Process Engineer: Lean & Cobots on the Floor

The Baker Company; Sanford (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Baker Company in Sanford, Maine, is seeking a hands‑on Process Engineer to turn ideas into practical solutions on the factory floor—improving quality, safety, efficiency, yield, and flow with technologies like cobots, additive manufacturing, automation, and rapid prototyping.

You will develop and implement new methods, program equipment, and create process documentation to ensure safe and effective production improvements, while expanding emerging manufacturing technologies across the plant.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent relevant education and/or process engineering experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Office.
• Self‑starter who is able to work independently while meeting expectations with minimal supervision.
• Strong organizational and time management skills – able to effectively plan, prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects.
• Strong attention to detail with excellent communication skills.
• Highly motivated, results‑oriented, customer‑focused, and committed to achieving organizational goals.
• Excellent listening, interpretation, and reasoning skills.
• Experience with Continuous Improvement tools and methodologies is a plus.
• Ability to work more than 40 hours per week when required.

Responsibilities

• Create detailed work instructions and visual aids to support acceptable production productivity and quality standards.
• Estimate production set up and run times, material costs, and perform time studies to provide cost analysis.
• Propose, sponsor and lead projects that improve manufacturing performance, reduce costs, improve yields, or reduce cycle times using Lean manufacturing tools. Analyze work flow, space requirements, and equipment layouts.
• Assist in designing testing methods to evaluate process capabilities, establish standards, and validate process requirements.
• Work with plant safety and engineering groups to ensure manufacturing processes, equipment, and proposed improvements meet applicable safety requirements.
• Create and maintain production data and Routings (Bills of Operations).
• Assist with the selection, installation, setup, and startup of machines and equipment within production areas, including programming, workholding, and fixturing.
• Support collaborative robotics (cobot) applications - from identifying opportunities and developing concepts through programming, integration, and continuous improvement - to make work safer, smarter, and more productive.
• Help drive the adoption and expansion of 3-D printing/additive manufacturing, using rapid prototyping and production tooling to move ideas from concept to the shop floor faster.
• Make every effort to focus on doing‑it‑right to make sure the customer is happy or satisfied with our units
• Provide value to our customers by using Lean tools and concepts to identify and eliminate waste in all forms (scrap/rework, transportation, motion, waiting, inventory, over production, over processing, and under‑utilization of people). Uses systemic thinking by seeing processes from end to end and works to challenge the status quo to eliminate the root cause of problems. Is involved in individual and/or team activities that involve using Lean tools and concepts to improve the flow of information and material.
• Other duties as required

Skills

Self-starter

Strong organizational skills

Time management

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Listening and reasoning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Baker Company in Sanford, Maine, is seeking a hands‑on Process Engineer to turn ideas into practical solutions on the factory floor—improving quality, safety, efficiency, yield, and flow with technologies like cobots, additive manufacturing, automation, and rapid prototyping.

You will develop and implement new methods, program equipment, and create process documentation to ensure safe and effective production improvements, while expanding emerging manufacturing technologies across the plant.