Senior Manufacturing Engineering Technician

SEL Engineering Services; Lake Zurich (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)

401(k) options

Health, dental, vision, life, anddis-

Job summary

SEL Engineering Services in Lake Zurich, IL is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to support new product development and complex ECOs by building reliable timelines, managing prototypes, and ensuring materials and resources are available.

The role requires a 2-year technical degree, broad knowledge across manufacturing processes, and strong problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills, with heavy emphasis on data-driven improvements and MES/ERP familiarity.

Qualifications

• Two-year technical degree or equivalent training and experience.
• Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated competence in multiple technical pathways or equivalent expertise.

Responsibilities

• Support new product/highly complex ECOs with timelines and resource planning.
• Influence designs and analyze alternatives to meet DFM guidelines.
• Autonomously manage parts, BOMs, routes, specs, and work instructions across systems.
• Create and maintain evidence for product/process validations and issue resolutions.
• Lead root cause analysis and problem solving for complex issues.
• Apply World Class Manufacturing principles and drive process improvements and automation ideas.

Skills

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Two-year technical degree

Tools

MS Dynamics AX

MS Office

SEL软件应用

BluePrint / FactoryVision

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Support new product/highly complex ECOs by developing reliable project timelines, managing prototype and pilot builds, ensuring materials and resource availability, assessing risks, planning contingencies, managing cross-functional execution, removing roadblocks, and applying lessons learned to meet deliverables.

Influence designs through data and feedback in accordance with DFM guidelines. Support solutions with analysis of alternatives. Coordinate process planning, risk assessment, and/or process capability analysis activities.

Autonomously manage parts, products, BOMs, route steps, specifications, and work instructions in multiple business systems. Peer review change orders for release.

Create and maintain technical evidence of product and process validations and issue resolutions related to prototypes, pilots, and other experiments.

Support manufacturing operations, specific technologies and/or production lines. Ensure manufacturing processes and equipment are functioning optimally within assigned area(s) of responsibility. Resolve highly complex issues, and lead root cause analysis efforts through structured problem solving methods.

Apply World Class Manufacturing principles, work measurement, flow analysis, and quality assessment to prepare process improvement and workflow/workcell design recommendations, including automation, for Production consideration. Support Production implementation efforts.

Contribute to the development of highly complex solutions and/or independently manage and develop basic to moderately complex solutions in accordance with defined engineering procedures and with engineering supervision.

Help ensure product quality through the application of engineering requirements, specifications, IPC workmanship, IEC compliance, and other standards.

Support internal quality action requests, external customer feedback resolutions, and statistical process control (SPC) implementations to drive continuous improvement.

Seek input, specify, drive and implement new system developments or enhancements to improve communications and optimize work processes.

Follow and apply SEL Values, Principles of Operation, and World Class Manufacturing. Understand. Create. Simplify. Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Two-year technical degree, or the combination of equivalent training and relevant work experience. Demonstrated technical competence for ALL "core curriculum":

• Drawing & schematic interpretation, Technical Writing, Problem Solving (such as DOE and 8D), Safety Risk Assessments, World Class Manufacturing, Mathematics (Geometry, Trigonometry, College algebra), Statistics, Applied Physics

Demonstrated technical competence in 4+ of the following 7 pathways, or recognized expertise beyond own peer group in 2+ of the following areas:

1. Continuous improvement methodologies, such as

   • JIT (Kanban, takt time alignment, continuous flow, SMED/QCO)
   • Process analysis (FMEA, PFD, Spaghetti diagram, VSM)
   • Process control (Metrology, MSA, process capability analysis, SPC)
2. Electronic circuits and components
3. Machine operation, instrumentation, and control
4. Mechanical design, Statics, CAD, tolerance analysis, and rapid prototyping
5. Metal forming, cutting/machining, finishing, and joining processes
6. Programming, scripting, data structures, data mining, and analysis tools
7. Project Management

Typically, 6+ years in a technical role supporting manufacturing processes and using MES/ERP (manufacturing execution/enterprise resource planning) systems to create and/or update BOMs, change orders, process documentation, routes, work instructions, etc.

Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment

Strong written & verbal communication skills

Background check results satisfactory to SEL

Negative drug test results

Preferred Qualifications

Mechanical aptitude

Expert use of:

• MS Dynamics AX and MS Office apps
• SEL applications, such as BluePrint, FDWeb, FactoryCore, FactoryVision, etc.
• Project Management tools, such as Confluence and JIRA

Physical Requirements

Lift, push, pull and maneuver up to 20 pounds frequently, and up to 35 pounds occasionally

Reach, bend, twist

Sit and stand for at least 8 hours

Vision correctable to 20/30 or better and ability to differentiate colors

Proficient in the use of computer keyboard devices

Competitive Pay and Benefits

Competitive pay. Superior benefits. Inspiring work.

People are at the core of our company and we hire employee-owners. We welcome you to learn more about how we support employees. We're 100% employee owned. Retirement benefits include an employer funded stock ownership plan (ESOP) and personal 401(k) options.

We offer top tier medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.

We recognize the importance of a healthy life balance and offer: 10 paid holidays, annual vacation accrual starting at 12 days, 9 paid sick days, and paid family and medical leave that covers 90% of your pay.

We foster growth and dev