Manufacturing Engineer

Who We Are

PAC is a leading global provider of advanced analytical instruments for laboratories and process environments in hydrocarbon processing industries.

Customers choose PAC's instruments to provide the cutting-edge technology required to maintain regulatory compliance and to improve productivity.

Your Role

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible to assure the effective utilization of equipment and materials with an objective of maximizing production output while maintaining safety, quality and cost standards.

This hands-on position will support ongoing manufacturing with a strong emphasis on implementing and sustaining lean process improvements, ensuring process capability, and process repeatability.

The position also has a key role in analysis and development of insource/outsource decisions and supplier processes meeting expectations for outsourced decisions.


* Develop, evaluate, implement, improve and document manufacturing equipment, tooling and processes.


* Implement and sustain Lean Manufacturing techniques and training on the shop floor.


* Use appropriate statistical techniques such as DOE, ANOVA, GR&R, and other Six Sigma tools in project work.


* Utilize appropriate statistical techniques in process development to identify and ensure new products and existing products meet necessary capabilities such as calculating Cp and Cpk for processes.


* Research, justify and implement capital expenditures and point-of-use materials systems, Kanbans, and other techniques to improve utilization of working capital.


* Team with planning and design staff concerning product design and tooling to ensure efficient production processes as well as process reliability.


* Manage and track several on-going cost savings projects and eliminate non-value-added activities.


* Implement process and product improvements resulting in a positive impact on production cycle time, product costs and product quality.


* Analyze and plan work force utilization, space requirements, and workflow and design layout of equipment and workspace for optimum efficiency and safety.


* Estimate production process step times, staffing requirements and related costs to provide information for management decisions using tools such as Takt time calculations.


* Provide technical direction, and training for operators performing detailed process steps to ensure that production assemblers, testers, inspectors and support staff have necessary skills, appropriate documentation, tooling and process control capability.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:


* Able to travel (generally less than 15%, however, special projects may require higher as needed.)

PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP:

Team Leadership:


* Carry out project leadership and capable of influencing team members to complete project tasks in a timely manner to support project goals.


* Capable of carrying a team to a performing phase and bringing cross-fu...