Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

30451 Simpson Rd, Abbotsford, BC V2T 6C7, Canada

This senior manufacturing position is accountable for leading the planning, organizing, and controlling of all manufacturing activities and processes necessary to support the delivery of the Phantom Experience to our customers.

This is accomplished by driving a culture of safety, quality (effectiveness), and productivity (efficiency). As a senior technical leader on the Phantom team, the Advanced Manufacturing Engineer will provide expertise in achieving corporate and department quality goals, mentor junior engineering staff, consistently demonstrate the organization’s core corporate values, and champion Phantom’s overall strategic vision.

This position reports to the Senior Manager Manufacturing Support. Other positions reporting to the Sr. Mgr., Manufacturing Support are the Quality Engineer, and Maintenance Supervisor. There are no positions reporting to the Advanced Manufacturing Engineer.

• To Speak the Truth
• To Serve Each Other
• To Practice Stewardship

• Ensure all manufacturing safety regulatory policies and procedures are always implemented and maintained.
• Participate in the continuous improvement of the Safety Program, including development of written safe work instructions and completion of assigned safety tasks.
• Fulfill General duties of Employers (as set out in WCA and OHS Reg.).
• Participate in incident investigations and investigate unsafe conditions and take corrective action.

• Provide advanced on-the-job training, mentorship, direction, feedback, and career planning support to junior engineers and production staff.
• Maintain strict confidentiality when interacting with sensitive information.
• Ensure adherence to HR (and Corporate) Policy.
• Lead and/or participate in cross-functional meetings regarding the resolution of complex, ongoing challenges, and spearhead the design of new procedures, plant layouts, and process plans.

• Provide technical and subject matter expertise and leadership to manufacturing processes, automation, CNC Workstation experience.
• Work closely with Product Design team to ensure that new designs are manufacturable in a repeatable, efficient, and perfect quality manner.
• Analyze and design advanced lean manufacturing systems to optimize space, equipment, material, and personnel. This includes the development of Standardized Work Combination Tables and the integration of automated solutions.
• Ensure manufacturing conforms to agreed requirements, processes deliver intended outputs.
• Identify major strategic opportunities for improvement.
• Act as the facility's subject matter expert concerning new manufacturing technologies, equipment, and applicable legislation.
• Lead the execution of complex PFMEAs and DOEs to ensure proper process implementation, tolerance stack-up control, and optimization.
• Make certain all production commitments are met by engineering functional tooling, fixtures, and jigs, and ensuring optimized working processes are employed.
• This role requires deep experience in automation and will play a key role in automation strategy in our manufacturing processes.

• Ensure specifications are met for new and existing processes, products, and services.
• Read, analyze, and interpret common industrial, manufacturing and technical procedures, professional journals, schematics, diagrams, drawings and blueprints.
• Specification of equipment, automation, and tooling builds – managing the equipment build projects and leading the commissioning processes and installation.

• Provide input to product development during the design phase of new products, assess complex process requirements, and provide guidance for design-for-manufacturability (DFM).
• Lead and manage all current and new product introductions.
• Develop, test, and validate complex manufacturing processes.

• Develop, implement and maintain unique identification of products (and services) when necessary to ensure conformity…