Manufacturing Engineer

The Manufacturing Engineer is an Engineering resource responsible for capital projects for new and existing business, new work center design, line automation, facility layout/flow and cost reduction initiatives.   Manufacturing Engineer’s manage projects and coordinate them with appropriate personnel and input from operations, scheduling, quality, purchasing and sales to meet the company’s strategy goals.  Their main focus is on projects that increase capacity, improve efficiency, and/or expand the company’s capabilities with respect to manufacturing.

Responsibilities:

•        Plan, design, and manage implementation of large capital manufacturing projects
•        Present deliverables such as project scope, quotes, proposals, and ROI’s
•        Lead new equipment projects with external vendors comprising new processing techniques
•        Plan, design, and implement automation to new & existing work centers
•        Lead complex equipment moves related to facility restructuring
•        Improve the layout and flow of work centers using lean six sigma principles
•        Assist leadership in documenting future manufacturing plans / facility roadmap
•        Define capacity for new production lines
•       Work with the business units, scheduling, and operations to align production capacities with company goals and guide decisions     for future investment
•        Work with technical services to accommodate new product designs into existing or new production capabilities

Job Expectations:

•         Organize, plan, and execute approved engineering projects related to our manufacturing operations, equipment, and facilities.
•        Work based on project scopes and plans and communicate project requirements to stakeholders, with a communication plan for project milestones.
•      Coordinate with the various stakeholders and project members to get alignment on project plans and timelines, as well as approvals for stage-gates in projects.
•         Participate in trials, equipment/vendor/supplier visits, and plant installations/run-offs/pilot runs.
•         Keep key parties up to date with project status while it is in engineering and coordinate an effective hand-off plan to production.

Job Expectation Guidelines:

•         Projects should have a charter and scope document for approval which lays out key project information, goals, stakeholders and stage gates up front.
•         Projects should be planned using appropriate management tools such as Gantt charts, planning software, etc.
•         Updates should be given according to the communication plan for each project

Documentation:

•     Experimental work, data which is not digitized, and test observations should be recorded in an Engineering notebook and eventually summarized in a report for the project.
•     Standardization efforts requiring updated or new design standards, work instructions, process specifications, or material specifications are to be drafted in the standard STR formats. 
•     If no standard instructions or specifications are available for an identified operation or process step during an audit or a project, generation of that instruction or specification document becomes a deliverable for the project and must be planned accordingly.

Communications

•        Daily – Notify supervisor and involved parties of any major issues or changes in projects
•      Weekly – Lead manufacturing project stakeholder task update meetings, report on applicable manufacturing project progress at Engineering Weekly Print Meeting & Process Engineering Meeting.
•       Monthly – Report on applicable manufacturing project progress at Production Meeting, long term project reviews and project plan updates with timelines and detailed Gantt review at applicable Engineering Weekly Print Meetings & Process Engineering Meetings.
•     Requests – All requests (test, job, maintenance, purchasing) will flow through official controlled request forms and follow standard work instructions for communicating the request