Manufacturing Engineer: Lean Ops & Process Improvement

SMS Infocomm; Edgewood (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SMS Infocomm is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to oversee manufacturing performance, quality, and on-time delivery. You will drive waste reduction using lean principles and collaborate with the team on continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities include developing robust processes, validating production tests, training assembly staff, and leading cost-reduction efforts while ensuring safety and efficiency across the manufacturing floor.

Qualifications

• Preferably graduated from industrial engineering.
• Minimum 1–3 years experience in Industrial Engineering role.
• Lean Manufacturing/Continuous Improvement Kaizen Leadership.
• PLC and HMI programming and interface will be a plus element.
• Process mapping experiences of repair or manufacture operation

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight of the manufacture of products to ensure that engineering documentation is consistent with manufacturing and service methods employed.
• Work within the company policies to manage the aspects of new product introduction.
• Verify performance validation tests for introduction into Production Test.
• Determine root cause of handling problems of products.
• Assist with Assembly and Test personnel training.
• Provide leadership and commitment in supporting continuous improvements in quality, productivity, and delivery performance by deploying a continuous improvement framework.
• Supports Environmental Health and Safety projects to promote a Zero Incident Safety Culture.
• Manage all assigned projects in support of division, plant, and project objectives.
• Develop approaches to solving problems in processes, tooling, equipment, facilities, and cost.
• Plans, details, and implements required industrialization methods, tooling, and equipment in the manufacturing and service operation.
• Appropriate and track expense and capital expenditures within planned budgets.
• Develop and implement cost reductions to meet or exceed departmental and plant goals.
• Design, develop, and implement new manufacturing processes to support customer products.
• Develop application software and tooling for a comprehensive set of complex machines and mechanical process steps within a manufacturing sector.
• Implement plan and lead the assessment of the capability of machines and process applications using Design of Experiments and statistical methods across the full manufacturing process, ensuring maximum utilization of critical resources, maximum throughput, minimum cost and capacity growth.
• Lead disciplined process for solving complex single stage or multistage product, process, component, and related problems that affect the efficient operation and/or manufacture of products through the full manufacturing process.
• Project Management - Ability to manage a single line engineering project with a limited number of participants. Create a project/change management plan, establish and distribute project roles, and communicate what is needed from the project participants in order to make the project successful.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Teamwork

Multi-tasking

Independence

Overtime flexibility

Education

Industrial engineering degree

Tools

PLC programming

HMI programming

Job description

SMS Infocomm is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to oversee manufacturing performance, quality, and on-time delivery. You will drive waste reduction using lean principles and collaborate with the team on continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities include developing robust processes, validating production tests, training assembly staff, and leading cost-reduction efforts while ensuring safety and efficiency across the manufacturing floor.