Manufacturing Engineer: Mechanical Design & Process Improvement

Electronic Theatre Controls; Town of Middleton (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee-owned company

Benefits from day one

Climate-controlled work environment

Job summary

Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer with a strong mechanical engineering focus to join our team. You will collaborate with R&D, Manufacturing and Quality to develop and improve products and processes.

Responsibilities include mechanical design, tooling and fixtures, process development, prototyping and testing methods to ensure product quality. You’ll help bring new products from design to production while driving cost, quality and efficiency improvements.

Qualifications

• Technical Bachelor's Degree
• All levels of previous job-related experience will be considered
• Communication Skills
• Demonstrates basic written/verbal skills
• Has good grasp of grammar and sentence structure for technical writing
• Listens/gives constructive feedback
• Good group interaction skills
• Ability to follow directions and project plans
• Creativity/Problem Solving
• Demonstrates ability to solve problems of limited scope and perform root cause analysis
• Analyzes data using standard, straightforward methods
• Grasps technical concepts and asks for clarification and direction when needed
• Ability to implement designs for well-defined blocks
• Understands and applies accepted engineering principles and practices
• Assists with design or modification of a product, service, or process

Responsibilities

• Performs assigned project tasks under direct supervision of more senior-level engineers.
• Participates in the development effort under the direction of management and more senior team members
• Makes design modifications or improvements to development projects with supervision
• Maintains project reference documentation.
• Develops test and verification procedures
• May be involved in continuing engineering maintenance and manufacturing floor support of existing products.
• Provides task completion time estimates.
• Becomes familiar with tools and applications utilized by department.
• Learns department and corporate policies, procedures and plans.
• Analyze and redesign products for improvements using design of experiments (DOE), finite element analysis (FEA), Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) or other engineering tools
• Analyze production processes; develop and implement process improvement plans
• Analyze, test and develop products and process improvements for cost reduction opportunities
• Develops and implements process standards with affected departments
• Assists in optimizing the layout and design of production processes and facilities
• Coordinates the setup and installation of production lines and equipment
• Complete ergonomic and human factor studies to improve the workstation and work environment.
• Complete job and task analysis studies and implement the improvements
• Assists in managing the release of products into manufacturing
• Ensures Engineering Change Requests (ECR) and Engineering Change Orders (ECO) are processed appropriately.
• Develops the manufacturing plan and its approval
• Assists in designing and developing new tools and jigs
• Ensures documentation is complete and accurate before product is released to production
• Ensures Bill of Materials (BOM) are structured appropriately are and accurate
• Ensures part numbers are assigned and new parts have accurate descriptions
• Uses Quick Response Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing and Lead-time reduction.
• Works with regulatory compliance agencies such as Underwriters Laboratory (UL), EPA, CE, OSHA on compliance and manufacturing related tasks
• Works with suppliers to ramp up production of parts and to resolve issues on existing parts.
• Uses Lean manufacturing tools including Value Stream Maps, 5S...etc
• Prepares supply chain maps and reports.
• Uses personal computer and computer controls to analyze and solve engineering problems
• Uses Solidworks CAD software to design engineering solutions
• Uses programming such as Labview, C++, databases for engineering solutions
• Uses electrical test equipment (i.e. voltmeter, scope, amp meter..etc) to analyze problems
• Uses mechanical test equipment (i.e. dial calipers, height gage..etc) to analyze problems
• Designs mechanical mechanisms to solve engineering problems.
• Applies knowledge in AC/DC motors, motor drives and controls to solve problems
• Understands CNC machining, CNC programming, metal fabrication and processing.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Communication skills

Root cause analysis

Team collaboration

Technical writing

Creativity

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

LabVIEW

C++

FEA

DOE

Electrical test equipment

Mechanical test equipment

Job description

Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer with a strong mechanical engineering focus to join our team. You will collaborate with R&D, Manufacturing and Quality to develop and improve products and processes.

Responsibilities include mechanical design, tooling and fixtures, process development, prototyping and testing methods to ensure product quality. You’ll help bring new products from design to production while driving cost, quality and efficiency improvements.