Process Improvement Engineer

Whelan Machine & Tool, an Ajax Defense company, builds precision components and assemblies for defense and commercial customers. We're hiring a Process Improvement Engineer to own product routings, time standards and capacity, and to lead continuous improvement across machining, welding, assembly and offload.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain routings and time standards in the ERP system for machining, welding, assembly and offload
• Measure actual times against standards and keep them current
• Support quoting with labor and machine time estimates
• Model capacity by work center and flag bottlenecks to Operations and Production Control
• Lead continuous improvement: layout, setup reduction, standard work and 5S
• Justify equipment and tooling purchases with cost and capacity data

What you need

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of industrial or manufacturing engineering in a machining, fabrication or assembly environment
• Experience setting time standards and routings in an ERP/MRP system
• Must be a U.S. Person as defined by ITAR (the job involves export-controlled technical data)

Nice to have

• Lean or Six Sigma certification
• Experience in an AS9100 defense or aerospace job shop
• Experience with capacity modeling and simulation tools

Office-based with regular time on the production floor.

Ajax Defense, Inc. and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

You should be proficient in:

• Continuous Improvement
• Kaizen
• AS9100 Experience
• ITAR Registration Experience