Manufacturing Engineer

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer, Spartanburg

Job Summary

The Manufacturing Engineer will report to our Spartanburg, SC location. The Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for performing conventional, less complex manufacturing engineering assignments that involve developing and improving engineering processes and systems associated with the production of the organization's products.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Establish work standards through accepted time and motion techniques and maintain the work measurement system.
• Estimate standards and prepare cost estimates on new products or engineering changes as assigned by the Engineering Manager.
• Justify value of product cost to customer.
• Constant analysis of methods and manufacturing processes for improvement, simplification, revision, cost reduction and utilizing Kaizen.
• Initiate new and revised plant layouts.
• Audit current standards for changes and improvements in manufacturing processes and to insure a fair and equitable work measurement program.
• Initiate new information and maintain current data in both the process routings and bills of material reports. Audit as assigned by the Engineering Manager.
• Instruct manufacturing management and hourly employees in the application of industrial engineering programs.
• Investigate methods change, layout revision, and cost reduction recommendations.
• Derive and establish systems of standard time date for measuring entire classes of work.
• Develop and initiate means of measuring indirect labor and other non-repetitive work.
• Investigate and evaluate designated manufacturing problems, determine suitable courses of action to remedy conditions and make recommendations to the Engineering Manager.
• Gather, compile, and analyze data and information on manufacturing operations and conduct special studies and projects as directed by the Engineering Manager.
• Develop and design jigs and fixtures to improve manufacturing processes.
• Participate in safety and ergonomic teams and be constantly aware of safety/ergonomic considerations in all activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Engineering Manager.
• Development of manufacturing processes by completing detailed engineering analysis.
• Validation of manufacturing process to meet labor targets, production output and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in industrial and/or Mechanical Engineering

• 5+ years of proven experience as a Manufacturing Engineer in the automotive sector.
• 5+ years of proven experience working with Industrial Textiles (Trim)
• PLC Experience required.
• Experience with PLEX ERP preferred.
• Prior experience in IATF 16949 & ISO 9001 preferred.