Currently hiring a Lean Manufacturing Engineering to join our growing team. The Manufacturing Engineer will support the productions departments within the business activities.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

· Utilize lean concepts to develop and implement improvements in manufacturing processes and organize kaizen events

· Perform time studies in processes to provide necessary information for Lean projects

· Define and measure current process cycle times and suggest improvements to meet standards.

· Provide documentation for throughput improvement in pant and product flow optimization

· Implement Cycle time improvements for manufacturing processes

· Capacity planning for current and future states for strategic capitals equipment investments

· Identify opportunities for increasing efficiency of the plant, reduce waste and non-value added activities

· Suggest new manufacturing equipment to reduce cycle time including welding equipment, material handling equipment

· Assist cost justifications for capital equipment and support for approval.

· Execute detailed purchase orders when buying capital equipment and maintain costs during execution of projects

· Interface with outside manufacturers or contractors and perform cost comparisons and evaluation

· Co-ordinate with maintenance, machine shop personnel, companies utility vendors for commissioning of new machinery

· Work with engineering department in development of weld automation

· Assist the Operations Manager with developing annual budgets, cost savings, documenting lean initiatives

· Work with Purchasing/Procurement to qualify vendors and finalize bids with guidance as needed

· Update and develop manufacturing standard procedures for Operations Departments to follow

· Train staff on improved processes/new equipment implementation

· Develop and supervise periodic maintenance program for reduction of downtime due to machine breakdown

· Establish Kanban system of production BOM items

· Establish Kanban system of consumable supplies

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's Degree in Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering

· 5 or more year's of Industrial Manufacturing experience

· Strong technical/mechanical aptitude

· Familiar with Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD

· Lean manufacturing knowledge