Manufacturing Engineer

About Us:

How many companies can say they've been in business for over 177 years?!

Here at ZEISS, we certainly can! As the pioneers of science, ZEISS handles the everchanging environments in a fast-paced world, meeting it with cutting edge of technologies and continuous advancements.

ZEISS believes that innovation and technology are the key to a sustainable future and solutions for global change.

We have a diverse range of portfolios throughout the ZEISS family in segments like, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology, Consumer Markets and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology.

We are a global company with over 42,000 employees and have over 4,000 in the US and Canada alone! Make a difference, come join the team!

What's the role?

JOB SUMMARY:

The Manufacturing Engineer will lead the transition of new products from Development into sustained Manufacturing and support products through the lifecycle.

Apply Engineering principles to analyze, develop and implement Engineering Change Orders and/or Deviations to document all changes to production process, tools or parts in accordance with GMP and ISO quality requirements.

Sound Interesting?

Here's what you'll do:

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

(Responsibilities that are central to the job and MUST be performed either unaided, or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation, ref.

ADA.)


* Development of new manufacturing technology to increase production capacity, enable future product technology introduction and decrease cost of production maintaining high quality and environmental protection and work safety standards.


* Identify improvement potentials for production processes (capacity analysis, lead time analysis) and cost of production (labor efficiency, material yield rate, other costs).


* Develop new technology in a structured approach based on business case analysis.


* Integrate best practices regarding safety and ergonomics in production workstations.


* Work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of product, process, and/or data requires an identification and gathering of relevant factors


* Performance improvement of installed manufacturing technology at the Chesterfield Site applying continuous improvement, lean, 6 sigma or other methods.


* Improve Overall Equipment Efficiency of existing manufacturing equipment by means of a structured approach (reduce gap between real output and theoretical output), jointly with production


* Optimize capacity of existing manufacturing equipment (increase theoretical output).


* Continuously track production capacity.


* Design and construct or specify and purchase electrical, mechanical and/or software tools and fixtures for performing various tasks in a safe, efficient, repeatable and cost-effective manner.

Perform tooling qualification.


* Continuously and proactively seek cost reduction opportunities without compromising quality or on-time delivery


* Responsible for leading trou...