Manufacturing Engineer
Schleifring North America · Schleifring North America - Chelmsford, MA 01824
MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Reports to: Manufacturing Engineering Manager
Summary:
The job holder must perform their duties in such a way that:
- Manufacturing processes and workflows allow operators and technicians to produce quality product, on time, and at the expected cost.
- Bills of materials and routings for assemblies and individual parts are created on time.
- Work instructions follow expected guidelines and provide necessary information, and non-compliant instructions are corrected in a reasonable timeframe.
- Tools relevant for production are designed, manufactured and / or procured on schedule.
- All standard operating procedures are consistently reproducible.
- All tasks are completed in a timely and economical manner.
- Their actions always correspond to the corporate philosophy and serve to achieve the company's goals.
The job holder must inform and advise their manager in such a way that they are able to:
- Communicate relevant information to those parties who need to know it.
- Define appropriate measures and objectives and to identify progress towards the achievement of said objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Creating and maintaining standard operating procedures, detailed work instructions, and process flow routers.
- Correcting and editing material master data in SAP.
- Creating and editing production BOMs.
- Assisting with make or buy decisions on drafted materials.
- Clarifying beforehand which supplier is suitable or make suggestions for possible selection (also suggest technology-related innovations).
- Creating specifications for any required clamping and / or assembly devices, with ability to create prints for them if needed.
- Creating change requests and quality notes in SAP
- Completing change requests with regards to process controls (routings, SOPs, WI, fixtures, etc.)
- Analyzing data to uncover process improvement opportunities and evaluate test / trial results.
- Initiating and participating in process improvement projects, bringing them to a successful conclusion under target and deadlines.
- Processing of service orders within production
- Advising the design department with regards to their choices of material and limitations of manufacturing technology, taking into account both the technical and business contexts.
- Advising the purchasing department with regards to expected manufacturing costs and possible manufacturing processes.
- Advising the supplier quality team about manufacturing processes, processes and helping with problems with and questions about technical documentation.
- Traveling to other plants to facilitate new product introductions and transfer programs into SNA. Travel will not be a regular part of day-to-day responsibilities, but when it is required, it could be for as many as 8 consecutive weeks.
- Informing their manager in case of failure to meet deadlines.
- Informing departments and people in the information chain of project progress, such as: production management, order management, IT department, QA and design.
- Taking part in necessary kick-off meetings, departmental meetings, project meetings, etc.