MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Job Description

Job description

General Information – Primary objectives

Manufacturing Engineer is accountable for improving and maintaining first pass yield for specified parts and/or processes. This is accomplished by driving continuous improvement initiatives, process development/modification, documentation of standards/best practices, and equipment onboarding/troubleshooting. Candidate shall also support cross functional initiatives with Production, Quality and Purchasing departments to meet company goals and product quality standards.

Scope of Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

Troubleshooting of quality issues throughout the production process: welding, brazing, nickel plating, cleaning, and borescope inspection. Additional processes: bending.

Use continuous improvement and lean techniques to increase production efficiency, eliminate waste, and drive cost savings opportunities.

Support production staff with specification/technical knowledge, inspection techniques, weld/braze consumables management and day-to-day trouble shooting efforts.

Documentation and standardization of processes via work instructions and operating instructions to increase efficiency, facilitate cross-training and enable proper equipment usage.

Equipment and tooling on-boarding into production process to support new product, process efficiency, ergonomics or safety. Basic troubleshooting, light-level repair and/or export of orbital weld machines, orbital weld heads, steam cleaning machines, tungsten grinders etc.

Effective communication with production employees, management staff and cross-functional team to ensure the alignment of efforts to meet company goals.

Conduct classes and trainings to support continuous improvements efforts and product quality i.e. Visual Inspection and Back-to-Basics courses.

Manage operator qualifications to ensure production staff is qualified to perform given tasks.

Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented team environment.

Ability to read, interpret, translate engineering drawings and customer specifications to drive compliance.

Excellent team player with a great attitude.

Additional duties & customer/manufacturing support activities listed below but not limited to:

Define and evaluate new equipment and the implementation.

Cell Design/Re-Design

Research and Development

Listen to inputs from production, management, quality, planning and purchasing personnel and use those inputs to improve the process

Accountabilities

Support of Team Goals, Represent company as process expert, requisition tooling and equipment for processes.

Performance Measurement & Performance Evaluation

Meet team quarterly objectives. Adherence to goals and behaviors associate with achieving them:

First pass yield

Process compliance (welding, bending, brazing, chemical)

Project completion/execution

Aging (units over lead-time)

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Employee assistance program

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Schedule:

8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

Elmwood Park, NJ 07407: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: One location