Manufacturing Engineer

The Manufacturing Engineer will work with the manufacturing processes to design, integrate, or improve manufacturing systems or related processes. The engineer may also work with commercial or industrial designers to refine product designs to increase productivity and decrease costs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

• Identify opportunities or implement changes to improve products or reduce costs using knowledge of fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment, assembly methods, quality control standards, or product design, materials and parts.
• Determine root causes of failures using statistical methods and recommend changes in designs, tolerances, or processing methods.
• Provide technical expertise or support related to manufacturing.
• Manage machine programming on new projects and improvement of existing programs.
• Incorporate new methods and processes to improve existing operations.
• Work closely with technicians, management staff, administrative staff, or other engineers.
• Troubleshoot new or existing product problems involving designs, materials, or processes.
• Review product designs for manufacturability or completeness.
• Train production personnel in new or existing methods.
• Communicate manufacturing capabilities, production schedules, or other information to facilitate production processes.
• Work with equipment manufacturers to troubleshoot manufacturing equipment.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• B.S. degree in Engineering field (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial, etc.)
• Minimum 5 years related experience required.
• Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing techniques.
• CAD/CAM proficiency.
• CNC machine programming.
• Experience with Espirt programming preferred.
• Machine tooling design, molding.
• Computer proficiency.
• Planning: an ability to think ahead and plan over a 3-6 month time span.
• Project Management experience.
• Time Management: the ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.
• Technical skills in manufacturing processes and methods including flow, layout, assembly and production equipment.
• Quality orientation and attention to detail.
• Problem analysis and problem resolution.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• High performance teams and a strong team player.
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods is preferred but not required.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: None are required for this position. 

Responsibility for Work of Others: This position is not responsible for the direct work of others; however, the engineer may lead group discussions of groups of 5 or more people and work in team projects.

Language Skills:  Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents; respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community; write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format; effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.

Mathematical Skills:  Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations; apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands:  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or touch objects, tools or controls; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds while moving and carrying boxes.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Travel:  Employee may be required to travel on Company business on an occasional basis; up to 10% of time.  Some travel could include overnight accommodations.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE):  The employee is required to wear the necessary PPE while working in the manufacturing environment (i.e. - safety tipped shoes, protective eye glasses, etc.)

Gauthier Biomedical is an equal opportunity employer.