Manufacturing
USA, Livermore CA
$69,000 - $100,000
Job Description:
The Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and operating manufacturing systems and processes to ensure that production lines are safe, effective, efficient, and produce quality products. His/her duties include researching automation/manufactruing techniques, testing new systems for efficiency and planning factory layouts to optimize production.
General Description of Duties and Responsibilities:
· Promote safety in the workplace.
· Evaluate quality control processes and make recommendations for improvements in quality control.
· Assures product and process quality by designing testing methods.
· Analyze production processes, schedules, methods and other data and then provide management with reports containing the data and statistics to enable management to better understand future requirements needed for the manufacturing process.
· Ensure that the company’s manufacturing processes are in compliance with all government laws and regulations.
· Review and calculate labor, material and other production costs along with reviewing schedules and future production requirements to assist management in decision making.
· Analyze and plan workflow, equipment placement and space requirements to improve manufacturing efficiency.
· Coordinate equipment maintenance and repair services and make sure that manufacturer’s procedures and instructions are followed in order to keep production equipment operational.
· Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops.
· Manages capital projects and improvement activities, sharing knowledge with other plants
Qualifications and Experience Requirements:
· Bachelor’s Degree in engineering required, degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering preferred
· Must have 3+ year of experience in Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering
· Exceptional verbal and written communication abilities along with outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills
· Strong knowledge and expertise of engineering methods and concepts
· Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Lean Manufacturing skills preferred
· Must have 2D AutoCAD and 3D modeling experience
· SAP experience preferred
· Must be creative and able to work independently with only general supervision
· Competencies
· Nimble Learning
· Customer Focus
· Plans and Aligns
· Collaborates
· Balance Stakeholders
· Action Oriented
· Manufacturing engineering experience – Look for somewhere between 3+ (more is always desirable)
· Various manufacturing concepts (e.g. Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production systems, Continuous Flow, one piece vs batch
· Ask for a specific project that a candidate worked on which resulted in some kind of improvement
· Improvement can be
· Save $$
· Space
· Time,
· Reduce cycle time, etc.
· Experience in “Process”
· Developing
· Improving
· Implementing
· SOP (standard work instruction)
· 5S