Manufacturing Engineer I

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer I 35102

Description:

• Plans, coordinates, and performs manufacturing engineering work for a project or process. Operates in a team environment within either the enterprise product delivery process or the enterprise order fullment process.
• At this level, projects are of limited scope and responsibility; work plans and decisions are made within established guidelines and may be reviewed by
• supervisors and/or managers.
• May assign coordinate and review portions of the work for support personnel and contractors.
• Employee will be responsible for supporting production by hitting safety, quality, delivery, and efficiency goals. This person will need to troubleshoot problems, work within systems to update standards, routings, layouts, and work instructions.
• The successful candidate must be able to communicate well with the assembly team and cross functional support teams.
• It is desired that the employee has an interest in new technologies to improve safety, efficiency, and quality.

Responsibilities:

• Provides support and basic trouble shooting for current operations.
• Investigates, gathers and analyze data for specifically assigned, recurring tasks.
• Establishes routings, methods, layouts, tools, costs, methods documentation, quality plans and labor standards for revisions to current operations and/or new parts or programs of limited scope.
• Identifies and implements cost reduction, quality, safety and ergonomic improvement ideas of limited scope.
• Works with electronic tools to perform engineering functions.
• Develops and implements plans of limited scope to support lean manufacturing through the Company Production System.
• Designs operations layouts to improve material flow and material presentation.
• Participates in team studies related to capacity, energy, productivity and efficiency.
• Implements new manufacturing processes and technology.
• Modifies existing performance pay plans; assists in development of baseline data for new wage performance pay plans.

Shift:

• Hours worked will typically need to support production hours Monday through Friday (6:00 AM to 4:30 PM CST) and sometimes Saturdays.

Skills:

• Improve Safety, Quality, Efficiency, and Delivery through data driven proactive projects.
• Improve departmental Raw in Process (RIP) and Point of Usage (POU) inventory locations to facilitate part replenishment
• Investigate quality issues, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Participate in PFMEA's and Control Plans.
• Apply mistake proofing methodology proactively to high-risk processes and recurring quality nonconformance issues.
• Develop and modify Operator Method Sheets as required.
• Process Engineering Change Notifications using C-Projects.
• Support kitting through the use of SAP Cart.
• Develop and maintain Job Hazard Analyses to create awareness of safe and ergonomic work practices.
• Support Assembly & Manufacturing Execution System (AMES) and all manufacturing equipment in areas assigned.
• Implement 5-S into all areas of responsibility.
• Analyze, specify, procure, and implement production tooling and fixtures for new and existing processes.
• Support multi-functional Quality Improvement Teams tasked with improving overall assembly quality.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Technology, or equivalent experience.

Skills that are desired are:

• Knowledge of Continuous Improvement, Safety, and Ergonomics in Manufacturing.
• Proficiency in MS Office programs.
• Ability and willingness to work off-shift hours.
• Ability and willingness to work overtime upon request.

A strong candidate will have:

• 6months + of Manufacturing Engineering experience
• Proficiency in MP Planner, CREO, Pro-E, AutoCAD, SAP functions, and AMES (software programs).

• Small capital project management and implementation
• Tool and fixture design
• Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, and DMAIC
• Experience in Hydraulics and Mix Model Line Design, and Line Balancing
• Experience relationship building with UAW shop floor employees
• 2 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience.