Associate Manufacturing Engineer

The Associate Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and reviewing the procedures and equipment involved in the manufacturing process. The Associate Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for evaluating and optimizing current and new processes to drive efficiencies in production in coordination with Manufacturing Engineer. They must design and implement manufacturing methods and processes that continually improve employee safety, product quality, and labor productivity goals and objectives for both new and existing products. Support daily production operations by applying engineering principles and troubleshooting skills to a diverse range of manufacturing processes, to maintain production flow. Develop skills to advance into more senior engineering roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrates ability to perform as a self-starter to drive continuous improvement efforts in areas of responsibility.
• Continually seeks new opportunities to improve both processes and products.
• Provides necessary support within the factory and department to meet safety, quality, delivery, and cost goals.
• Act as the technical project manager with overall responsibility for the management, performance and completion of one major or several smaller projects.
• Generate the project scope statement from the preliminary requirements document.
• Use project deliverables to develop the work breakdown structure and network diagram that then drive the detailed activity / task list.
• Responsible for obtaining accurate time and cost estimates, then managing the project to schedule and budget.
• Actively manage the project's critical path.
• Perform a project risk assessment and recommend key experiments and / or simulation and predictive tools to mitigate areas of high potential risk.
• Use structured problem-solving methodologies to identify root cause. Offer conceptual solutions and work closely with the product development team to turn concepts into commercialized products.
• Provide leadership to the project team and work with team members to achieve common objectives.
• Prepare and present project milestone documents to the Engineering Milestone Review Committee. Work with team members to ensure accurate completion of engineering, marketing, and factory documents.
• Develop communication documents, presentations, and dashboards for communicating the project status, health, etc. to the leadership and marketing team.
• Drive the creation of technical specifications, design specifications, and system validation plans to meet the project deliverables.
• Provide leadership in meeting customer and regulatory requirements with designs that have sustainable differentiation for minimal overall cost.
• Provides engineering support by troubleshooting problems and implementing timely solutions to maintain continuity of production flow.
• Monitors and debugs production methods / procedures to ensure system efficiency.
• Prepares design concept drawings, cost estimates and implementation schedules for production equipment and tooling.
• Reviews and recommends changes to mechanical drawings and process documentation.
• Interfaces with other manufacturing departments to address and resolve engineering issues.
• Interfaces with vendors and outside sales personnel to evaluate, cost estimate, and select purchase parts and production equipment.
• Participates in Monthly Improvement Workshops (Kaizens).
• Develop, update and maintain the BOM's, routing and cost structure information.

Background and Skills

Personal Trait Profile

Our location :

Altoona, Pennsylvania offers beautiful scenery, a rich history, all four seasons, and several major urban centers. Oh, and did we mention that Pennsylvania is the chocolate capital of America?

Who we are :

At Veeder-Root, our purpose is to support the global fueling infrastructure by delivering the best solutions in automatic tank gauging and fuel management systems driven by innovation and breakthrough thinking. We are committed to delivering measurable value to our customers and to continually expand that value through improvements to our solutions and processes.

WHO IS VONTIER

Vontier (NYSE : VNT) is a global industrial technology company uniting critical mobility and multi-energy technologies and solutions to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving, more connected mobility ecosystem. Leveraging leading market positions, decades of domain expertise and unparalleled portfolio breadth, Vontier enables the way the world moves – delivering smart, safe, and sustainable solutions to our customers and the planet. Vontier has a culture of continuous improvement built upon the foundation of the Vontier Business System and embraced by over 8,500 colleagues worldwide. Additional information about Vontier is available on the Company's website at www.vontier.com.

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