Manager Manufacturing Engineering

Manager Manufacturing Engineering

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or 9 years of equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of engineering or operations experience in a manufacturing environment.
• At least 3 years of direct management experience.
• Experience in process engineering from raw material to finished goods.
• Strong communication and influencing skills are required in the form of written, verbal, and presentation.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and develop new and emerging technologies in manufacturing engineering and production process development.
• Oversees and coordinates a team of technicians to ensure efficient execution of production schedules, quality standards, and safety protocols.
• Determine manufacturing procedures, operation sequencing, writing of detailed operations sheets and work instructions.
• Hands on approach in supporting continuous improvement efforts for existing production processes.
• Prepare, monitor, and update engineered or estimated time standards for set up and run hours, man to machine ratios and economic run quantities for each component’s processes throughout the entire parts routing.
• Provide detailed cost estimates for new business capture and process improvement efforts.
• Leadership in new manufacturing capital equipment evaluation, justification, purchasing and implementation.
• Daily interaction with a variety of disciplines, including other Moog engineers, technicians, operations, and quality personnel, as well as external suppliers, to solve process related problems and mentor others.
• Project leadership opportunities assigned by the Group Lead and/or Manufacturing Engineering Manager.
• Support of production automated manufacturing cells, driving process stability to achieve reduced attended labor and human factor variation. Assignment/Ownership of a dedicated manufacturing cell is likely.
• Assure compatibility of engineering drawings and specifications with manufacturing and fabrication capabilities by reviewing drawing and making suggestions for changes and revisions to enhance producibility.
• Provide accurate and useable N/C programming tapes by converting detailed N/C program outlines into specific coded machine instructions. Also assists machine operators with program prove‑out.
• Originates and/or makes studies directed towards more efficient manufacturing of parts. Includes recommendations for changes in equipment, processes methods, materials and designs.
• Follows up jobs during initial stage of manufacturing to ensure processing and effect revisions to tooling and processing as necessary.
• Prepares rework operation sheets for salvage of discrepant parts. Follows through with corrective action to reduce possibility of reoccurrence of discrepant parts.
• Establish tooling, gaging and fixture concepts. Review and approve tool, gaging and fixture design drawings. Estimates hours required to design and also fabricate tools and fixtures.
• May work with Moog vendors to coordinate operation sheets containing outside and inside operations.
• Ability to aid in producing N/C programs.
• Assists Group Leader on cost estimating effort on new proposals.
• May technically direct, guide or train Associate Manufacturing Engineers.
• Assure the acceptance and practice of fundamental safety principles by employees and management.
• Travel may be required up to 10%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Black Belt and/or Six Sigma Certified, or Lean Certification.
• Hands on experience setting up and operating SMT machines.