Job Description
Job Role: Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Location: Marilla, NY (Direct Hire)
Industry: Aerospace / Aviation / Defense
Job Category: Engineering - Industrial / Manufacturing
Job Description:
Our client is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer t o take on a critical role in supporting the Prismatic (Complex Milling) Manufacturing Group located in Marilla, NY. The primary responsibility will be supporting the development of new product/development manufacturing processes, as well as applying continuous improvement manufacturing technologies to existing or mature production programs.
Here is what you can expect:
- Evaluate and develop new and emerging technologies in manufacturing engineering and production process development.
- Play a major role in coordinating Design for Manufacturing efforts amongst various development engineering groups for new and existing programs.
- Determine manufacturing procedures, operation sequencing, prepare tooling and gauge lists, create, and prove out N/C programs, writing of detailed operations sheets and work instructions to produce complex milled machined parts and sub-assemblies.
- 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 Client engineers, technicians, operations, and quality personnel, as well as external suppliers, to solve process related problems and mentor others.
- Work days are split between hands on shop interaction and office assignments. Many times, the Manufacturing engineers performs their own machine program proveouts side by side with shop personnel.
- 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.
- Some international and/or domestic travel as required (5% or approx. two weeks/year).
What we are looking for:
- Bachelor of Science Degree (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial Eng or Tech).
- Additional seasoned experience in manufacturing engineering that would be equivalent to what is learned in a degreed program would be reviewed for an acceptable alternative to the B. S. Degree requirement.
- A minimum of 5 years Manufacturing Engineering with milled parts experience with increasing responsibility.
- A minimum equivalent of 5 years hands on machining experience.
- CAD/CAM CNC milled parts programming experience (Siemens NX preferred). Fluent in G&M Code programming.
- Strong cutting tool and work holding knowledge, selection, and design. Quick change and automation tooling/work holding experience a plus.
- Strong manufacturing process knowledge to create efficient CNC programs for complex milled parts.
- A progressive thinker and self-starter to help advance our current methodologies and technologies as we drive to automated manufacturing cells.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills to work effectively with a variety of people.
- The ability to provide guidance and direction to other manufacturing engineers.
- Experience developing automated and advanced manufacturing systems.
- A “Lean Mindset” and leadership skills to drive change towards a “Lean factory” and “Standardized Work”. (Lean belt certification a plus)
- The ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously. Experience with MS Project is a plus.
- Strong computer skills proficiency. MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Proficiency in blueprint reading and GD&T
- 5-Axis Machining center programming experience required. Client’s 5-Axis Global Machining Platform consists of Okuma MU-4000V, MU-5000V, MU-8000V and Mazak I-600 machines. Experience with these machines is a plus.
- Experience in machining a wide variety of Aerospace materials (Aluminum, Titanium, Stainless Steels, etc) on complex milled parts.
Skills: [note bold skills and certification are required]
- CNC machining experience
- CAD/CAM
- G&M Code programming
- Cutting Tool
- 5-Axis machining center programming
- Complex Milled parts
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