Manufacturing Engineer - Lean, Automation & CI

Dover Corporation; Hamilton (OH); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

OPW, part of Dover Corporation, is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for our Hamilton, Ohio location. You will drive continuous improvement, specify efficient tooling and processes, and interface with product engineering to ensure design-for-manufacturing is applied.

Ideal candidates have hands-on automation experience, Lean/Kaizen expertise, and strong problem-solving skills. The role requires leading teams, capital project input, and Oracle data integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering or related field.
• Two plus years of manufacturing engineering experience in similar roles.
• Hands-on automation experience.
• Extensive technical skills in manufacturing processes and methods including flow, plant layout, assembly and production equipment.
• Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing techniques.
• Production Planning Process (3P) experience.
• CNC Machine Tools and Practices.
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing.
• Quality orientation and attention to detail.
• Problem Solving Techniques (PDCA).
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to lead high-performance teams and be a strong team player.
• Windows Office Applications

Responsibilities

• Determines and specifies, revises and/or reviews the most efficient and cost-effective methods, operation sequence and tooling for the fabrication of parts, finishing and assembly components, subassemblies for final products.
• Uses or considers advanced manufacturing technology including but not limited to, automation, vision systems, and data collection when developing or improving processes.
• Application of Lean Principles and concepts to develop processes.
• Must be able to improve manufacturing processes to meet goals of Safety, Quality, Cost and Delivery.
• Provides technical guidance and liaison to product operations, assists the supervisor on new techniques and may assist in the determination of causes of rejected parts and their disposition.
• Provides guidance to lower-level manufacturing engineers, tool designers and technicians in various projects and responsibilities.
• Provides finalized details for manufacturing processing costs for new product quotes.
• Interfaces with Product Engineering for design and development of new products.
• Assure new products go through the design for manufacturing process prior to release and prior to finalization of tooling to reduce cost and delivery.
• Ability to foresee common manufacturing difficulties and plan options.
• Demonstrate leadership in the assigned group of processes.
• Develop standard work and lead Continuous Improvement projects to achieve predetermined goals.
• Manage justification, schedule and budget for Capital Expenditure Projects.
• Provide input for manufacturing assembly costs and equipment recommendations.
• Prepare and present plans for the above and coordinate deployment of project plans.
• Work closely with the cost department in assuring all costs, processes and routings are input into Oracle in the most expedient manner possible for all newly released products.
• Assure all engineering notices are processed correctly and in a timely manner.
• Provide Leadership, process data, drawings and schedules for Tool Design, CNC Programming and the Maintenance department.
• Attend meetings as needed to support organization activity. Interfaces with customers as required.

Skills

Hands-on automation

Lean manufacturing

Kaizen

Production planning

CNC machining

Quality mindset

PDCA

Windows Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

CNC machines

Oracle ERP

Job description

OPW, part of Dover Corporation, is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer for our Hamilton, Ohio location. You will drive continuous improvement, specify efficient tooling and processes, and interface with product engineering to ensure design-for-manufacturing is applied.

Ideal candidates have hands-on automation experience, Lean/Kaizen expertise, and strong problem-solving skills. The role requires leading teams, capital project input, and Oracle data integration.