What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Engineer position at Barrett Firearms Mfg, Inc?
Position Summary
Reporting to the Manufacturing Engineer Manager - This position will be responsible for introducing and improving manufacturing processes throughout the plant. The manufacturing engineer will plan, direct, and coordinate these processes within a team environment and is required to support both internal and external team members.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Other duties may be assigned.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Education And/or Experience
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands and fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
The employee must be able to lift and carry or move up to 70 pounds for long periods of time, in accordance with proper safe lifting procedures. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Reporting to the Manufacturing Engineer Manager - This position will be responsible for introducing and improving manufacturing processes throughout the plant. The manufacturing engineer will plan, direct, and coordinate these processes within a team environment and is required to support both internal and external team members.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Other duties may be assigned.
- Design and Develop mission critical manufacturing processes for both new products as well as implementing new processes to replace old or obsolete equipment.
- Update and Improve processes as needed for design changes, quality concerns, capacity issues, and / or safety problems on existing products / processes.
- Create process flow charts, process routers, and work instructions.
- Team member for New Product Development teams.
- Ensure work instructions, and process routers are available for Quality Control, Purchasing, Inventory, and Production personnel.
- Create Design Concepts and source new fixtures and tooling for various manufacturing operations.
- Perform time studies on new and existing processes.
- Design tools to aid in assembly and processing.
- Assess equipment needed for operations.
- Research new technology to develop and improve manufacturing processes.
- Provides cost analysis on new and existing processes.
- Confers with vendors to determine product specification and arrange for the purchase of equipment, materials, or parts, and evaluates products according to specification and quality standards.
- Perform related duties as needed by the Product Development team to manufacture new products.
- Perform other duties as directed by supervisor or management.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Education And/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or engineering technology, and/or relevant experience.
- 5 years manufacturing experience minimum.
- Experience in the manufacture of small arms and ammunition desired.
- Understanding of GD&T, machining, finishing, and assembly preferred.
- Moderate skills with Office 365 applications such as Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint are needed.
- Moderate CAD skills are needed (Solidworks Preferred).
- Experience with ERP systems required, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Great Plains experience preferred.
- Maintain valid driver’s license.
- Maintain eligibility to work with firearms under state and federal guidelines.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands and fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
The employee must be able to lift and carry or move up to 70 pounds for long periods of time, in accordance with proper safe lifting procedures. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
