Manufacturing Engineer

• Manage capital projects; create conceptual drawings, equipment specifications and bid documentation to facilitate a competitive bid environment. Must be able to take a capital project from the quoting stage with vendors, to installing the equipment and having work instructions created for an operator to use that equipment.
• Create and maintain Gantt charts to manage capital project timelines to ensure tasks are being completed on time. Maintain open issues or problem follow up lists to ensure equipment installations go as smooth as possible and all issues are resolved in a timely manner as well. * Assists in the commissioning of new plant equipment and other systems to ensure that installation into the production facility is handled efficiently and with minimal disruption to production.
• Support cost reduction activities. Lead activities or work on smaller parts of a specific cost reduction project. Develop ideas to generate cost savings as well. * Support productivity and waste reduction activities, (utilizing Lean methodology if one has that training and if not be willing to get it), and capacity planning initiatives. As PPI continues to grow, this position is responsible for removing waste from our processes (i.e. Loss Improvement) to increase capacity and reduce lead times and costs. * Support Ergonomic improvement activities. Must be open to training in ergonomics to support accordingly. This position will help support both short term (recordable rate reduction) and long term (capital projects) ergonomic improvement initiatives. The short term initiatives will be more associate behavioral based issues, the Manufacturing Engineer must be able to drive change with associates. * Support Manufacturing Engineering with all error-proofing (poke-yoke) activities. Incorporate PLC’s into the poke-yokes. Demonstrated willingness to learn about PLC’s, logic, etc. * Provide support with BOM (Bill of Materials) and routings validation. Perform time studies as required to ensure standard time and standard cost accuracy in our SAP MRP system. Validate weights of raw materials so that BOM’s call for the correct amount of materials and show a correct standard cost. * Assist in the development of new products, processes or systems. * Assist production to develop and maintain the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) for production related processes and train operators, lead people, supervisors, and managers as required. * Aid in the design of fixtures, jigs, etc in AutoCAD or another CAD software, as required, to improve production processes. * Support the Quality department with root cause analysis’s of scrap product and corrective actions. * Maintain a positive work atmosphere with respect and communicate with others in a professional manner. * Provide technical support for engineering projects using MS Excel and AutoCAD, or other CAD software. * Additional projects as required.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $55,000.00 to $75,000.00 /year

Required education:

• Bachelor’s

Required experience:

• Manufacturing Engineering: 3 years