Manufacturing Engineer

Seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for an established manufacturing company specialized in the aerospace and defense industry.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years experience working with manufacturing and measuring processes. Ideally, aerospace or related industry preferred. You have working knowledge associated with gears such as heat treat, carburizing, nitridng, and copper masking. Must have the ability to estimate machining times and the costing of processes.

What you will do:

Responsible for developing manufacturing processes, equipment/tooling alternatives, sequence and flow of operations for the effective utilization of personnel, material, machines and facilities necessary for the production of gears, shafts and other related components.

• Responsible for gear manufacturing process development and definition estimated costing.
• Human factors consideration in development.
• Efficient process and material flow.
• Reading and interpretation of complex blueprints and associated specifications.
• Process design, construction, integration, installation, successful launch and continuous improvement of CNC equipment and tools required for the production of high quality gears, shafts and associated components.
• Providing technical direction and oversight of outside vendor sources for gears, gear blanks and related components.
• Providing technical direction and oversight of in-house manufacturing operations to ensure the successful production of high quality components.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with major in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience with the management of capital projects
• Proven ability in project management skills.
• Strong technical knowledge and abilities in process engineering disciplines
• Technical knowledge / experience in the areas of cylindrical grinding, gear grinding (profile or generative) and/or heat treatment.
• Ability to solve problems and create effective relationships with customers, operators, outside suppliers and fellow engineers.
• Able to establish routings, methods, layouts, tools, costs, methods documentation, quality plans and labor standards for revisions to current operations.
• Able to implement cost reduction, quality, safety and ergonomic improvement ideas.
• Able to assist in specifying the procurement of gear and shaft manufacturing equipment, tools and gages.

OTHER

• Experience in recommending, planning, implementing process flow and manufacturing cell design a plus.
• ERP system knowledge, Epicore-9 a plus.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.