The Operations Engineer reports to Technical Leadership and provides manufacturing expertise to solve difficult problems and continuously improve our manufacturing organization and/or supply base. Provides leadership and direction in manufacturing for programming, processing, tooling, or working with development engineering on new hardware.

Responsibilities:

• Provides technical solutions
• Recognizes problems that are beyond capabilities and is learning from the experts in the area
• Supports new capital equipment purchases and implementation with justification documentation
• Creates cell layouts and process improvement initiatives
• Uses basic Six Sigma and lean tools to improve processes
• Uses basic concepts of Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFMA) and supports new product introduction
• Represents the company to our customers
• Supports updates to management on operations status
• Participates in process improvements on a project level
• Supports the manufacturing floor for any process-related questions and develops/trains other members in the manufacturing process
• Creates, maintains, and develops new process documentation and updates work order documentation
• Implements complex engineering changes
• Adheres to applicable Quality System requirements and supports process audits
• Initiates and supports Process Flow Charts, PFMEA, and Control Plans
• Learned from more senior Operations Engineers. May mentor Level 1 Operations Engineers or Manufacturing Specialists.

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical/science discipline required
• Greater than 8 years of professional engineering experience or a combination of experience and an advanced degree required