Westinghouse Electric Company - Hopkins, SC
posted 3 months ago
About the position
As a Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer at Westinghouse Electric Company, you will play a crucial role in supporting the mission to provide clean energy solutions. This position involves working closely with production planning and operations to ensure the safe manufacture of nuclear fuel for power plants. You will analyze existing systems and processes to identify both value-added and non-value-added activities, addressing design challenges effectively. Your responsibilities will also include evaluating new and existing processes, equipment, and materials, which will serve as inputs for scheduling methods, performance metrics, and financial standards. Upholding the company's reputation is paramount, and you will be expected to deliver innovative solutions while adhering to commitments made to government regulators. In this role, you will identify opportunities to prevent waste and inefficiency during production. You will research and test design ideas to determine their feasibility, utilizing lean manufacturing, kaizen, and Six Sigma methodologies to support innovation, corrective actions, and improvements. Your tasks will include designing and developing robust manufacturing concepts aimed at simplifying and improving processes while ensuring best practices are followed. You will also create and maintain required product specifications, preventative maintenance, and procedures for manufacturing processes. Collaboration with quality engineering will be essential to address materials that deviate from normal manufacturing processes, and you will work with manufacturing areas both upstream and downstream to ensure timely product flow through the manufacturing floor. Tracking Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for your assigned areas and driving changes to improve OEE will be part of your responsibilities, as well as working with area managers to track the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) and implement process improvements to eliminate scrap and rework processes.
Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities for preventing waste and inefficiency during production
- Research and test design ideas to determine feasibility, utilizing lean manufacturing, kaizen and Six Sigma to formulate and support innovation, corrective actions, and improvements
- Design and develop robust manufacturing concepts to simplify and improve processes and ensure best practices
- Create and maintain required product specifications, preventative maintenance, and procedures for manufacturing processes
- Work with quality engineering to disposition material that has deviated from normal manufacturing processes
- Collaborate with manufacturing areas upstream and downstream of your processes to ensure timely product flow through the manufacturing floor
- Track Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for your assigned areas, and drive changes to help improve OEE
- Work with area manager to track Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) and implement process improvements to help eliminate scrap and rework processes in your area(s)
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline (mechanical preferred)
- 0-3 years experience
- In-depth understanding of lean manufacturing principles
- Hands-on experience building small prototypes
- Proficiency with analytical tools, workflow time studies, and process balancing
- Ability to collaborate with program managers, manufacturing leads, customers, and functional leads, and to provide daily direction and guidance to other process engineers, and operators
- Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Nice-to-haves
- Nuclear experience preferred, but not required
- Three (3) positions are available, and any level of experience will be considered
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
- 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
- Paid Vacations and Holidays
- Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
- Educational Reimbursement Program
- Employee Referral Program
