About this role
The Manufacturing Engineer will oversee and improve manufacturing processes. The responsibilities include identifying areas for improvement, maintaining high levels of manufacturing and product quality, designing new products and processes, as well as ensuring cost-efficiency and conformance with regulatory standards.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or related field. (Preferred)
Experience:
- 1-3 years of experience in similar position or production.
Background
- Knowledge and practice of problem-solving methods (8D, 5 whys, others).
- Coordination and participation in product and process validation activities Management of measurement tools
- English/Spanish proficiency (writing and verbal).
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and to reduce costs. The successful candidate must be able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.
Competencies
- Drive for Results.
- Delegation & Accountability.
- Prioritizing & Aligning Resources.
- Select, Develop, & Motivate Others.
- Continuous Improvement.
- Communicating & Influencing.
- Building Teams & Teamwork.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate existing processes, designs, and layouts to determine areas of waste, safety hazards, and opportunities for improvement
- Identify tooling and equipment needs for manufacturing processes
- Work directly with quality, purchasing and production to identify, understand, and correct design or process flaws
- Develop tools to capture and maintain metrics to monitor process control and performance
- Analyze data to derive improvement opportunities and initiate engineering changes
- Document work processes and recommend process improvements
- Support a variety of in-house organizations in continual improvement, problem investigations, safety, and documentation
- Report project status updates and measures to management
- Develops manufacturing processes by studying product requirements, researching testing methods, and conferring with equipment vendors.
- Improves manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning workflow, space requirements, and equipment layout.
- Assures product and process quality by designing testing methods.
- Provides manufacturing engineering information by answering questions and requests.
- Maintains product and company reputation by complying with government regulations.
- Keeps equipment operational by coordinating maintenance and repair services.
- Maintains product and process databases by writing computer programs and entering data.
- Completes design and development projects by training and guiding technicians.