The Production Engineer will identify line priorities and address issues with the goal of meeting production targets. This role requires skilled data analysis and the ability to communicate with multiple teams and operators to develop and implement solutions.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Address quality reports and events promptly to meet production targets
- Create accurate reports about events and follow up to ensure issues are resolved
- Communicate with team and other departments to review activity during other shifts
- Identify line priorities, problems (down time, equipment issues), and risk range (how much product has been affected by an issue) at beginning of each shift
- Develop long-term improvement projects to address recurring quality issues
- Teach and mentor the other engineers, delegating tasks when appropriate
- Collaborate with other team members and departments to solve problems
- Track production, identify highest fallout, and report/address causes
- Communicate with local and international vendors and purchasing department to facilitate equipment repairs and replacements
- Report repair costs using monthly EA form
- Train production team members on new equipment or procedures
- Process flow diagrams for handling procedures
- Send out quality alerts
- Present problems and solutions to president and plant manager in weekly meetings
- Participate in Green Belt initiative: Spearhead a long-term cost-saving project, track data, take courses, present reports
- Maintain cleanliness at work-site in accordance with 5S R3 Standards:
- Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain
- Right Location, Right Quantity, Right Container
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering
- 3-6 years mechanical engineering experience in production environment
- Comfortable working independently and with others
- Results-oriented and display perseverance
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Project and process management skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Technically proficient and motivated to continuously improve
- DOE - Design Of Experiments
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS
- MBA or Masters Degree
- 6+ years experience
- Six Sigma
- CAD and Coding