Jr. Manufacturing Engineer

Primary Function:Provide manufacturing technical assistance for new and existing products, facility layout, capital equipment, and tooling requirements manufacturing operations.

Essential Functions:1.    Able to confer with Design Engineering on manufacturability and testability of new products and bring new products into manufacturing:a.    Ability to understand molding, machining, & stamping design concepts and be able to interact with Design Engineers in technical discussions around these processes.b.    Ability to tailor process development around expected volume and duration of the product.c.    Possesses a good understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerance usage.d.    Familiarity with new product introduction project management systems.e.    Capable of estimating costing on new products at various stages of design completion.f.    Evaluates/Selects tooling and equipment supplies. Writes capital justification requests.2.    Develops, evaluates manufacturing methods, including tooling, fixtures, and processes.3.    Analyzes and plans, space requirements, workflow, and designs layout of equipment for maximum efficiency.4.    Create Operation Sheets.5.    Develops and analyzed statistical data and product/process performance to recommend and implement improvements in targeted areas6.    Translate to Spanish transferred Manufacturing Engineering documentation. 7.    Ensure that   BOM, Router and Operation Sheets are in accordance with engineering drawing and engineering specifications.8.    Verify at the production line that operators can assemble from the documentation given, i.e., operation sheets
 

Basic qualifications:

    Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
    6 months to 1 year of experience in manufacturing processes.    Bilingual English/Spanish (preferred).    Good communication skills.    Computer skills.    Strong project management skills.    Understanding of problem-solving methods (Six Sigma, 8D, root cause analysis).    Knowledge of industry and customer specific quality registration schemes and certification processes (ISO9001, AS9100).    Knowledge of process auditing techniques to ensure compliance to defined quality requirements.    Detail oriented.        Green Belt certified is a plus.