Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities

This position supports Plant Manufacturing and Technical Operations while maintaining a strong focus on continual Process Improvement and Optimization.

Applies fundamental knowledge of basic principles, theories and concepts of industry standards and practices to design, automate, modify, or develop facilities, testing, machines, equipment or processes used in processing or manufacturing products.Qualifications

Essential Functions:

• Improve processes and equipment to drive uptime higher while reducing scrap in various production operations including winding, coating, HGRC, ORC and twisting.
• Develop new processes for new products.

This may be new designs of products, or using new materials for current designs, or utilizing new equipment.
• Must have some mechanical ability to adjust tooling for the design and materials used and to increase performance.
• Evaluate and optimize processes and equipment to generate cost savings, and improve quality, efficiency and productivity.

Will need to work closely with Production,

EH&S, QA, Maintenance, and outside vendors.
• Develop new processes, research emerging technologies, and execute characterization and optimization studies of current processes using design of experiments, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, Lean Six Sigma tools, and other data-driven decision-making tools.
• Identify and resolve equipment/material/training/process issues and coordinate activities of maintenance, quality, production and other resources to execute cost effective solutions.
• Will need to balance multiple projects simultaneously while driving forward progress.
• Provide subject matter expertise to other departments.
• 24/5+ support of manufacturing lines.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience
• Bachelor of Science (or higher) in Engineering.

Preferred degrees in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering.
• 2+ years of experience in process engineering role preferred.
• Hands-on process engineering experience in high volume manufacturing environment preferred.
• Process troubleshooting experience preferred.
• Lean six sigma experience preferred.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong mechanical aptitude.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong degree of creativity.
• Self-starter with initiative and a strong work ethic.
• Knowledge of plant safety procedures.
• Strong team player when collaborating with internal and external team members.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical demands required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
 use hands and fingers
 handle and/or feel and reach with hands and arms
 required to stand and walk required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk and hear
 occasionally required...