Manufacturing Engineer

Barber-Nichols; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barber-Nichols is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to develop, evaluate and improve manufacturing methods across operations, leveraging knowledge of materials, processes, equipment capabilities, and tooling/fixture design.

You will drive process documentation, coordinate equipment needs, and work with Project Engineering and other departments to meet customer requirements and schedules while upholding safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing/Industrial/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• 10 years of manufacturing engineering experience in a CNC machining environment.
• 3 years of lean manufacturing experience in a CNC environment.
• 3 years' experience with recognized quality systems (ISO, AS, QS, TS).

Responsibilities

• Review process documentation to meet customer requirements and develop verification documents.
• Develop documentation, order equipment and coordinate activities to meet schedules.
• Verify production requirements and improve department capability metrics.
• Maintain facility maintenance schedules for safety and quality.
• Collaborate across departments to ensure data transfer meets customer needs.
• Ensure safety and quality throughout all processes.
• Identify and implement improvements in safety, quality, delivery and cost.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Continuous improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Manufacturing process knowledge

Safety compliance

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CNC machining equipment

Quality systems guidance (ISO/AS/QS/TS)

Job description

Barber-Nichols (BN) is a premier provider of custom turbomachinery solutions serving the Defense, Aerospace, Cryogenics, and Energy industries. Our team consists of industry leaders who collaborate closely with equally accomplished customers to deliver technologies that advance their markets and establish enduring partnerships. At BN, we foster a results-driven environment that values professional growth, rewards achievement, and supports innovation. From designing the blower for NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan to engineering critical components for the U.S. Navy’s MK-48 program, BN’s portfolio spans some of the most exciting and impactful projects in the world. For those seeking to contribute to impactful projects alongside a highly skilled team, BN offers an exceptional place to build your career.

Position Summary:

The Manufacturing Engineer develops, evaluates, and improves manufacturing methods throughout operations, utilizing knowledge of materials, manufacturing processes, equipment capabilities, and tooling/fixture design.

Key Results Areas:

1. Review process documentation to ensure customer requirements are met and develop documentation needed to verify and validate requirements.
   • Review standard production requirements by customer and industry to develop critical documents for production.
   • Write and review work instructions to ensure customer requirements are met and critical control points are defined.
   • Identify and validate lessons learned with Project Engineering group to drive continuous improvement.
   • Ensure that all lessons learned are incorporated into work instructions and drawings to ensure that the quality of the product and BN processes continually improve.
   • Determine processes that need to be outsourced and create instructions to ensure requirements are clear for the purchase order.
2. Develop documentation, order equipment and coordinate activities to ensure that schedules are met.
   • Research and identify equipment or tools needed to improve capacity and performance to ensure productivity improvements for the department.
   • Monitor equipment installations and repairs to ensure they meet requirements and stay on schedule.
   • Research and identify equipment software improvements to improve capacity and performance to ensure productivity improvements for the department.
   • Complete the purchase requisition for needed equipment and submit to Purchasing to ensure the project schedule can be met with suppliers lead times.
   • Review requirements, work instructions and drawings with lead machinist to ensure customer requirements can be met.
   • Verify and validate that all machines are working properly and preventive maintenance is performed per the schedule.
   • Review preventive maintenance data to ensure the effectiveness of the maintenance program.
   • Evaluate Material Review Reports (MRR) for the department, provide root cause analysis and implement corrective action plans to ensure process improvement of future builds.
   • Develop the preventive maintenance schedule and monitor the adherence to the schedule to ensure equipment operates efficiently.
3. Verify and validate the production requirements of the product and ensure that the department capability metrics are achieved.
   • Evaluate processes that are yielding low quality and pull together a problem-solving team to improve quality.
   • Monitor department consumables on key items and create purchase requisition when items are at the re-order point to ensure production schedules can be maintained.
   • Review production data against throughput and capacity data and raise resource issues to management.
4. Ensure facility maintenance schedules are maintained and achieved to ensure the safety of employees and the quality of the product.
   • Develop schedule and monitor suppliers providing preventive maintenance on cranes and forklifts to ensure functionality and safety is maintained.
   • Determine new equipment locations and monitor/hire/contract the subcontractor work to ensure BN requirements are met.
   • Monitor key facility systems and ensure subcontractors are scheduled in a timely manner to ensure safety of employees.
5. Collaborate with all departments to ensure that information and data transfers effectively to meet customer needs and organizational objectives.
   • Identify daily safety, quality, delivery cost issues and report to management in the daily work status meeting.
   • Collaborate with engineering to ensure work instructions and drawings for production are released and accurate in order to properly meet customer requirements.
   • Collaborate with Purchasing to ensure that parts and equipment needed to meet customer requirements are identified, ordered from an approved supplier and received per the schedule needs.
   • Collaborate with Quality to validate requirements and disposition nonconforming parts.
   • Collaborate with Planning to modify the schedule when maintenance and repair needs require equipment to be down.
6. Ensure safety of the employees and quality of the products throughout all processes.
   • Able to locate Quality Management System procedures, have read and understand relevant procedures and are aware of all procedural changes when they occur.
   • Follow all production procedures to drive quality outcomes.
   • Assist with root cause analysis to ensure that safety and quality problems properly evaluated and corrected.
   • Compliant with all safety procedures to ensure proper protective equipment usage to ensure personnel safety.
7. Continuously improve procedures, processes and methods to effectively meet customer needs and organizational objectives.
   • Identify and implement improvements in process and product relating to safety, quality, delivery and cost and elevates them to the Manufacturing Manager.
   • Assist on continuous improvement teams to help drive department improvements.

Requirements:

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, an individual must possess the knowledge, training, experience and abilities required.

Education and Training

• Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience:

• Ten years of manufacturing engineering experience in a CNC machining environment.
• Three years of lean manufacturing experience in a CNC machining environment.
• Three years' experience with recognized quality systems (ISO, AS, QS, TS)
• Working knowledge of metal machining, welding, and non-destructive testing processes, and familiarity with casting, plating, coating, and finishing processes