Lead Manufacturing Engineer

Eaton’s IS AER FMC division is currently seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer in our Los Angeles, California facility! This is an onsite, Monday - Friday role, aligned to a 1st shift schedule.

With almost 300 employees, the Los Angeles facility designs and manufactures quality valves, regulators, and other fluid controls used mostly by the Aerospace Industry.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $107812.53 - $158125.04 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What You’ll Do

The Lead Manufacturing Engineer role includes the processes, tooling, and equipment to support the production of the fluid controls and actuation product line. This role will provide technical support and implement Lean Manufacturing principles in a production environment. You should have the ability to address technical issues through a problem solving framework with a focus on root cause, containment, and long term solutions. To provide methods of cost reduction for production and production-related activities.

In This Role You Will

• Implement Lean Manufacturing principles and utilize Six Sigma methodologies to develop and maintain robust manufacturing processes in order to increase productivity, reduce variation, and eliminate waste
• Utilize technical skills to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to product non-conformance and performance test failures for hydraulic, pneumatic, and electro-mechanical products. Go to management
• Lead root cause and correction action for manufacturing issues by utilizing problem solving tools such as 8D analysis and PFMEA’s
• Identify, analyze, and implement cost reduction and productivity improvement projects in a production environment
• Ability to work on a cross-functional team to execute projects and ensure internal and external customer satisfaction
• Serve as a technical focal point to operators, team leaders, and other engineers. Serve as a technical contact with internal and external customers, manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, quality assurance, product support, material, and suppliers insuring their satisfaction
• Develop process plans, fixtures, and tooling in support of Continuous Improvement Processes
• Research, recommend, and execute capital equipment projects
• Ensure processes meet Environmental, Safety, and Health (MESH) & regulatory requirements
• Analyze data from OEM returned products, and implement improvements to increase the processing yield and quality of the components, minimizing the number of returned units
• Analyze data from mechanical components to implement improvements to increase the producibility of the components, minimizing the assembly and test cycle times
• Technical expertise on hydraulic and pneumatic products with emphasis on producibility and first time pass
• Collaborate with peers and management to determine key goals and objectives, and corresponding metrics, to be completed during a determined period (usually one year). Review and amend these actions as appropriate. Focus on timely achievement of these goals and objectives
  
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited institution is required
• Minimum five years experience in a manufacturing environment
• This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Only candidates in the immediate geographic area (50 mile radius) of Los Angeles, CA will be considered
  
  
  

Preferred Criteria

• Previous aerospace experience
• Masters degree in engineering
  
  
  

Position Criteria

• Experience with assembly and test operations of hydraulic, pneumatic, or electro-mechanical products.
• Experience in Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen or other Continuous Improvement Processes.
• Experience with MRP systems.
• Familiarity/experience with Six Sigma & Problem Solving methodologies
• Experience with working on cross-functional teams.
• Good technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with computer based methods and tools.
  
  
  

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