What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Manufacturing Engineer position at Ainsley Search Group?
Ainsley Search Group is hiring for a Lead Manufacturing Engineer to join a fast-growing Manufacturer located in Chester County. This Manufacturing Engineer will report to the Director of Manufacturing, oversee the analysis of capex investment, ROI and design, implement and improve manufacturing process (Machining and Assembly). This opportunity offers excellent compensation, benefit and growth, company would like to develop the ideal candidate to be the Manufacturing Manager in the future.
Responsibilities:
- Report to the Director of Engineering and collaborate with cross functional teams, based on product specifications and quality standards to develop and implement manufacturing process across machining and assembly process.
- Establish rapport with manufacturing operators, act as the primary contact for technical questions regarding manufacturing process, equipment operations, provide training and guidance to operators as needed.
- Drives root cause investigation on issues regarding process, equipment, product quality, tooling etc, identify root causes and develop corrective and preventive measurement to reduce recurring quality and process issues.
- Collaborate with Quality team to investigate non-conformance, customer returns, analyze process and quality related issues and conduct root cause analysis, implement CAPA to reduce quality issues, process issues and re-work issues.
- Drives equipment reliability and safety, troubleshoot equipment failure and collaborate with maintenance team to improve reliability and safety of equipment and process.
- Conduct study and analysis on new capex investment, line expansion, factory layout to determine efficiency, cost, ROI, and yield.
- Drives CI across process, equipment, materials to further improve manufacturing efficiency, cost reduction and waste reduction, perform time study and SPC to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Perform process changeover in between customer projects, continue access process on materials, equipment, tooling and manpower.
- Provide hands-on training and coaching to product personnel on process, process improvement, changes, equipment set-up and maintenance, etc.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical Engineer, industrial engineer, or related fields.
- Recent years of experience as a Manufacturing Engineer, industrial engineer or Process Engineer, exposure to high volume, automated manufacturing environment such as machining, assembly.
- Excellent communication and hands-on leadership skills.
- Solid knowledge of lean manufacturing, SPC, etc., strong in data analysis and problem solving.
- Experience in leading capex projects from study, design, installation, validation, to clouse out
