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