Design Engineer: Tooling & Process Improvement

Pexco; Athol (ID); Presencial; USD 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Pexco is seeking an engineer to design or redesign tooling and processes to efficiently manufacture products. You will review customer designs, propose improvements, and coordinate with multiple departments to ensure tools meet design criteria and quality standards.

The role emphasizes designing safe, efficient processes, reducing costs, and maintaining strong customer relationships while working within an office and manufacturing environment.

Formación

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• BS degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar field or appropriate experience.
• No experience after college graduation required but 3+ years preferred.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Previous computer experience in spreadsheets and CAD required.
• Must be able to relate to non-technical people effectively.
• Ability to work on many different projects at once.
• Ability to distill, organize, and explain essential technical issues and effectively train other staff.
• Capability of dealing with customers (their technology/tooling/engineering representatives) in difficult situations while maintaining a professional demeanor.
• Demonstrate excellent business judgment.
• Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, stoop and move about the facility.
• Sit/work at CAD station for 8+ hrs/day.
• Works in an office and manufacturing environment.
• Occasionally exposed to dust, odors, fumes and noise associated with extrusion, machining and fabrication manufacturing processes.

Responsabilidades

• Reviews designs received from customers for suitability to the company's processes and manufacturability and suggests changes or improvements to enhance the value to the customer and reduce cost to the company.
• Listens to the customers' engineers as they describe their product needs and then fulfills those requirements by creatively employing the companies resources, or designing appropriate new processes to produce parts that meet the customers’ requirements.
• Discusses the company’s capabilities and the customers’ needs with the customers' engineers to arrive at mutually satisfactory part designs.
• Designs process improvements with the specific intent of improving worker safety, reducing labor, improving repeatability and overall product quality, and improving productivity throughput.
• Participates in the new tooling development process, ensuring that the tools produced by the Machine Shop are capable of meeting the design criteria and are up to Pexco’s high standards for design and workmanship.
• Supports other departments in their engineering needs. Actively seeks ways to provide internal design needs in the shortest possible lead time and with the simplest, most effective designs.
• Provides the Engineering Manager with timely feedback about the status of projects, problems, solutions, and information about other situations that may appropriately receive attention at that level.
• Solves problems with the company's manufacturing processes. Assists Production Personnel at all levels with engineering related process problems, as appropriate, or as directed by the Engineering Manager.
• Informs the Engineering Manager of critical deadlines, customer requests, issues concerning the company's designs and manufacturing systems, and other appropriate or significant information through written and/or verbal communication in a timely, competent and reliable manner.
• Keeps current on new developments and/or changing trends in the national markets of interest to Pexco, through personal contacts, reading materials, vendor representatives, etc., and advises the Engineering Manager of beneficial actions which need to be taken.
• Works with the Engineering Manager to prioritize problems and to determine an appropriate course of action to address them.
• Works with the Engineering Manager to establish effective cost accounting procedures for designs and processes, documenting the savings that could be made by effecting recommended changes.
• Coordinates the tooling needs for new products with the Engineering Manager, Machine Shop Supervisor, Die Development Technician(s), Quality Assurance Manager, and others involved in producing first article samples, to ensure that the tools, gauges, and systems delivered to the Manufacturing department are complete and will perform satisfactorily.
• Ability to deal with sensitive issues in a manner which maintains customer satisfaction and goodwill towards Pexco.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and delegate work to make the most effective use of available time, recognizing when assistance from the Engineering Manager is required.
• Ability to relate to all other staff, in a productive, professional manner.
• Ability to remain professional and calm in a hostile or crisis situation.
• Performs other accountabilities, as apparent or assigned.

Conocimientos

Communication

Time management

Multitasking

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar

Herramientas

CAD

Excel

Descripción del empleo

Pexco is seeking an engineer to design or redesign tooling and processes to efficiently manufacture products. You will review customer designs, propose improvements, and coordinate with multiple departments to ensure tools meet design criteria and quality standards.

The role emphasizes designing safe, efficient processes, reducing costs, and maintaining strong customer relationships while working within an office and manufacturing environment.