What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Engineer position at The Hinckley Company?
Job Description
Job Description
Description :
Hinckley Yachts has been building and servicing America’s finest yachts since 1928. With ten YachtCare Centers spanning from Maine to Florida, we offer comprehensive service, refits, transportation, and storage, providing our customers with pinnacle ownership experience. Our production facility is in Trenton, Maine near Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park.
Hinckley offers competitive wages, training, and full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k with an employer match, and paid time off. Our expanding network allows the opportunity of upward mobility and a clear career path to achieve personal success.
The Hinckley Company, known for building and servicing, strong, seaworthy and beautiful yachts is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer focusing on composites for our production facility in Trenton, Maine.
Essential Duties :
- Production Support - Work with Plant Management, Production Supervisors, Quality Assurance and other plant level departments to evaluate and address production issues, both product and process in nature.
- Composite Materials Kits – Develop, maintain, and improve composite material digital patterns including for fiberglass, carbon, foam core and structural reinforcements.
- Manufacturing Documentation - Develop and update manufacturing documentation to be used by Production (i.e. – lamination schedules, core and reinforcement layouts, process work instructions, etc.).
- Manufacturing Tools - Identify and develop tools (ex : jigs and fixtures) for increased productivity or reduction of non-value-added costs. Ability to construct jigs, fixtures and right sized tooling.
- Direct Cost Reduction Initiative - Lead efforts to reduce direct labor and material costs by simplifying lamination, post-finishing and assembly processes, selecting alternative materials, redesigning components, etc.
- Bill of Materials - Coordinate BOM development and changes to improve accuracy, develop kits, etc.
- Bill of Labor - Develop labor costing for new products during Product Development timeframe and for existing products as a result of any ECN driven changes.
- Engineering Change Notice (ECN) - Identify, coordinate and implement any engineering changes with all affected shops. Utilize the ECN system to document and communicate defined engineering changes.
- New Product Introductions - Work with Product Development personnel to identify and implement design and production enhancements in development stages of new models.
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