What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Engineer position at Doerfer Corporation?
Summary
We are looking for a talented manufacturing engineer to oversee and improve manufacturing processes at Williams, White & Company. The manufacturing engineer's responsibilities include identifying areas for improvement, driving continuous improvement initiatives, maintaining high levels of manufacturing and product quality, as well as ensuring cost-efficiency and conformance with regulatory standards. To be successful as a manufacturing engineer you should be able to work effectively within a team and have a high level of technical expertise. An outstanding manufacturing engineer should be able to develop and optimize manufacturing processes for maximum efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and quality.
Essential Functions
- Assists or provides recommendations to plan, estimate, or schedule production work.
- Ensures adherence to safety rules and practices.
- Monitors manufacturing processes to identify ways to reduce losses, decrease time requirements, or improve quality.
- Review and calculate labor, material and other production costs along with reviewing schedules and future production requirements to assist management in decision making.
- Recommends corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality or reliability.
- Identifies opportunities for improvements in quality, cost, or efficiency of automation equipment.
- Monitors existing processes to assure they continue performing at optimal levels of efficiency.
- Evaluates manufacturing equipment, materials, or components.
- Identifies and / or implements new or sustainable manufacturing technologies, processes, or equipment.
- Assists in developing manufacturing infrastructure to integrate or deploy new manufacturing processes.
- Assists in developing production, inventory, and / or quality assurance programs.
- Manages or assists with work assignments that may include cross-functional or project team responsibilities (e.g. continuous improvement).
- Supports equipment maintenance and repair services and make sure that manufacturer's procedures and instructions are followed in order to keep production equipment operational.
- Performs other duties required by the Company.
- Effectively interacts with managers, supervisors, and hourly team members across all departments.
- Travels on an as needed basis.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
Qualifications and Skills
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