What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Engineer - Foundry position at Precision Castparts?
Responsibilities
- Utilize lean manufacturing tools to streamline operations throughout plant via changes to workstation layout, material handling, or processing.
- Write area Standard Operating Procedures and Engineering Procedures as required and review operator training procedures.
- Develop protocol for qualifying new operators.
- Initiate process trials to determine most cost-effective way to deliver a quality part to our customers.
- Develop scorecard for quality metrics defined by Eastlake Handling scrap category.
- Develop additional daily metrics as needed to reduce scrap, rework and process variation
- Develop plans to improve operator related scrap and communicate improvement timeline to management.
- Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that gets along with customers, clients, co-workers, and supervisors.
- Position supports all shifts and candidate must demonstrate a willingness to work any shift required when the need arises.
- Confer with engineering, quality, manufacturing, outside vendors and other representatives, including customers, in planning, scheduling, coordinating and implementing NPI’s (fixture requirements etc).
- Audit and continuously improve snag/CNC processes and product produced by those processes to reduce variation seen at finishing, visual and dimensional.
- Assure reliability of the process.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, or other related Engineering discipline.
- Experience in using Lean Manufacturing tools like Kaizen, TPM, 6S, Standard Work, Kan-Ban, Poka-Yoke.
- Experience performing time studies a plus.
- Basic knowledge of production processes, machine tooling and operations, hand tools and automation concepts and practices required.
- Expertise in use of Microsoft Office Products (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access) required.