POSITION: Manufacturing Process Engineer

LOCATION: Winchester, VA

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The Manufacturing Engineer will be responsible for identifying opportunities to improve our manufacturing processes and implement appropriate improvements to the manufacturing process. The position will require approximately 50% of the engineer's time be spent in the manufacturing environment evaluating and troubleshooting key issues to drive performance.

Job Responsibilities:

The position has primary responsibility to drive the continuous improvement and manufacturing KPIs at the Winchester, VA site, this includes, but isn't limited to:

• Daily work with operations group: Troubleshooting manufacturing issues, sampling new and existing molds, documenting process and quality control.
• Leading a team of engineering technicians on troubleshooting. Improving mold design and production output.
• Working with engineering group: Leading and assisting in projects that drive improvement in automation, capacity, productivity, cost savings measures, packaging and other efforts related to lean manufacturing.
• Support productivity project leaders in measuring performance against customer requirements and executing improvement projects for process improvement using Six Sigma methodology, analysis of data, preparing reports and implementing process mapping.
• Makes implementation and results a top priority and regularly updates the plant's implementation plan.
• Communicates the status of improvement efforts to both the plant management and other engineering resources throughout the division. Provides documentation of results and benefits achieved.
• Shares "best practice" methods and ideas across plants/divisions.

Climate:

Must work effectively in a fast-paced team environment with constant interruptions. Must clearly communicate business goals so associates understand how they contribute to the organization's success. Extensive short-term planning based on established and changing priorities. Involves ongoing problem solving. Some irregular hours may be required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BCHE, BSME, BSIE or relevant technical BS Degree.
• Working understanding of injection molding machines and processing.
• Working knowledge of six sigma tools and methodology, strong quantitative, analytical and process redesign skills, along with the excellent project management skills are required.
• Excellent communication skills to lead and support empowered employees in a team environment.
• Good presentation skills to effectively share the success and ideas.
• Able to work with minimum supervision.
• High energy, self-motivated, enthusiastic, well organized.
• Able to work in a team environment.

Preferable Characteristics:

• Understanding of Structural Foam molding process.
• Working Understanding of plastics processing including HDPE, PP, ABS, Nylon, PC.
• Demonstrated ability to not only use Six Sigma and Lean Principles such as DMAIC, SPC, Cpk, GR&R, Control Plans, DOE, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Visual Factory, TPM, Kaizen, JIT, Demand Flow, Single Piece Flow, SMED as well as other Continuous Improvement Process tools.