Manufacturing Engineer II

HI-LEX North America


Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Battle Creek, MI
Contract type: Full time
Description

Develop, implement, manage, and track new process systems and improvements that increase efficiency, safety and morale with a special emphasis on utilizing associate input and continuous improvement to meet or exceed company goals.

Essential Functions:

  • Develops, implements, manages and tracks new process systems and improvements that increase efficiency, safety and morale.
  • Educates manufacturing engineers, technicians, and (occasionally) contract personnel to promote/ensure continuous improvement.
  • Controls and manages project schedules, budgets, and expenses.
  • Develops project scopes and definitions that can apply to both internal and external resources.
  • Develops estimates for equipment, tooling and labor for lowest cost and highest quality solutions for new and existing business.
  • Identifies and selects vendors from which to order tooling and equipment.
  • Encourage team involvement, where associates are interviewed and participate in the corrective actions, and implementation of solutions.
  • Promotes Kaizen improvement initiatives and lean methods to eliminate non-value-added activities, and to improve productivity, quality, and associate morale.
  • Monitor manufacturing processing performance and develop improvements to help the manufacturing element be more effective and create less waste.
  • Fosters an environment, at all levels of the organization, conducive to rapid problem solving.
  • Promotes an associate relations environment that is consistent with long-term management objectives.

Qualifications

Essential Functions Physical Requirements / Working Conditions:

  • Office environment with noise from computer peripherals such as mainframe, disk drives and printers.
  • Exposure to moving equipment, parts and electrical shock.
  • Possible serious injury due to carelessness around equipment.
  • Daily lifts, carries or moves objects – up to 25 pounds.
  • Sometimes lifts, carries, or moves objects – up to 50 pounds.
  • Factory environment with noise from manufacturing equipment.
  • Job requires standing, walking, climbing stairs and sitting.
  • Operations require stooping, kneeling, crouching, climbing or crawling.
  • Ability to hear warnings from equipment, machines, vehicles and public-address systems.
  • Operations highly repetitive.
  • Requires pushing, pulling, twisting, and reaching.
  • Require reaching below and above shoulder height.
  • Require movement of head and neck.
  • Clothing and shoes must comply with current MIOSHA regulations and current dress code policy.

Exposure:

  • Dust, noise, heat, molten material, vibration, chemicals moving vehicles and manufacturing odor.
  • The factory condition environment is not air conditioned but heated.

Secondary Functions:

  • Coordinates external contractors as well as internal resources to assist with the completion of projects.
  • Performs all other duties as necessary.

Specialized Training, Skills, Abilities, Experience:

  • 4-year degree in mechanical engineering, engineering technology, or equivalent field preferred.
  • 2-5 years experience in production line or tooling/machine design preferred.
  • 2-5 years project management experience (MS Project Gantt chart creation and utilization).
  • 2-5 years experience employing standardized labor estimation tools and methods (Modapts).
  • 2-5 years experience employing manufacturing process defect prevention tools and methods (PFMEA).
  • Knowledge of production tooling, cost estimation, electrical machine controls, and PLC programming.

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