Manufacturing Engineer

Overview

The manufacturing engineer provides technical engineering support to Production and Process Engineering for maintaining and improving Contec’s manufacturing processes. 

Responsibilities

• Obtains daily support priorities from Production team shift meetings to ensure production goals are met. 
• Optimize existing manufacturing processes, perform capability studies, and reduce process variation to improve delivered quality, reduce costs, and improve safety. 
• Assists Process Engineer with IQ/OQ/PQ validation process for new manufacturing processes.  
• Participates in or leads PFMEAs to develop process control plans to ensure product meets specifications. 
• Supports Lean initiatives as a participant in kaizen activities. 
• Implements methods for error prevention (Poke Yoke, Autonomation / Jidoka). 
• Provides manufacturing process oversight and ongoing capability.  
• Ensures all existing processes remain safe and environmentally sound to protect associates from injury and minimize related fatigue. 
• Assists all functional areas, Production, Quality, Development, Maintenance, etc. as needed with technical expertise such as mechanical, electrical, control systems, and understanding of material properties (fluids, knitted and/or nonwoven). 
• Provides technical assistance for machine troubleshooting and repair. Act as liaison to equipment manufacturers.  
• Makes design changes to tooling and works with Vendors to provide tooling needs to production work centers. 
• Develops and maintains process settings in Critical Process Parameter Sheets. 
• Uses software for design, communication, and analysis of data:  AutoCad, Solidworks, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and/or Minitab. 
• Participates and works within ISO 9001 quality standards guidelines in accordance with Contec’s quality goals.  
• Others may be assigned. 

Competencies

To be successful in their essential duties, the individual is also expected to have general knowledge of and stay current in developments in the following areas: 

Functional/Technical Skills: Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment. 

Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. 

Problem Solving: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. 

Learning Agility: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as seeds for future learning. 

Supports Core Values: Able to demonstrate support and adherence to Contec’s core values: respect for others, doing “whatever it takes” within Contec’s core values, vision, and strategic direction, exhibiting integrity, having a tolerance for risk, understanding there is life outside of work, enjoying the ride.  

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

 

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE  

Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in Engineering or Material Science from a four-year College or university; and two to ten years related experience. 

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS  

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.  Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.  Ability to effectively convey information and communicate with managers, peers, clients, customers, and the general public. 

 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS  

Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.  Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis. 

REASONING ABILITY  

Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.  Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.,) in its most difficult phases.  Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables. 

 

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS 

None are required for this position. Lean Six Sigma Belts (Yellow, Green) highly desirable. 

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that an associateencounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.    This position requires the person to regularly perform their job in an air-conditioned open office setting from an individual cubicle space where the noise level is moderate. Occasionally, they will be required to work in a manufacturing environment where the noise level is loud and PPE will be required (safety eye protection, steel-toe footwear, and hair covers). While in the manufacturing environment, they will occasionally be exposed to moving mechanical parts, electrical hazards, liquid chemicals, and fumes from the manufacturing process. 

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.    The person in this position remains in a stationary position while working 50% of the time and regularly needs to move about to access equipment and files, both in the office and on the production floor.  The associatefrequently will visit the production floor and utilities spaces to observe equipment and operations. They sometimes must position themselves to observe or investigate equipment from different perspectives and sometimes may ascend/descend a ladder perform this duty. Observation of the equipment requires vision abilities including close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is frequently required to talk or hear as well as diagnosis equipment issues by the way is sounds.  The associate must rarely lift and/or move up to 25 pounds of equipment or supplies.