Manufacturing Engineer

Carter Lard Consulting; City of Yonkers (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Carter Lard Consulting in Yonkers, NY, is seeking an experienced Production Planning Engineer to support the Production Engineering Manager. The role focuses on planning, scheduling, and optimizing manufacturing processes across site operations.

You will analyze production specs, determine feasible processes, prepare material schedules, and train staff on procedures. Travel to customer sites may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years' experience in plant engineering or production planning.
• BS in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience with production processes, scheduling, shipping logistics, and facility equipment.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Production Engineering Manager in planning functions.
• Research and analyze production specs and plant capacity to determine processes.
• Plan and issue parts and material schedules coordinating with production sequences.
• Coordinate site production/modification activities at customer sites and attend meetings.
• Review modification procedures, prepare tools and production aids.
• Research and schedule manufacture of jigs, fixtures, and production aids.
• Conduct design reviews, create BOM, develop work procedures and train staff.
• Perform cost estimates, time studies, and apply Kaizen to improve processes.
• Review weekly project status and identify efficiency improvements.
• Maintain internal SOPs to ensure ISO-9002 compliance.

Skills

Production planning

Scheduling

Kaizen

Cost estimation

Communication

Problem solving

Education

BS in Engineering

Job description

Reports To: Manager Production Engineering

Dept: Prod. Engineering Job Description:

• Provides assistance to the Production Engineering Manager for all aspects of planning functions.
• Researches and analyzes production specifications and plant capacity to determine manufacturing processes.
• Plans, prepares, and issues parts and material schedules that anticipates and coordinates with production sequences.
• Coordinate site production/modification activities at customer site, attend customer/company meetings, review and implement modification procedure, prepare tools and fixtures and production aids, identify and propose changes to processes and procedure.
• Researches, plans and schedules manufacture of jigs, fixtures, and production aids based on requirements of production sequences.
• Conduct design reviews, create work breakdown/BOM, develop work procedures for production line, and train production personnel on work procedures/process methods and safety requirements.
• Perform cost estimate, time study and apply Kaizen to improve production processes.
• Reviews planning weekly status of project percent completion.
• Conducts reviews and recommends improvements to efficiency of manufacturing operations, including maintenance of issued schedules, utilization of manpower, and operations that delay schedules or decrease operating efficiency.
• Create and maintain internal operating procedures for ISO-9002 compliance.

Job Specification:

• Must have at minimum, five (5) year's experience in plant engineering or production planning.
• A Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering (or equivalent experience) is required.
• Must have direct work experience with production processes, scheduling and shipping logistics, and facility equipment including machinery, overhead cranes, jigs, fixtures, rigging, and production aids.
• Must have excellent communication and problem solving skills. This position requires direct exposure to work conditions on factory shop floor and at customer site locations.
• Must be able to travel to customer site locations for site production support.