Responsibilities

Reporting to the Vice President, the Manufacturing Process Engineer will be responsible for the following:

• Providing ongoing assessments and improvements in Dowa's manufacturing processes and efficiencies.
• Increasing profitability through process improvements and optimization of equipment and technology.
• Identifying improvement opportunities and cost resources/burdens.
• Partnering with other functional areas to establish output expectations, durable resources needed, systems support, and overall costing expectations.
• Assists and/or leads the design of processes for product changes, new products; testing and evaluating as is necessary.
• Assists in the re-engineering of processes to improve any workforce ergonomic issue in the plant.
• Acts as project lead for process improvments, Kaizens, or Quality Corrective Actions. Identify KPI's, milestones, and costing estimates for each related project.
• Works to eliminate or reduce scrap through partnership with Quality and Production by idenfiying Root Cause, as well as remediation strategies.
• Partners with the team to identify performance errors impacting product quality and output.
• Acts as a driving proponent for all EHS practices and processes.
• Interacts with customers and sales on new process design, current improvement, and efficiency efforts.

Qualifications

This is a new position to the organization and has a Production Operations Specialist as direct reports. The successful candidate will have:

• An undergraduate degree in an engineering field of study.
• A minimum of five years experience in an engineering capacity in a production environment.
• Working knowledge of process improvement methodologies, protocols, strategies, disciplines.
• Exposure to Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing practices, quality standards and implementations, Root Cause Analysis, etc.
• Reading comprehension of drawings/schematics/blueprints for equipment.

 The target salary for this position is up to $120,000, plus a zero deductible health care plan, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, 3 weeks PTO to start, 401(k) with match, etc. We have an outstanding team at Dowa, we respect each other and support each other always. Come be a part of the adventure.