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Summary

We are looking for a talented manufacturing engineer to oversee and improve manufacturing processes at Williams, White & Company. The manufacturing engineer's responsibilities include identifying areas for improvement, driving continuous improvement initiatives, maintaining high levels of manufacturing and product quality, as well as ensuring cost-efficiency and conformance with regulatory standards.To be successful as a manufacturing engineer you should be able to work effectively within a team and have a high level of technical expertise. An outstanding manufacturing engineer should be able to develop and optimize manufacturing processes for maximum efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and quality.

Essential Functions

+ Assists or provides recommendations to plan, estimate, or schedule production work.

+ Ensures adherence to safety rules and practices.

+ Monitors manufacturing processes to identify ways to reduce losses, decrease time requirements, or improve quality.

+ Review and calculate labor, material and other production costs along with reviewing schedules and future production requirements to assist management in decision making.

+ Recommends corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality or reliability.

+ Identifies opportunities for improvements in quality, cost, or efficiency of automation equipment.

+ Monitors existing processes to assure they continue performing at optimal levels of efficiency.

+ Evaluates manufacturing equipment, materials, or components.

+ Identifies and/or implements new or sustainable manufacturing technologies, processes, or equipment.

+ Assists in developing manufacturing infrastructure to integrate or deploy new manufacturing processes.

+ Assists in developing production, inventory, and/or quality assurance programs.

+ Manages or assists with work assignments that may include cross-functional or project team responsibilities (e.g. continuous improvement).

+ Supports equipment maintenance and repair services and make sure that manufacturer's procedures and instructions are followed in order to keep production equipment operational.

+ Performs other duties required by the Company.

+ Effectively interacts with managers, supervisors, and hourly team members across all departments.

+ Travels on an as needed basis.

+ Additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

Qualifications and Skills

Required:

+ Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, industrial, or mechanical engineering required.

+ 5+ years manufacturing or industrial engineering required.

+ Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems

+ Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

+ Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.

+ Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

+ Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

+ Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

+ Strong Analytical skills and takes initiative.

+ Excellent problem-solving skills.

+ High level of technical expertise.

+ Ability to lead and work independently.

+ Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred:

+ Lean manufacturing experience preferred (Six-Sigma Green or Black Belt certification).

+ Experience using CAD, CAM, data analysis programs, and related software preferred.