Senior Manufacturing Engineer - East Aurora, NY - Full Time, Perm - USD $79,955 to $147,618

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

East Aurora, NY

Full Time, Perm

USD $79,955 to $147,618

Job Description

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer is a critical role in supporting the Prismatic (Complex Milling) Manufacturing Group located in East Aurora NY. The primary responsibility will be supporting the development of new product/development processes, as well as applying new manufacturing technologies to existing or mature production programs. In this role, you’ll take ownership and drive results performing challenging and non‑routine manufacturing engineering work requiring the application of standard engineering techniques and procedures. In addition to accountability for the manufacturing processes in East Aurora, NY you will also help support our other aircraft facilities worldwide as required.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and develop new and emerging technologies in manufacturing engineering.

• Play a major role in coordinating Design for Manufacturing efforts amongst various development engineering groups.

• Determine manufacturing procedures, operation sequencing, prepare tooling and gauge lists, create and prove out N/C programs, writing of detailed operations sheets and work instructions to produce complex machined parts and sub-assemblies.

• Support and improve mature programs through a combination of CAD/CAM, custom macros, and manual coding.

• Prepare, monitor, and update engineered or estimated time standards for set up and run hours, man to machine ratios and economic run quantities for each component’s processes in their entirety.

• Provide cost estimates for new business capture and process improvement efforts.

• Daily interaction with a variety of disciplines, including other engineers, technicians, operations, and quality personnel, as well as external suppliers, to solve process related problems.

• Leadership opportunities assigned by the Group Lead and/or Manufacturing Engineer Manager.

• Support of production automated manufacturing cells, driving process stability to achieve reduced attended labor and human factor variation.

• Some international and/or domestic travel as required.

Basic Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years Manufacturing Engineering experience with increasing responsibility.

• Bachelor of Science Degree (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering or Technology preferred).

• CAD/CAM CNC programming experience required (NX preferred).

• Strong CNC Milling machine processing, tooling, and programming (4 and 5 axis machining) experience required.

• This job requires access to US export-controlled information.

• Additional seasoned experience in manufacturing engineering that would be equivalent to what is learned in a degreed program would be reviewed for an acceptable alternative to the B. S. Degree requirement.

• A progressive thinker and Self-starter to help advance our current methodologies and technologies.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills to work effectively with a variety of people.

• A “Lean Mindset” and leadership skills to drive change towards a “Lean factory” and “Standardized Work”. (Lean belt certification a plus).

• Strong tooling and/or fixture design experience preferred.

• Experience developing automated and advanced manufacturing systems.

• Program management training and experience is a plus.

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Senior Manufacturing Engineer - USA, Huston TX - $87,300 - $116,000

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

USA, Huston TX

$87,300 - $116,000

Duties and Requirements

·        Leads cross-functional projects designed to analyze and design sequence of operations and workflows to improve efficiencies and identifies opportunities to reduce waste using Lean Tools such as Value Stream Mapping, Single Piece Flow, Pull Production, TAKT time production, Level Loading, Continuous Flow, Poka-Yoke, and 5S.

·        Leads studies pertaining to cost, cost reduction, inventory control, and production record systems.

·        Leads the engineering team to develop standardized work documentation and best practices and help to proliferate the culture of standards across the facility.

·        Interfacing with other departments to identify improvement opportunities to drive high quality and efficient processes.

·        Help mobilizing problem solving teams and supporting groups to streamline processes.

·        Champions lean practices throughout the facility, including training as needed.

·        Co-facilitate Kaizen events as appropriate to expand skills in driving continuous improvements in operations and office areas.

·        Leads the development of a manufacturing excellence strategy including lean, OEE, and automation.

·        Maintain and develops bill of materials and routings.

·        Understand standard cost and perform cost analysis for new products, product changes, and product rationalization.

·        Work with a variety of systems including but not limited to SAP, JIRA, Cost reduction analysis and tracking, Capital project requests and justifications.

·        Leader of cost-out projects.

·        Direct employees in installation and repair of electrical and mechanical systems, apparatus, and components of industrial machinery and equipment, following electrical codes, manuals, schematics, and blueprints.

·        Develop and executes maintenance strategy to drive the facility towards maintenance excellence by driving preventive and predictive maintenance, spare parts inventory control, and other equipment uptime improvements.

·        Schedule and assign employees to the daily tasks of maintaining the facility and production equipment via work orders – Follow up to ensure work is completed.

·        Direct outside contractors in the installation of machines and equipment following electrical code, suppliers’ recommendations, and blueprints.

·        Manages the maintaining of a computerized maintenance management system for tracking work orders, preventive maintenance, spare parts and maintenance history of production equipment.

·        Tracks, analyzes, and improves key maintenance metrics such as asset utilization, equipment uptime, maintenance cost, PM compliance, schedule compliance.

Desirable Qualifications:

·        Bachelor’s degree in engineering and or equivalent experience preferred.

·        Previous technical supervisory experience demonstrating the ability to manage people.

·        Experience troubleshooting mechanical systems with electronic controls.

·        7 years of experience with manufacturing equipment.

·        5 years of experience working in a manufacturing manager role and have multiple people reporting to him/her.

·        Experience leading continuous improvement/Lean efforts and enabling efficiency, effectiveness, and tangible financial benefit.

·        Experience with implementing lean tools that eliminate waste such as Value Stream Mapping, Single Piece Flow, Pull Production, TAKT time production, Level Loading, Continuous Flow, Poka-Yoke, and 5S.

·        Demonstrated skills to continuous pursue of excellence, laser focused on the right priorities, perseverance, grit, urgency, ownership, and accountability.

·        Must possess effective written and verbal communication skills and be able to read specs and prints.

·        Must be able to use and manipulate computer applications such as Word and Excel.