innovative solutions to improve production rates and quality of output.
• Participate in Kaizen and project engineering within the facility.
• Act as technical resource for manufacturing and maintenance and as a backup for shift Supervisors as needed.
• Contribute to team effort by performing related tasks as needed to assist in overall business unit goals.
• Stay current with METCO business including present and future trends.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering.
• Minimum of five (5) years manufacturing engineering experience. Supervisory experience helpful.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication, organizational, time management and interpersonal skills.
• Must have high level of self-initiative and have proven 'start-to-finish' project management skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of production systems and techniques (must be able to learn and apply METCO management tools). Must be able to problem solve and use root cause analysis.
• Computer knowledge and skills required.