MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

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General Information – Primary objectives

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• Manufacturing Engineer is accountable for improving and maintaining first pass yield for specified parts and/or processes. This is accomplished by driving continuous improvement initiatives, process development/modification, documentation of standards/best practices, and equipment onboarding/troubleshooting. Candidate shall also support cross functional initiatives with Production, Quality and Purchasing departments to meet company goals and product quality standards.
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Scope of Responsibilities
Essential Functions:

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• Troubleshooting of quality issues throughout the production process: welding, brazing, nickel plating, cleaning, and borescope inspection. Additional processes: bending.
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• Use continuous improvement and lean techniques to increase production efficiency, eliminate waste, and drive cost savings opportunities.
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• Support production staff with specification/technical knowledge, inspection techniques, weld/braze consumables management and day-to-day trouble shooting efforts.
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• Documentation and standardization of processes via work instructions and operating instructions to increase efficiency, facilitate cross-training and enable proper equipment usage.
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• Equipment and tooling on-boarding into production process to support new product, process efficiency, ergonomics or safety. Basic troubleshooting, light-level repair and/or export of orbital weld machines, orbital weld heads, steam cleaning machines, tungsten grinders etc.
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• Effective communication with production employees, management staff and cross-functional team to ensure the alignment of efforts to meet company goals.
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• Conduct classes and trainings to support continuous improvements efforts and product quality i.e. Visual Inspection and Back-to-Basics courses.
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• Manage operator qualifications to ensure production staff is qualified to perform given tasks.
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• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented team environment.
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• Ability to read, interpret, translate engineering drawings and customer specifications to drive compliance.
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• Excellent team player with a great attitude.
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Additional duties & customer/manufacturing support activities listed below but not limited to :

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• Define and evaluate new equipment and the implementation.
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• Cell Design/Re-Design
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• Research and Development
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Listen to inputs from production, management, quality, planning and purchasing personnel and use those inputs to improve the process

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Accountabilities

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• Support of Team Goals, Represent company as process expert, requisition tooling and equipment for processes.
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• Performance Measurement & Performance Evaluation
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• Meet team quarterly objectives. Adherence to goals and behaviors associate with achieving them:
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• First pass yield
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• Process compliance (welding, bending, brazing, chemical)
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• Project completion/execution
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• Aging (units over lead-time)
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Job Type: Full-time

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Benefits:

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• 401(k)
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• 401(k) matching
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• Dental insurance
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• Employee assistance program
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• Health insurance
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• Life insurance
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• Paid time off
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• Vision insurance
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Schedule:

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• 8 hour shift
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Ability to commute/relocate:

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• Elmwood Park, NJ 07407: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
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Work Location: One location