Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

Essential Job Duties:

• Perform technical examination of a highly complex nature in the control of product, design concepts, and specification requirements and provides technical data, advice or reports on specific problems to the manufacturing group
• Investigate and analyze unique or highly technical manufacturing problems or a variety of complex mechanical/electrical production problems and recommends and provides all necessary technical assistance for their solution
• Conduct assessments of existing or proposed manufacturing processes to provide focused improvement opportunities to increase production efficiencies, eliminate waste, reduce inventory, reduce lead times and increase quality
• Design and implement efficient processes using lean manufacturing principles, to enable single piece flow in a pull system philosophy for existing products or new product launches as appropriate
• Develop fixtures and VSM’s to reduce cycle-times for routine tasks
• Justify and purchase equipment/tooling to improve or implement manufacturing processes
• Generate BOM’s from customer specifications and drawings
• Generate written work instructions, process control procedures and operating procedures
• Establish appropriate methods, tools, equipment, etc. required to produce products
• Provide input to Bills of Material and routing as necessary to maintain inventory control, efficiency goals and financial controls
• Establish initial calibration schedules for implemented measuring and test equipment
• Establish/maintains facility layout that is consistent with kanban, efficient material flow and pull system techniques

Educational and Experience Requirements:

• BS Degree in a related Engineering discipline
• 6+ years of manufacturing engineering experience, preferably in the Semiconductor and Capital Equipment industry
• Six Sigma, ISO 9001, 5’s Program, and Lean Manufacturing processes knowledge/training required