Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

The incumbent is primarily concerned with current or proposed manufacturing or processing methods to produce high volume, quality parts in the least expensive process. Solutions are determined by the technical, economic and humanistic limitations provided.

The responsibility consists of in the formulation of production methods or processes, using data from Product Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Sales to determine the functional requirements of the product. Through information supplied or from investigation, consistently seek methods to allow the manufacture of parts on a timely and economical basis, keeping energy conservation in mind, to meet customer's demands. Incumbent measures and predicts the degree of control attainable with a current process based on technical and organizational limitations.

Given relevant data concerning the process, the incumbent determines the capability and feasibility of existing equipment and specifies modifications or substitutions within the limits of economic justification. There are times when new equipment is needed to improve the ergonomics of an operation, protect the worker and the environment or to design and build equipment or fixtures for a particular process or machine.

The incumbent interacts with vendors, product engineers, electricians, unit managers, shift foremen, maintenance personnel, and the Quality Assurance department.

The incumbent should have a thorough understanding of the Unit's processes used to make current products, as well as theoretical engineering understanding to relate new production requirements into existing processes. This sometimes requires keeping existing equipment operational, troubleshooting tooling issues, product design and process parameters, and training personnel on the operation of equipment.

The incumbent has the authority to, with supervision, design or supervise the design of equipment needed to meet the process and economic requirements. The equipment is implemented into production through debugging and follow‑up to verify its technical adequacy, economic and safe performance.

This position is challenged by unexpected breakdowns of major equipment and the education of operators and support personnel to prevent such breakdowns and increase efficiencies. Completed projects are presented to the Supervisor of Manufacturing Engineering for review and approval. Skills and knowledge in both Project Management and Statistical Process Control are required for the incumbent to be successful.

Salary Range: $92,800 - $127,600