Manufacturing Engineer at Doerfer Corporation
Moline, IL 61265
About the Job
Summary
We are looking for a talented manufacturing engineer to oversee and improve manufacturing processes at Williams, White & Company. The manufacturing engineer's responsibilities include identifying areas for improvement, driving continuous improvement initiatives, maintaining high levels of manufacturing and product quality, as well as ensuring cost-efficiency and conformance with regulatory standards.To be successful as a manufacturing engineer you should be able to work effectively within a team and have a high level of technical expertise. An outstanding manufacturing engineer should be able to develop and optimize manufacturing processes for maximum efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and quality.
Essential Functions
Requirements
Qualifications and Skills
Required:
Preferred:
We are looking for a talented manufacturing engineer to oversee and improve manufacturing processes at Williams, White & Company. The manufacturing engineer's responsibilities include identifying areas for improvement, driving continuous improvement initiatives, maintaining high levels of manufacturing and product quality, as well as ensuring cost-efficiency and conformance with regulatory standards.To be successful as a manufacturing engineer you should be able to work effectively within a team and have a high level of technical expertise. An outstanding manufacturing engineer should be able to develop and optimize manufacturing processes for maximum efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and quality.
Essential Functions
- Assists or provides recommendations to plan, estimate, or schedule production work.
- Ensures adherence to safety rules and practices.
- Monitors manufacturing processes to identify ways to reduce losses, decrease time requirements, or improve quality.
- Review and calculate labor, material and other production costs along with reviewing schedules and future production requirements to assist management in decision making.
- Recommends corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality or reliability.
- Identifies opportunities for improvements in quality, cost, or efficiency of automation equipment.
- Monitors existing processes to assure they continue performing at optimal levels of efficiency.
- Evaluates manufacturing equipment, materials, or components.
- Identifies and/or implements new or sustainable manufacturing technologies, processes, or equipment.
- Assists in developing manufacturing infrastructure to integrate or deploy new manufacturing processes.
- Assists in developing production, inventory, and/or quality assurance programs.
- Manages or assists with work assignments that may include cross-functional or project team responsibilities (e.g. continuous improvement).
- Supports equipment maintenance and repair services and make sure that manufacturer's procedures and instructions are followed in order to keep production equipment operational.
- Performs other duties required by the Company.
- Effectively interacts with managers, supervisors, and hourly team members across all departments.
- Travels on an as needed basis.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
Qualifications and Skills
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, industrial, or mechanical engineering required.
- 5+ years manufacturing or industrial engineering required.
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Strong Analytical skills and takes initiative.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- High level of technical expertise.
- Ability to lead and work independently.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred:
- Lean manufacturing experience preferred (Six-Sigma Green or Black Belt certification).
- Experience using CAD, CAM, data analysis programs, and related software preferred.