Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Assembly

Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove - the leading manufacturer of luxury kitchen appliances is a longstanding, family-owned company. Icons of design and paragons of performance and quality, Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove are the refrigeration, cooking, and dishwashing specialists found in world’s most luxurious homes. We look for team members who are driven by innovation and excellence, striving to serve our customers by doing what is right—with integrity, teamwork, and accountability.

This newly created position will work cross functionally in an assembly line start-up at our new Cedar Rapids, IA facility.

Growth and development are important aspects of this position.  Whether you aspire to be a leader or a technical expert, this position will set you up for success in the future.

We are seeking an experienced, motivated individual to focus on the setup, launch, and support of our new refrigeration assembly line and associated equipment.

The right individual in this position will manage the planning, execution, delivery, and startup of our new assembly line. They will also coordinate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure the project's success and quality. The responsibilities of the role will evolve from commissioning through ongoing support of the production line.

Primary Planning and Start Up Responsibilities:

• Provide the detailed input to project plans, schedules, and capital budgets.
• Evaluate the entire assembly process. This includes assessing the component fit, required fixturing, process parameters and equipment required to meet the design requirements.
• Develop detailed process requirements and the necessary process tools and equipment to ensure consistency and quality.

• Provide sequence needs of the process to our industrial engineering staff and guide the successful launch of the process

• Generate required process data to drive ERP and MES systems.
• Work collaboratively with industrial engineering team members to plan, purchase, install and implement efficient use of resources throughout the manufacturing process.
• Complete, or coordinate completion, of safety risk assessment and safety lifecycle through development, installation, and start-up of new equipment and processes.
• Perform quantitative process assessments & process capability analysis to validate production readiness of equipment and process.
• Support trial builds of product through the system gathering process feedback for evaluation.
• Qualify equipment, tools and processes in areas of responsibility.

Primary Ongoing Production Responsibilities:

• Evaluate assembly line process monitoring, analyze and identify process elements not in control and lead continuous improvement efforts.
• Review production data and identify need for new equipment. Support capital projects with necessary data for justification
• Identify opportunities for lean manufacturing improvement and lead improvement projects
• Provide support to cross functional staff to sustain production process with respect to quality, safety, reliability and design.
• Support the production team on down equipment triage, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Review, analyze and disposition engineering change requests in support of the assembly and manufacturing process

We value our employees by providing:

• Competitive compensation based on skill and experience.
• Industry leading health, dental, and vision plans.
• Generous 401 (K) savings and profit sharing.
• Education assistance and internal training programs.
• Maternity & paternity leave.
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