Manufacturing Engineer – Robotics/Welding (1063-0010512)

Job Summary This job is in the Engineering family (Department), which includes positions duties of which are to advise on, administer, supervise, or perform professional, scientific, or technical work concerned with engineering projects, facilities, structures, systems, processes, equipment, devices, material or methods.

Positions in this group require knowledge of the science or art, or both, by which materials, natural resources, and powers are made useful.

This includes both general and specialized engineering, such as mechanical, metallurgical, and electrical specialties, etc.

Job Function The manufacturing engineer will determine the optimal way to manufacture a product from the customer’s blueprint.

As a custom manufacturer, Best Manufacturing is challenged with producing a wide variety of products efficiently and cost effectively.

The manufacturing engineer must find creative and inventive ways of using factory machine tools to produce these products.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

• Establishes routings, methods, layouts, tools, costs, documentation, and quality plans for revisions to current operations and / or new parts or programs.
• Provides support and troubleshooting for current operations.
• Investigates, gathers, and analyzes data and implements solutions.
• Innovates and implements cost reduction, quality, safety, and ergonomic improvement ideas.
• Designs operations layouts.
• Improves material flow and material presentation.
• Leads analysis, development, and implementation of new manufacturing processes and technology.
• Coordinates welding procedure qualifications and generating welding procedures to help the manufacturing and welding teams.
• Tooling / Fixture Design for weld processes.
• Programming and proving out robotic weld processes.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering / Technology discipline.
• 2-5 years of experience preferred.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from management, customers, and / or vendors / contractors required.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively required.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills required.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills required.
• Ability to make sound decisions based on a combination of factors including analysis, knowledge and experience, and judgment required.
• Must be able to work safely while wearing all required PPE.
• Must be able to work a significant amount of time in a shop floor environment working directly with other members of the team.
• Must be able to work in an non-climate controlled environment with a consistently high level of noise.
• Will provide Weld and Fabrication Manufacturing Engineering support and basic troubleshooting for current operations.
• Understand welding capabilities / processes and ability to program / troubleshoot machines both manual and robotic welding systems.
• Hands on experience with robotic systems and robotics programming.
• Experience in one or more related engineering areas : Industrial, Production, Mechanical, Welding, Manufacturing, Quality.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes, automation, quality, tooling, tool design, total preventative maintenance, and facilities.
• Experience with engineering tools, systems, and databases.
30+ days ago