EPITEC is hiring: Manufacturing Engineer in Indiana

Overview

This range is provided by EPITEC. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range
$30.00/hr - $33.00/hr

Environment: 40% shop floor (machining or assembly), 60% office

Summary: The main function of a manufacturing engineer is to apply engineering theory and principles to problems of industrial layout or manufacturing production. A typical manufacturing engineer has the ability to make engineering drawings and read and interpret blueprints.

Job Responsibilities

• Study time, motion, methods, and speed involved in maintenance, production, and other operations to establish standard production rate and improve efficiency
• Interpret engineering drawings, schematic diagrams, or formulas and confer with management or engineering staff to determine quality and reliability standards
• Read worker logs, product processing sheets, and specification sheets, to verify that records adhere to quality assurance specifications
• Aid in planning work assignments in accordance with worker performance, machine capacity, production schedules, and anticipated delays
• Prepare charts, graphs, and diagrams to illustrate workflow, routing, floor layouts, material handling, and machine utilization
• Observe worker using equipment to verify that equipment is being operated and maintained according to quality assurance standards
• Observe workers operating equipment or performing tasks to determine time involved and fatigue rate using timing devices
• Evaluate data and write reports to validate or indicate deviations from existing standards
• Analyze manufacturing processes
• Ensure all relevant safety objectives are observed for all work completed
• Review and approve sampling procedures and designs, forms and instructions for recording, evaluating, and reporting quality and reliability data
• May write training material and conduct training sessions on quality control activities
• Considered a specialist in areas of manufacturing engineering, such as process control, standard work development, PFMEA, metrology, automated testing, torque processes, gages, and administrative application
• Prework includes reviewing process documentation, control plans, past internal audit findings, drawing requirements, SPC, among other relevant process requirements
• Planned Method Audits include at least 1hr of observation in a machining or assembly shop environment and write detailed notes on any discrepancies or deficiencies in following the documented process
• Post-work includes summarizing the PMA results, communicating to the leadership team and following up on a routine basis

Required Technical Skills

• Ability to make sketches, engineering drawings and common computations
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawing, schematics and computer-generated reports
• Previous experience with computer applications and software related to engineering field, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD)
• Print reading
• MS Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Word, Excel

Desired Technical Skills

• Gage and torque tool knowledge
• Experience with hand gages, fixture gages, click wrenches, DC tools, post tools

Required Soft Skills

• Creativity, verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving ability
• Team player and detail oriented
• Strong reading/writing/speaking skills in English
• Ability to introduce themselves to shop floor technicians and conduct effective and lengthy audits without being timid or shy

Education and Experience

• Associate's degree may be considered with more than 7 years of experience
• 5–7 years of manufacturing engineering experience required (internships accepted as part of experience)
• Must have worked in a manufacturing environment with manufacturing processes

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Manufacturing and Engineering

Industries

• Manufacturing