Manufacturing Engineer

The Judge Group; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking a Production/Operations Analyst to help optimize manufacturing processes and align daily schedules with capacity and demand.

Responsibilities include analyzing performance metrics, learning production processes, applying Lean principles, identifying quality defects trends, and collaborating with manufacturing, engineering and cross-functional teams to reduce non-value-added work and improve cost, flow, safety and throughput.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business-related field such as Finance, Business Administration, Business Management, Operations Management, Economics.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Effective time management, communication, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze performance to daily schedules or orders.
• Learn production processes to ensure correct sequencing and resource alignment.
• Identify safety and ergonomic issues and work to reduce or eliminate them.
• Identify quality defect trends via root cause analysis and provide recommendations.
• Suggest process improvements to reduce non-value-added work and improve cost and flow.
• Support disruption recovery planning by analyzing capacity and constraints.
• Help stabilize current production while planning for rate changes and new models.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, engineering and production-support teams; be a self-starter and team player.

Skills

Time management

Communication

Organization

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance/Operations or related

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Lean Manufacturing

Job description

Onsite

Position Overview:

• Analyzing performance to daily schedules or orders
• Learning the production processes to ensure correct sequencing and resource alignment
• Reducing or eliminate safety and ergonomic issues
• Identifying quality defects trends through root cause analysis and providing recommendations to reduce or eliminate defects
• Providing recommendations on process improvements that reduce non-value added work which would improve cost and flow.
• Depending on the internal and external impacts to the team, you may be building disruption recovery plans using resource capacity and constraint analysis to get back to the baseline plan while working to mitigate impacts to the downstream work statement and major milestones.
• Our teams are very busy focused on stabilizing the current production system while looking ahead at future rate changes and introduction of new models/customers into our build plans.
• With so many moving pieces, improving our production system processes can be initiated and implemented by anyone, regardless of their level or years of service.
• All it takes is the right person who will ask questions and be willing to work with all support functions to find ways to reduce risks and improve safety, quality, cost and flow.
• Candidates will be engaging with all manufacturing, engineering, and production-supporting organizations and must be a self-starter and a collaborative team player.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in business related curriculum such as: Finance, Business Administration, Business Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, or Economics. Skilled in effective time management, communication, and organizational skills. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite products.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• 1 or more years of experience working in an engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and/or production environment.
• 1 or more years of experience defining, developing, implementing, or improving production processes.
• 1 or more years of experience working with Lean Manufacturing with knowledge of lean principles.
• Experience developing and deploying standard processes. Proficient in structured problem solving.

Typical Education/Experience:

Bachelor's degree and typically 1 or more years’ related work experience, a Master’s degree and typically 1 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.