Manufacturing Engineer- Material Handling

Global Connect Technologies; Dodge Center (MN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Connect Technologies seeks a skilled engineer to design weld tooling, fixtures, and templates for assembly lines in Minnesota. The role involves CAD design (SolidWorks, Creo, CATIA), creating SOPs, and supporting continuous improvement across production processes.

The candidate will lead tooling development, optimize material flow, and implement 5S/lean practices to reduce cost and improve throughput. Collaboration with customers and project teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with handling weld tooling/templates and its parts/components.
• 3D CAD Skills - SolidWorks, Creo, CATIA.
• Design & Implementation of weld and assembly tooling.
• Assembly process planning.
• Creating & updating standard operating procedures, CN and DOU the process.
• Develop manufacturing process flow with reduced cost.
• Systematic layout planning, production planning & control.
• Lean implementation.
• Racking system design for material stack up.
• Validation of Racks and cart based on the load capacity.
• Designing of cart and special purpose material handling devices.
• Designing of Templates and special purpose tools for productivity improvements.
• Quality checking gauges.
• Material flow and standardization process support.
• Daily follow up with projects and interaction with customer.
• Supporting to continuous improvement process.
• 5S line support for line implementation.

Skills

ME/IE

Tooling

Fixture

Work Instruction

time study

Tools

SolidWorks

Creo

CATIA

Job description

Skills: ME/IE, Tooling, Fixture, Work Instruction, time study

• Experience with handling weld tooling/templates and its parts/components - MUST SKILL
• 3D CAD Skills - Solidworks, Creo, CATIA - MUST SKILL
• Design & Implementation of weld and assembly tooling.
• Assembly process planning.
• Creating & updating standard operating procedures, CN and DOU the process.
• Develop manufacturing process flow and with reduce cost.
• Systematic layout planning, production planning & control.
• Lean implementation.
• Racking system design for material stack up.
• Validation of Racks and cart based on the load capacity.
• Designing of cart and special purpose material handling devices.
• Designing of Templates and special purpose tools for productivity improvements.
• Quality checking gauges.
• Material flow and standardization process support.
• Daily follow up with projects and interaction with customer.
• Supporting to continuous improvement process.
• 5S line support for line implementation.