Manufacturing Engineer - Foundry

Precision Castparts; Wickliffe (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Precision Castparts is seeking a Mechanical/Engineering professional to lead lean improvements and SOP development across the plant in Eastlake area. The role focuses on qualifying operators, running process trials, and delivering quality parts with minimal scrap.

The position requires a bachelor's degree in Mechanical or a related field, experience with lean tools, and strong cross-functional collaboration across engineering, quality, and production teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, or related Engineering discipline.
• Experience with Lean tools like Kaizen, TPM, 6S, Standard Work, Kan-Ban, Poka-Yoke.
• Time studies a plus.
• Knowledge of production processes, tooling, and automation concepts.
• Proficiency with MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Utilize lean manufacturing tools to streamline operations across the plant.
• Write area SOPs and Engineering Procedures; review operator training procedures.
• Develop qualification protocol for new operators.
• Lead process trials to find cost-effective quality delivery methods.
• Develop quality metrics scorecards; monitor scrap categories and timelines.
• Create daily metrics to reduce scrap, rework, and variation.
• Support shifts; willingness to work any shift.
• Coordinate with engineering, quality, manufacturing, vendors, and customers on NPIs.
• Audit and continuously improve snag/CNC processes and finished parts quality.
• Ensure process reliability; perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Lean Manufacturing

SOP Writing

Operator Qualification

Process Trials

Quality Metrics

Scrap Reduction

Cross-Functional Communication

Shift Flexibility

NPI Planning

Process Audit

Reliability Engineering

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or related Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

• Utilize lean manufacturing tools to streamline operations throughout plant via changes to workstation layout, material handling, or processing.
• Write area Standard Operating Procedures and Engineering Procedures as required and review operator training procedures.
• Develop protocol for qualifying new operators.
• Initiate process trials to determine most cost-effective way to deliver a quality part to our customers.
• Develop scorecard for quality metrics defined by Eastlake Handling scrap category.
• Develop additional daily metrics as needed to reduce scrap, rework and process variation
• Develop plans to improve operator related scrap and communicate improvement timeline to management.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that gets along with customers, clients, co-workers, and supervisors.
• Position supports all shifts and candidate must demonstrate a willingness to work any shift required when the need arises.
• Confer with engineering, quality, manufacturing, outside vendors and other representatives, including customers, in planning, scheduling, coordinating and implementing NPI's (fixture requirements etc).
• Audit and continuously improve snag/CNC processes and product produced by those processes to reduce variation seen at finishing, visual and dimensional.
• Assure reliability of the process.
• Other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Utilize lean manufacturing tools to streamline operations throughout plant via changes to workstation layout, material handling, or processing.
• Write area Standard Operating Procedures and Engineering Procedures as required and review operator training procedures.
• Develop protocol for qualifying new operators.
• Initiate process trials to determine most cost-effective way to deliver a quality part to our customers.
• Develop scorecard for quality metrics defined by Eastlake Handling scrap category.
• Develop additional daily metrics as needed to reduce scrap, rework and process variation
• Develop plans to improve operator related scrap and communicate improvement timeline to management.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that gets along with customers, clients, co-workers, and supervisors.
• Position supports all shifts and candidate must demonstrate a willingness to work any shift required when the need arises.
• Confer with engineering, quality, manufacturing, outside vendors and other representatives, including customers, in planning, scheduling, coordinating and implementing NPI's (fixture requirements etc).
• Audit and continuously improve snag/CNC processes and product produced by those processes to reduce variation seen at finishing, visual and dimensional.
• Assure reliability of the process.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, or other related Engineering discipline.
• Experience in using Lean Manufacturing tools like Kaizen, TPM, 6S, Standard Work, Kan-Ban, Poka-Yoke.
• Experience performing time studies a plus.
• Basic knowledge of production processes, machine tooling and operations, hand tools and automation concepts and practices required.
• Expertise in use of Microsoft Office Products (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access) required.