What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Engineer - Assembly position at Sub-Zero Group, Inc.?
Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove the leading manufacturer of luxury kitchen appliances is a longstanding, family-owned company in the Madison area. Icons of design and paragons of performance and quality, Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove are the refrigeration, cooking, and dishwashing specialists found in world’s most luxurious homes. We look for team members who are driven by innovation and excellence, striving to serve our customers by doing what is right—with integrity, teamwork, and accountability.
This position will work closely with a group of engineers dedicated to the support, safety, reliability, and throughput of assembly equipment. They will be part of a larger team made of up Quality, Reliability, and Test Engineering focused on driving Safety, Quality, and Delivery.
Growth and development are important aspects of this position. Whether you aspire to be a leader or a technical expert, this position will set you up for success in the future.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provide assembly engineering input, with focus on process and industrial engineering methodologies, as a member of a Business Unit.
- Assembly process management (manpower calculation, line balancing, time studies, and work instruction creation/maintenance).
- Work with Business Unit to execute control plans and provide continuous maintenance and validation to plans.
- Analyze failure rates, failure modes, and failure mechanisms to support robust process and project solutions.
- Analyze production downtime or bottlenecks, establish trends, determine root cause of failure and corrective action.
- Identify and execute assembly layout improvement opportunities (tooling, automation, workflow).
- Identify training initiatives for team and work force operators.
- Lead projects with focus on implementing improvements to equipment and processes as they relate to Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost KPI’s.
- Other duties and tasks that deemed necessary to maintain or improve the business.
- Opportunities to lead and develop technicians or engineers.
Non-routine Responsibilities:
- Troubleshoot, improve, and help maintain plant tooling, fixtures, equipment and processes related to:
- Manufacturing, testing and charging of sealed systems and sealed system components
- Automated polyurethane foaming systems and support equipment
- Bulk storage and delivery of refrigerants, foam components and tracer gases
- Automated manufacturing systems (PLC integration)
- Work with teams to develop, procure, and implement assembly processes for new and existing product lines.
- Provide input to new product development teams to develop and establish process control plans to implement to production.
- Manufacturing Execution System (MES) support for process improvement and production layouts/facilities/requests.
We value our employees by providing:
- Competitive compensation based on skills
- Industry leading health, dental, and vision plans
- Generous 401 (K) savings and profit sharing
- Education assistance and internal training programs
- Electric vehicle charging
- Maternity & paternity leave
- Interested in learning more on our robust benefits package we offer? Click here!
This position requires a pre-employment drug/alcohol test and background check, which will be administered after a conditional job offer is extended. A negative drug/alcohol test result is required for employment. Refusal to take the test or a positive result may disqualify a candidate from further consideration. All drug testing will be conducted in accordance with federal and state laws.
