Manufacturing Engineering Technician

Novanta Inc.; City of Syracuse, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Novanta is seeking a Manufacturing Engineering Technician to optimize production processes and support maintenance and troubleshooting activities. You will work closely with production teams to improve quality, reduce waste, and verify process effectiveness through tests and documentation.

Candidates should read technical drawings, analyze problems, and adapt to new technologies; you will train staff, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to sustain manufacturing

Qualifications

• Experience with manufacturing processes and equipment.
• Ability to read technical drawings and schematics.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and processes.
• Familiarity with quality control processes and methodologies.
• Proficient in technical problem-solving and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Improving manufacturing processes to increase efficiency and reduce waste
• Conducting equipment maintenance and troubleshooting and providing technical support to production teams
• Performing root cause analysis on manufacturing issues and implementing corrective actions
• Conducting tests and experiments to validate and verify manufacturing processes
• Training production staff on new processes and equipment, developing an maintaining manufacturing documentation

Skills

Reading technical drawings

Technical problem-solving

Analytical skills

Willingness to learn

Collaborative teamwork

Quality control knowledge

Job description

Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing. Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.

Job Overview

As a Manufacturing Engineering Technician, you will optimize manufacturing processes to ensure product quality. You may also perform maintenance and troubleshooting activities.

Responsibilities

• Improving manufacturing processes to increase efficiency and reduce waste
• Conducting equipment maintenance and troubleshooting and providing technical support to production teams
• Performing root cause analysis on manufacturing issues and implementing corrective actions
• Conducting tests and experiments to validate and verify manufacturing processes
• Training production staff on new processes and equipment, developing an maintaining manufacturing documentation

Qualifications

• Quality Experience - Have experience with manufacturing processes and equipment
• Skill - Be able to read and interpret technical drawings and schematics
• Competency - Be willing to learn and adapt to new technologies and processes.
• Knowledge - Be familiar with quality control processes and methodologies.
• Skill - Be proficient in technical problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Learning on the Fly - Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
• Problem Solving - Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
• Collaborative Team Player - Collaborative: Is intentional about seeking input and including others when making decisions. Humility: self aware, vulnerable, willing to reflect critically on opportunities for self improvement. Interpersonal Influence: listens, masters productive conflict, works across functions and BU boundaries.Trustworthy: Builds trusting relationships by being transparent and acting with integrity.

Equal Opportunity

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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About Novanta

Solving complex challenges, delivering innovations that matter! Novanta is a leading global supplier of core technology solutions that give medical, life science, and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers a competitive advantage. We combine deep proprietary expertise and competencies in precision medicine, precision manufacturing, robotics and automation, and advanced surgery with a proven ability to solve complex technical challenges. This enables Novanta to engineer proprietary technology solutions that deliver extreme precision and performance, tailored to our customers' demanding applications. The driving force behind our growth is the team of innovative professionals who share a commitment to innovation, the Novanta Growth System, and our customers’ success. Novanta’s common shares are quoted on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "NOVT".