Manufacturing Engineer: Drive Throughput & Quality

ERMCO Inc.; Dyersburg (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ERMCO Inc. in Dyersburg, TN, seeks a Manufacturing Engineer to plan, direct, and coordinate manufacturing processes at our headquarters. The role focuses on engineering content and permanent process or equipment solutions within the agreed scope.

You will partner with Quality, Maintenance, and Reliability to apply PFMEA, control plans, SPC, and validation methods; drive improvements using PDCA, standard work, and cost-aware design changes. relocation assistance provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• Demonstrated structured problem-solving using direct observation, data, root-cause analysis, experimentation, and validation.
• Working proficiency in process capability, SPC, PFMEA, control plans, time and capacity analysis, and technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Observe work at the Gemba to define the current condition, required condition, obstacles, and measurable target before selecting solutions.
• Analyze cycle time, queues, labor and material flow, changeovers, process capability, downtime, defects, and schedule performance to identify constraints and variability.
• Improve the plant constraint while avoiding local changes that do not improve total throughput, lead time, quality, safety, or risk.
• Improve manufacturing methods, workstations, layouts, tooling, fixtures, controls, material handling, automation, and process parameters.
• Partner with Quality to apply PFMEA, control plans, SPC, capability analysis, root-cause analysis, and validation methods.
• Use PDCA and structured experiments to test countermeasures, separate assumptions from facts, and verify results before standardizing.
• Convert validated improvements into standard work, settings, drawings, specifications, control plans, training, and operating routines.
• Partner with Maintenance and Reliability to eliminate recurring failures requiring design, process, controls, access, or maintainability changes.
• Include reliability, maintainability, safe access, diagnostics, component standardization, spare parts, and lifecycle cost in equipment changes and specifications.
• Develop technical scopes, cost estimates, schedules, risk reviews, and business cases for modifications, rebuilds, replacements, and capital projects.
• Coordinate vendors and support design review, installation, commissioning, acceptance testing, training, and post-implementation verification.
• Coach operators, technicians, and partners in observation, cause-and-effect thinking, experimentation, and follow-through.
• Maintain a regular plant-floor presence and clearly communicate progress, risk, assumptions, decisions, and support needs.

Skills

Problem solving

Gemba

Data analysis

Cross-functional influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

PFMEA

SPC

Job description

ERMCO Inc. in Dyersburg, TN, seeks a Manufacturing Engineer to plan, direct, and coordinate manufacturing processes at our headquarters. The role focuses on engineering content and permanent process or equipment solutions within the agreed scope.

You will partner with Quality, Maintenance, and Reliability to apply PFMEA, control plans, SPC, and validation methods; drive improvements using PDCA, standard work, and cost-aware design changes. relocation assistance provided.