Manufacturing Engineer

Overview

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Create and maintain work definition for product manufacturing. This includes maintaining routings and validating the accuracy by performing time studies.
• Develop and update work instructions for technicians to use when manufacturing the product.
• Engage in product automation tasks to drive efficiency.
• Work with design engineers to update designs to improve quality, cycle time, and customer satisfaction.
• Responsible for the development of processes and process instructions by studying product requirements; researching, designing, modifying, and testing manufacturing methods and equipment; conferring with equipment vendors
• Provide manufacturing decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs; reviewing production schedules; estimating future requirements
• Design and implement new manufacturing methodologies for material handling, machining, assembly, etc.
• Conduct feasibility studies of processes to determine manufacturing integrity
• Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning work flow
• Interface daily with in-house and customer engineering teams to identify/resolve problems and implement solutions to stabilize product
• Introduce products into the production areas and follow products through the entire process 
• Partner with customer engineers to review, communicate and implement engineering change orders and sustain products with cost reduction and yield improvements
• Provide guidance to technicians or others within the department
• Work independently with minimal supervision and periodically mentor junior engineers.
• Ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, and lift up to 50 lbs.