Manufacturing Engineer - Shell Lake
KLM Careers
- Shell Lake, WI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Fabrication: Experience with turret, fiber laser, and brake press equipment beneficial
- Powder coating: Experience with powder coating aluminum and color changes beneficial
- Assembly processes, Sub & Final: Experience with tooling and automation beneficial
- Knowledge of Safety & Health practices
- Experience using sound project management practices
- Understand process and workflows for new products and product revision implementation
- Experience implementing Lean principles
- Experience with fixture design, automation, and process flow
- Knowledge and experience using CAD software, ideally SolidWorks
- Understand and create budgets for ongoing operations and CapEx planning
- Human Factor Engineering:
- Leads a Culture committed to respect for people, continuous improvement, Safety and Quality
- Train team members on new processes, equipment, or tools
- Supports a Safety culture and implement Safety initiatives that drive the organization to achieve the goal of zero Safety risks
- Asses ergonomic impacts on new and existing processes
- Nonconformance Support:
- Set up part/material inspection from incoming vendors and or internal manufacturing
- Assist with developing and implementing quality standards
- Monitor and analyze quality performance
- Develop corrective actions, solutions, and improvements
- Develop Quality Control standards and assurance instruments to ensure the integrity of the lifecycle of a products manufacturing process
- Process Development:
- Investigate and resolve operational, system, machine, and process problems
- Identify and implement changes or improvements to manufacturings systems and processes
- Manage standard workflows and documentation
- Optimize facility layouts, production lines, and machine operations and performance
- Work with new and existing vendors regarding materials, specifications, and quality
- Use operational excellence techniques to optimize flow and maximize profitability such as line balancing, basic industrial engineering, operator balance charts, and cellular layouts
- Establish standards and processes for overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) including Total Productive Maintenance and SMED (quick changeover)
- Fixture and tooling designs for product improvements and new product implementations
- Product Development Support:
- Partner with Marketing & Sales, Product Development, and outside customers to launch new products and address issues with existing products
- Investigate and resolve operational, system, machine, and process problems
- Inspection of parts from prototyping and provide feedback to PD and or Manufacturing
- Contribute voice of manufacturing to Product Development
- Continuous Improvement:
- Apply continuous improvement methods to improve Quality and reliability of operations, systems and processes, machines and equipment
- Drive operational Excellence projects including lean manufacturing, root cause analysis and problem solving, 5S, and other techniques for improved Safety, Quality, efficiency, and productivity.
- Programming:
- Program machinery using associated software.
- Blanking software (TruTops, Stream)
- Bending software (TruTops, Stream)
- CNC router (Solidworks - HSMWorks- MasterCAM)
- PLC interface
- Turret programming
- Other software platforms as needed
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned by the Manager.