Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Job Position: Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Location: East Aurora NY
Office Space: Available at location listed
Number of Openings: 2
Salary: $79955 to $147618/Year

Industry: Aerospace / Aviation / Defense
Job Category: Engineering Industrial / Manufacturing

Company Overview:
Our client is a worldwide leader in advanced flight controls and actuation for commercial and military aircraft. They supply highly reliable systems that are supportable and add significant value for their customers.

Position Summary:
The Senior Manufacturing Engineer plays a critical role in supporting the Prismatic (Complex Milling) Manufacturing Group located in East Aurora NY. The primary responsibility is to support the development of new product/development processes and apply new manufacturing technologies to existing or mature production programs. This role involves performing challenging and nonroutine manufacturing engineering work and driving results through the application of standard engineering techniques and procedures. Additionally the Senior Manufacturing Engineer will provide support to other aircraft facilities worldwide as required.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and develop new and emerging technologies in manufacturing engineering.
• Coordinate Design for Manufacturing efforts amongst various development engineering groups.
• Determine manufacturing procedures operation sequencing prepare tooling and gauge lists create and prove out N/C programs write detailed operations sheets and work instructions for producing complex machined parts and subassemblies.
• Support and improve mature programs through CAD/CAM custom macros and manual coding.
• Prepare monitor and update engineered or estimated time standards for set up and run hours man to machine ratios and economic run quantities for each components processes.
• Provide cost estimates for new business capture and process improvement efforts.
• Collaborate with various disciplines including engineers technicians operations quality personnel and external suppliers to solve processrelated problems.
• Support production automated manufacturing cells to achieve process stability and reduced attended labor.
• Some international and/or domestic travel as required.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of Manufacturing Engineering experience with increasing responsibility.
• Bachelor of Science Degree (Manufacturing Mechanical Industrial Engineering or Technology preferred).
• CAD/CAM CNC programming experience required (NX preferred).
• Strong CNC Milling machine processing tooling and programming (4 and 5 axis machining) experience required.
• Access to US exportcontrolled information.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Progressive thinker and selfstarter to advance current methodologies and technologies.
• Lean mindset and leadership skills to drive change towards a Lean factory and Standardized Work.
• Strong tooling and/or fixture design experience.
• Experience developing automated and advanced manufacturing systems.
• Program management training and experience.

Skills and Certifications (bold skills and certification are required):

• CAD/CAM CNC programming experience required (NX preferred)
• CNC Milling machine processing tooling and programming (4 and 5 axis machining)
• Manufacturing Engineering experience