Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Overview

GF Building Flow Solutions (former Uponor) is a division of GF and a leading provider of smart and sustainable solutions for the safe and efficient use of water in buildings. Our technologies ensure comfort, hygiene, and energy efficiency in residential and commercial environments across the globe.

Join us to be part of a forward-thinking, people-centered company where your ideas and contributions truly matter.

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer supports and optimizes existing processes and manufacturing equipment to achieve safety, quality, delivery and cost goals, ensuring we meet the needs of our customers. Provide daily factory support of more than one process area. Responsible for Continuous Improvement of assigned process areas utilizing LEAN/Six Sigma tools, root-cause analysis and improvements to work instructions and operator training. Able to apply statistical methods to monitor and improve processes, including statistical process control (SPC) and design of experiments (DOE).

Understand current measurement methods and limitations of assigned process area and suggest/implement improvements. May lead medium sized teams or projects to install and qualify new equipment, solve problems and support Continuous Improvement. Responsible for the qualification of equipment modifications and standard equipment installation to support our continued growth. May be considered a Subject Matter Expert within their department for one of their assigned process areas.

Collaborates cross-functionally with Operations, Training, Quality, Maintenance, Process Development, Controls Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety and Product Management to ensure decisions are robust and well balanced. This role is considered an on-site position at our North American manufacturing headquarters in Apple Valley, MN
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• Identify safety issues within multiple processes and collaborate with Safety, Process Design & Development, Controls Engineering, Operations and Training to resolve concerns. Understand material & utility usage (air, electricity, water, gas) within multiple processes and be able to quantify potential savings through process changes.

• Optimize existing manufacturing processes to improve safety, cost, quality, and productivity. Anticipate and identify areas of improvement through observation and data analysis with minimal oversight and guidance. Do so by: knowledge and application of LEAN tools (Kaizen events, FMEAs, value stream mapping, the 8 wastes), collaboration with Operations and Maintenance to select and implement Continuous Improvement (CI) suggestions to improve the operation, fundamental understanding of manufacturing equipment or process, from the perspective of one or more engineering disciplines (Mechanical, Electrical, etc), and application of Six Sigma tools including use of the DMAIC process, and independent proficiency in simple experimental design and statistical analysis.
• Use good documentation practices, the defined change process, and broad communication, to ensure process changes are made with input from all affected parties and produce consistency across time, machines, and manufacturing sites.

• Provide daily factory support. Function as a process owner in more than one process area. Know your process capabilities and limitations. Quantify and track process capability to enable continuous improvement.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Training, etc. to understand causes and develop robust corrective actions to quality and equipment performance issues.

• Specify, justify, and manage medium sized projects for the installation and qualification of standard or new manufacturing equipment. Collaborate with Process Design & Development and Controls Engineering to improve existing processes through equipment design modifications. Participate in new equipment requirement definition and design reviews. Coordinate qualification of standard or new equipment through use of Uponor qualification procedures (i.e. IQ, Characterization, OQ,…