Product Engineer

Responsibilities

Our state-of-the-art investment casting facility in La Porte, Indiana is seeking a Product Engineer to join our team. Nestled halfway between South Bend and Chicago, along the shores of Lake Michigan - our facility in La Porte, Indiana supplies jet engine components to some of the most trusted names in the Aerospace industry.

Job Summary - This position is responsible for the dimensional integrity of an assigned portfolio of investment cast parts. Responsibility includes the design and acquisition of tooling, fixtures, gauges, and dimensional inspection plans necessary to produce parts that consistently meet or exceed our customers’ requirements and expectations. Also, this position will identify and lead continuous improvement activities to reduce cost, improve scrap and rework yields, and improve the overall efficiency of the manufacturing process.

Essential Functions

• Develops and improves processes of critical and complex aerospace components.
• Conceives, evaluates and implements problem solving activities, cost reduction initiatives and part/process improvement activities.
  
  

Job responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Investigates and analyzes root cause of external customer escapes. Develops and implements corrective action plans accordingly.
• Initiates, prepares and validates dimensional qualification packages to meet customer requirements.
• Conducts meetings and provides technical data to meet customer needs.
• Promptly responds to manufacturing issues and addresses root cause.
• Evaluates defects and dimensional integrity of components and determines appropriate actions.
• Defines and implements control plans and FMEA per customer requirements.
• Collects, analyzes and prepares statistical data.
• Conducts design review meetings with customers to ensure production capability on new components.
• Develops production processes that are efficient and within cost estimates.
• Evaluates and implements cost reduction activities.
• Develops scrap and labor costs for cost modeling.
• Defines, solicits and reviews quotes for tooling and cores.
• Attends NPI meetings and provides input based on customer specifications for BOM, routings and milestone plans.
• Defines designs, coordinates construction and validates finished tooling.
• Collects & analyzes data to appropriately identify, institute, and monitor cost reduction efforts.
• Collects & analyzes data to appropriately identify, institute, and monitor scrap and rework improvements.
• Complies with all EHS rules required for the work environment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.