Reports to: Manager/Director of Engineering

Principle Working Relationships: Manufacturing, Programming, Planning, and Estimating

Functions and Responsibilities:

-Perform and teach Kaizen events to the team.

-Document processes and utilize time studies to prove out and show improvements before and after a process improvement event.

-Learn and use software to offline program all pcs of fabrication equipment. IE Laser, press break, turret punch.

-Evaluate and recommend manufacturing processes based on quality criteria and customer requirements.

-Use continuous improvement practices to make suitable improvements to product repeatability.

-Understand production and machine requirements vital to manufacturing components.

-Suggest and develop better workflow for projects work by working with responsible supervisor.

-Develop new process control and maintain work instructions to ensure equipment is being utilized with proper training and repeatability.

-Work with operations team members to evaluate existing customer jobs, processes, and workflows to identify areas that could benefit from changes and improvements.

-Create processes and procedures to help the company meet or exceed budgetary and performance goals.

-Assist with rejected parts reviews for root cause analysis of non-conformances and corrective actions.

-Must be able to communicate and problem solve in a reasonable, respectful, and professional manner with the entire FVMT team.

-Adhere to FVMT Quality Management System.

-Facilitate engineering change orders and quality documentation between FVMT programming team and manufacturing process

Education:

Associate degree in Industrial or Manufacturing engineering or relevant degree or 1-5 years experience in a related field is required.

Experience:

2+ years of hands-on experience in a regulated, job shop manufacturing environment required.

1+ years in secondary process experience (welding, machining, metal finishing, or assembly) is preferred.

!+ years of 3D modeling using SolidWorks is preferred.

1+ years of project management, organizational, analytical and communication skills.

1+ years of Windows operating systems and Microsoft Office programs