Senior Manufacturing Engineer 2nd shift

Hyosung Hico Ltd; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyosung Hico Ltd seeks a capable manufacturing engineer/coordinator to manage design data transfer, schedule maintenance, and support continuous improvement across the manufacturing floor in Memphis, TN. The role focuses on ensuring accurate documentation, cost-effective production, and timely material flow.

You will collaborate with plant engineers, lead training, and assist the Manufacturing Manager as needed, driving Lean initiatives and ensuring adherence to quality and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and distribute design data to manufacturing to ensure full transfer of information.
• Monitor and provide engineering support to ensure products are manufactured cost‑effectively and in control per quality goals.
• Ensure drawings, BOMs, inspection sheets, and related information are available and current throughout the manufacturing lifecycle.
• Monitor production progress to align with schedules and keep control boards updated.
• Assist or stand in for the Manufacturing Manager in meetings.
• Create and maintain manufacturing schedules to meet production targets.
• Review material requirements and ensure timely ordering and delivery of materials.
• Collaborate on equipment tooling justifications, purchasing documents, and 6S standards.
• Develop and implement continual improvement projects targeting quality, cost and delivery.
• Assist supervisors in troubleshooting process and quality issues; perform root cause analysis.
• Review and write work instructions.
• Lead training of technicians in Lean methods and process changes.
• Train new Manufacturing Engineers and other engineers in lean methods.
• Review specs for new equipment and TPM requirements.
• Support equipment installation and qualification activities.
• Analyze plant layout and propose improvements to manufacturing flow.
• Track and analyze labor content to set standards and evaluate variances.

Job description

THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

• Prepare and distribute design engineering data to the manufacturing area to ensure the complete transfer of information from design engineering to manufacturing technicians in a timely manner.
• Monitor and provide engineering support to ensure customer products are manufactured and processes are operating economically and in control per management goals and quality expectations. Analyze, write, and implement deviations, develop and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure drawings, bills of materials, inspection checksheets, and other information is available and used during manufacturing. Ensure the documentation and document books are completed, accurate, up to date, and with the product throughout the manufacturing lifecycle.
• Monitor production progress to schedule and ensure production control boards and schedule displays are updated.
• Assist and fill in for the Manufacturing Manager when needed in meetings.
• Create and maintain manufacturing schedules to ensure manufacturing schedules are met.
• Review customer delivery projects for raw materials, indirect materials, and consumables required in manufacturing. Ensure the raw materials, indirect materials, and consumables are ordered, delivered, and transacted to the manufacturing technicians in a timely manner to ensure continuous manufacturing.
• Collaborate with plant engineers to develop equipment and tooling justifications, quotation requests, acceptance criteria, and purchasing documentation. Ensure standard tool boards are in place and used. When necessary, develop the purchasing documentation and order standard tools.
• Develop and implement approved continual improvement projects involving process control, equipment, capacity and productivity targeting quality, cost and delivery performance.
• Assist production supervisors in trouble-shooting process and quality problems. Act as a first level deviation approver. Perform root cause analysis, develop and implement countermeasures based on PDCA process.
• Review, edit, and write work instructions. Ensure availability to technicians in the work areas.
• Lead the training of manufacturing technicians through work instructions, standardized Lean methodologies, and process changes. Ensure the technician skillset is accurately displayed in the training matrix and develop technician training plans for upcoming special work, upskill, and increased capability.
• Lean the training of new Manufacturing Engineers and other support Engineers.
• Review specifications for new equipment, TPM requirements and operating work instructions.
• Support equipment installation, process description, and operational/performance qualification activities for manufacturing equipment and manufacturing processes. Ensure all related documentation is in compliance with internal requirements including but not limited to 6S, crane logs, tool control, TPM, etc.
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• Analyze plant layout and propose improvements for manufacturing flow.
• Ensure labor is collected, analyzed, and reported in a time manner. Assess and measure labor content to set process standards and evaluate variances.

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