About this role
Overview
Promote lean manufacturing practices with an emphasis on driving continuous improvements: eliminate waste, improve delivered product quality, propose cost and labor reduction initiatives. Design and oversee the construction of weld, assembly, manufacturing, and test fixtures. Troubleshoot product/process issues.
Responsibilities
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities focused on safety, quality, on time delivery and cost.
- Design and produce custom fixtures for production of weldments, manufactured items and assembly and/or work with outside suppliers on fixture requirements and designs.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to optimize new and current products / processes.
- Provide feedback on manufacturability and critical processes to engineering and product development.
- Utilize problem solving techniques to reduce daily work shortfalls and minimize rework activities.
- Leverage statistical analysis to make data driven decisions.
- Assist in troubleshooting existing design and process issues.
- Assist in researching and implementing new technologies and automation in our production equipment and processes.
- Perform tests to verify validity of fixture design.
- Participate in design for manufacturability review.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, manufacturing or industrial engineering and 1-2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment or an equivalent combination of education and experience in process control and troubleshooting (in a medium volume shop).
- Proficient in 3D engineering software.
Skills and Abilities:
- Read, analyze, and interpret a variety of information, such as technical procedures, business correspondence, and governmental regulations furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Create business-level written correspondence and verbally present information to internal and external customers.
- Requires job related software skills, 3D CAD (Solidworks preferred), CAM, Minitab and MS Office as well as ERP and the ability to operate a variety of standard office equipment.
- Aptitude for problem solving.
- Demonstrated ability to work on cross functional teams to help build a World Class Business.
Working Conditions/Physical Demands:
- Regular office environment, approximately 50%.
- Modern production facility/engineering lab with heat and air conditioning approximately 45%.
- Occasional travel including outside of the US less than 10%.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle, or touch; and talk and hear.
- The employee is regularly required to stand, squat and move around to evaluate product and fixtures.
- The employee is required to lift up to 30 pounds, regularly; up to 50 pounds, occasionally.