Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

Your Responsibilities

• Investigates process and manufacturing problems during assembly, brazing, high vacuum processing, and test operations, and implements corrective actions.
• Improves and streamlines processes by improving yields, eliminating waste, and implementing cost saving ideas.
• Conducts failure analyses as required, performs root cause analysis, and initiates appropriate corrective action and process controls to prevent recurrence of failures.
• Creates and modifies work instructions as necessary to document critical to quality process characteristics and establish appropriate process controls. Trains production operators as required.
• Designs a variety of tools, jigs and fixtures that will assist in increasing production efficiency.
• Interacts with Design Engineering to ensure effective transitions to manufacturing of new products.
• Handles multiple projects. Performs any and all required coordination with other operations to ensure that schedules are met, quality is maintained, and manufacturing costs are minimized.
• Ensures a safe work environment by monitoring near misses and accident investigations to prevent recurrence.
• Performs other related duties of comparable complexity as directed.

Your Qualifications

• Requires a B.S. degree in Mechanical/Manufacturing/Process/Electro-Mechanical Engineering
• A minimum 3 years of experience in a manufacturing/production environment.
• Demonstrated Lean Manufacturing training and experience in implementing practices.
• Proven experience in solving manufacturing problems utilizing Six Sigma methodologies.
• Experience taking a “hands-on” approach to engineering.
• Working knowledge of process tracking metrics is required.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong judgment and decision making skills.
• Green or Black Belt certification in Six Sigma methodologies is a plus.
• Experience with high temperature furnace brazing or high vacuum processing is a plus.