Hubbellposted about 2 months ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Leeds, AL
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
About the position
Our Connectors Business Unit in Leeds, AL is looking for a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer with strong experience working in a foundry environment (i.e. Green Sand), who will lead capital projects as the main point of contact for multiple functional areas and processes. Will be responsible for machine selection, cell layout, financial justification, working with quality and product engineering to build and update control plans and engineering requirements, overall timeline management, installation of equipment and production startup. The expectation is to take a lead role within our Foundries and make an immediate positive impact.
Responsibilities
- Support a variety of automated pieces of equipment/processes throughout the facility with programming, troubleshooting, and driving Continuous Improvement efforts.
- Support maintenance activities with Electrical and PLC trouble-shooting.
- Develop robotic programs for welding, grinding, fabrication, and integration with CNCs.
- Compile project update reports and present to upper management concerning project timeline, budget and estimated completion dates of projects.
- Build and optimize manufacturing processes for the improvement of existing products and the introduction of new ones using Lean Engineering Tools.
- Assist in developing and implementing cost reduction initiatives through Continuous Improvement (kaizen) events.
- Lead troubleshooting activities for various process issues that arise.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to junior level engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering.
- Must have 5-8 years' experience in Manufacturing.
- Experience leading multi-functional teams and running multiple projects to completion simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of Continuous Improvement methodologies.
- Demonstrated success in justification of capital projects in excess of $1M.
- Knowledge of quality tools.
- Knowledge of best in class assembly practices.
- Knowledge of fabrication processes.
- Strong electrical trouble-shooting knowledge with ladder logic trouble-shooting and programming.
- Must have the ability to travel up to 10%.
