Manufacturing Engineer

at  Vertiv

POSITION SUMMARY

The Manufacturing Engineers serves as a liaison to management on manufacturing, quality, process and engineering related issues. The manufacturing Engineer is responsible for the technical support of the product line. Successful Manufacturing Engineers provides technical support and typically will be responsible for a production area, projects, documentation, lean, cost reductions, equipment, process and safety. The Manufacturing Engineers must assess and anticipates needs for the business and find solutions to problems that impact production and quality. Commute proactively with production associates and business management.

•Analyze trends and metrics in partnership with Management to develop solutions, programs and procedures.
•Maintain in depth knowledge of lean and manufacturing programs to eliminate paint booths bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Paint process balancing, setup reduction, higher yield, and space optimization.
•Work closely with Safety and Health departments to assure the production area, tooling and fixtures are designed ergonomically and safe.
•Develop cost reduction ideas through process design, acquisition of tooling, capital equipment or documentation improvements
•Provides day to day guidance to management and or associates on potential changes that impact production line volumes, quality, safety, or deliveries.
•Oversee the transition of products from internal and external sources to our manufacturing plant including, buy vs. make decisions and job move programs from other countries.
•Documentation of products through use of Bills of Materials, Routers, Value stream maps, Flow charts, spreadsheets drawings, videos or digital photos. Create Engineering deviations or change.
•Predicated, Preventative and Reacted maintenance of machinery and equipment. Setup programs that provide high OCE.
•Oversee capital equipment and small tooling required for assigned manufacturing or quality area. Maybe required to program, calibrate and adjust machines.
•Utilize software for documentation and drawing of products, Auto-Cad, PRO-E or other as required.
•Participate in evaluation and monitoring of success of training programs. Follow-up to ensure training objectives are met.
•Implement appropriation requests for machines, software, or tooling through written documentation with supporting information.
•Guarantee the compliance of company procedures and policies.