Onsite Process Engineer - Lead Capex, Automation & Improvements

Trueline; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company matching

Employee ownership program

Life and AD&D insurance

Onsite manufacturing environment

Job summary

Trueline, a major manufacturer, seeks a Process Engineer to join its engineering team in Erie, PA. This onsite, hands-on role owns process improvements, equipment projects, and manufacturing capability from the plant floor through startup.

You will work across forging, form, heat treatment, machining, coating, robotics, and automation while taking ownership of capital projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology.
• 5+ years of manufacturing engineering experience in a high-volume production environment.
• Hands-on experience supporting manufacturing equipment and processes.
• Experience with CNC machining process development.
• Practical knowledge of forging, spin-forming, heat treating, CNC machining, coating, or paint.
• Demonstrated experience improving manufacturing processes using data and KPIs.
• Ability to manage engineering projects involving equipment, tooling, vendors, installation, and startup.
• Working understanding of PLC controls, robotics, and industrial automation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate across engineering, operations, maintenance, quality, and plant leadership.
• Comfortable on the manufacturing floor onsite.

Responsibilities

• Solve manufacturing and process engineering problems on the production floor.
• Develop stable, repeatable manufacturing processes with data support.
• Lead projects from specs to vendor selection through startup.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cycle time, scrap, and costs while improving quality.
• Prepare capital expenditure requests with technical analysis and cost justification.
• Improve processes via equipment changes, tooling redesign, and process changes.
• Develop process improvements using Mastercam and other modeling tools.
• Support robotics, PLC-controlled equipment, and automation with maintenance teams.
• Design fixtures and tooling for new products and procure tooling as needed.
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering to maintain process capability and stability.
• Evaluate new product designs for manufacturability and required processes.
• Research new manufacturing technologies to increase plant capability.
• Work cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, and suppliers.

Skills

Manufacturing engineering

CNC machining

PLC controls

Robotics

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Mastercam

Job description

Trueline, a major manufacturer, seeks a Process Engineer to join its engineering team in Erie, PA. This onsite, hands-on role owns process improvements, equipment projects, and manufacturing capability from the plant floor through startup.

You will work across forging, form, heat treatment, machining, coating, robotics, and automation while taking ownership of capital projects and continuous improvement initiatives.