Manufacturing Engineer (Tooling)

The Manufacturing Engineer supports manufacturing operations by designing and improving production processes, fixtures, and tooling to enhance productivity, quality, safety, and efficiency. The role involves hands-on shop-floor support, fixture design, time studies, line balancing, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Lean Manufacturing, standard work development, and root cause analysis.

• Bachelor's degree in industrial, Manufacturing Engineering

Skills:

• Shopfloor Experience is mandatory
• Fixture Design & Manufacturing
• Work Instructions,
• Time Study
• Line Balancing
• Continuous Improvement
• VSM
• Lean Manufacturing
• Lead the design and development of manufacturing, assembly, welding, and inspection fixtures using SolidWorks.
• Create complete 3D fixture layouts, assemblies, and detailed fabrication drawings using GD&T.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and quality teams to validate fixture concepts, support trials, and resolve shop. Floor issues.
• Drive process capability and productivity improvements through effective fixture solutions.
• Develop and maintain standardized work instructions incorporating fixture usage, operator guidance, and safety considerations.
• Study Assembly Lines/ Processes and identify areas for improvement as per Lean Principles
• Perform Time Study and Line Balancing - Elemental breakdown, Video Time study- All Processes (Stations & Operator), VA/NVA/RNVA analysis, Develop Current State Line Balancing, Muri Analysis
• Develop Value Stream Mapping - Current State VSM - Identify bottlenecks, wastes and inefficiencies, Capacity analysis and Current baselining, Future State VSM, Current state vs Future state
• Identify Process and productivity improvement opportunities for entire process with Level 1,2,3 improvement suggestions report and roadmap
• Develop/ re-write Standard work instructions, Video work instructions
• Analysis of Root Cause for the quality failures, defects, downtimes etc., and support in corrective action & Kaizen / improvement identification with detailed implementation plan
• Support in Fixture design as per requirements