Manufacturing Engineer

Job Title: MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Location: US-FL-TAMARAC

Overview:
The Manufacturing Engineer will oversee the design of production machinery and will identify and recommend solutions to production problems related to materials, processes, and tooling.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures new and existing processes are safe for employees, ergonomically correct, and are in compliance with OSHA requirements
• Continuously strives for product and process improvements that meet or exceed customer requirements. Develops systems and methods for ensuring quality such as: In-process controls, FMEA, SPC, and Process Capability Analysis and DOE
• Ensures new and existing processes make good use of resources and are in compliance with environmental regulations
• Represents manufacturing on product development projects, leads all manufacturing elements in plan development and implementation. Primary NPD duties include: Process definition, process capability analysis, tool and gauge development and acquisition, work instruction development, special process training of shop employees, capital equipment acquisition and implementation, influence design for manufacturing and assembly, cost estimating, workstation design, floor layout planning and development, process routing and engineering labor standards, and standardization of tooling
• Leads, develops, evaluates, and improves manufacturing methods in support of company objectives. Works with production personnel, production supervision, and materials management, to implement lean manufacturing tools and philosophy
• Leads, manages and coordinates capital equipment acquisition and improvement projects
• Analyzes and manages the company???s efforts to maximize facility use by recommending physical plant modifications or additions, floor space design, and machine and equipment placement in support of manufacturing department objectives
• Consults with design engineering staff, purchasing, and suppliers concerning product design, tooling, and the purchase of materials, parts, and/or equipment. Consults with production leadership and shop associates concerning process improvements
• Ability to uncover areas in the manufacturing environment that would lend itself to automate. Skills include designing, building, implementing small automation projects internally. Larger automation projects would often be leveraged with outside vendor, where this role would be leading the project, training, implementation, and being the onsite expert
• Participate in the development of production metrics such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and total effective equipment performance (TEEP)
• Supports lean initiatives to improve efficiency throughout the organization
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent
• 2+ years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
• Project management experience
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, both oral and written
• Ability to lead teams both direct and indirectly
• Ability to understand company vision and apply it at the detail level

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