Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer, Sr
Overview
The Senior Manufacturing Engineer will oversee the design of production machinery and will identify and recommend solutions to production problems related to materials, processes, and tooling.
Responsibilities
Safety: Ensures new and existing processes are safe for employees, ergonomically correct, and are in compliance with OSHA requirements
Quality: Continuously strives for product and process improvements that meet or exceed customer requirements. Develops systems and methods for ensuring quality such as: In-process controls, FMEA, SPC, and Process Capability Analysis and DOE
Environment: Ensures new and existing processes make good use of resources and are in compliance with environmental regulations
New Product Development: Represents manufacturing on product development projects, leads all manufacturing elements in plan development and implementation. Primary NPD duties include: Process definition, process capability analysis, tool and gauge development and acquisition, work instruction development, special process training of shop employees, capital equipment acquisition and implementation, influence design for manufacturing and assembly, cost estimating, workstation design, floor layout planning and development, process routing and engineering labor standards, and standardization of tooling
Workflow: Leads, develops, evaluates, and improves manufacturing methods in support of company objectives. Works with production personnel, production supervision, and materials management, to implement lean manufacturing tools and philosophy
Projects: Leads, manages and coordinates capital equipment acquisition and improvement projects, including:

• Pragmatic Automation
• Leads proposals and justification.
• Leads and monitoring of project plans and schedules.
• Leads recommendation process and/or selection of project team members.
• Lead project team meetings
• Consistent and clear communication of project status

Facility Use: Analyzes and manages the company's efforts to maximize facility use by recommending physical plant modifications or additions, floor space design, and machine and equipment placement in support of manufacturing department objectives
Support: Consults with design engineering staff, purchasing, and suppliers concerning product design, tooling, and the purchase of materials, parts, and/or equipment. Consults with production leadership and shop associates concerning process improvements
Automation Focus: Ability to uncover areas in the manufacturing environment that would lend itself to automate. Skills include designing, building, implementing small automation projects internally. Larger automation projects would often be leveraged with outside vendor, where this role would be leading the project, training, implementation, and being the onsite expert
Participate in the development of production metrics such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and total effective equipment performance (TEEP)
Lean: Supports lean initiatives to improve efficiency throughout the organization
Qualifications
Essential:

• BS degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent
• 8+ years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
• Project management experience
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, both oral and written
• Ability to lead teams both direct and indirectly
• Ability to understand company vision and apply it at the detail level

Desired:

• Experience in controls, pneumatics, mechanics, motion, and assembly
• CERTIFICATIONS - PMP, Six sigma Black belt
• Knowledge and experience in CNC machining environment
• Experience in plant layout and design from workflow, work center design, to equipment design
• Experience in effective implementation of "lean manufacturing" practices
• Intermediate SOLIDWORKS CAD experience
• Advanced User of MS Office products - specifically Excel and Power BI
• Intermediate user level of databases - ability to create tables, build reports, utilize data

Compensation: $130,000.00 per year
Scott Labat of Distinctive Staffing Solutions has been in the staffing business most of his career. He started with staffing when he was opening restaurants across the country. Scott enjoyed the hiring process and staffing the locations. He left that business to continue his passion for staffing and went to work for an IT recruiting firm placing full-time resources, working with both clients and candidates. In his career he has worked with full-time staffing firms, project based consulting firms and national contingent staffing companies.
We have all worked with consulting/staffing firms that have a process in place and will do what ever it takes to make their clients accept these processes. DSS understands that client success is wrapped around understanding their processes and procedures and working together to find a solution to their staffing/project needs.
DSS is not in the business of making our clients change their internal processes to fit our needs.
We listen to our consultants and candidates to understand what they are looking for in their career. It is important that we understand what is ideal for them and when we are working on the opportunity we can present that to them.
We strive to make every placement a success for our resources as well as the clients.
We want to make sure that our internal staff is also happy, without our internal team we have nothing. We are not an organization that is metrics driven, we have all worked with metrics driven organizations. You need to make a certain amount of calls/submittals/meetings each day/week/month. This is great if you are a machine but we all know that we are not. What makes DSS successful is the personalization that we strive for. We strive for one thing, making great placements with our trusted clients. You can't do that if you are forcing metrics, this causes actions that are not in the best interest of the candidate or our clients, this is not the targeted production that DSS wants.
We want to make sure that every action that is taken in our organization is focused on a mututally successful placement, not meeting a quota.
If you agree with these points we will build a great relationship. Distinctive Staffing Solutions was started to build relationships with clients, candidates/consultants and internal staff, not to fill quotas!