Manufacturing Engineer

Our esteemed client is a pioneering national manufacturing company known for crafting innovative components and systems across multiple sectors. This role involves designing, integrating, and enhancing manufacturing systems alongside related processes. You will work collaboratively with commercial and industrial designers to refine product designs, enhance production efficiency, minimize costs, and ensure the reliability of production outputs.

Key Responsibilities:
- Collect and interpret data to create cost structures, initial sketches, and schematic diagrams for tools, machinery, and products, including bills of materials (BOMs), routings, and item masters.
- Develop and update BOMs and manufacturing routings using BPCS.
- Establish and uphold engineering policies and procedures related to BOMs, work centers, routings, Engineering Change Notices (ECNs), product development, material standards, and sourcing of materials.
- Innovate routing solutions for existing products and support the development of new processes.
- Offer design insights to meet customer needs while aligning with economical manufacturing methodologies.
- Research materials and vendors to select solutions that fulfill customer requirements optimally.
- Ensure confidentiality of proprietary designs and maintain distinction between corporate and customer-specific designs.
- Engage in initiatives to develop new processes.
- Work closely with supervisors across the Machine Shop, Maintenance, Fabrication and Finishing, and Materials departments to address plant issues.
- Review current and new setups for ergonomic practices and suggest enhancements.
- Align products with existing processes to optimize the use of existing capital equipment.
- Formulate and sustain production standards.
- Keep thorough engineering documentation including cost files, startup records for new parts, schedules, production files, drafts, copies, and reproductions.
- Provide hands-on support during trial productions and troubleshooting sessions as necessary.
- Utilize tool-design principles and knowledge of forming and bending analyses for steel product development.
- Promptly respond to unplanned equipment malfunctions and aid in restoring operations expeditiously.

Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related discipline.
- Over 3 years of engineering experience within a manufacturing setting.
- Proficiency in tooling design.
- Skilled in SolidWorks, AutoCAD, PTC Creo, and Mastercam technologies.
- Minimum of one year’s experience with resistance welding techniques.
- Familiarity with hot and cold forming, thermal treatment, precision machining, and CNC machine programming.