Mechanical Engineer

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CPI Electron Device Business, with a history spanning more than seven decades, is a global leader in design, development, and manufacturing of electronic components and subsystems. We have locations in the United States and Europe and serve customers in the radar, defense, industrial, and scientific markets.

CPI EDB produces thousands of products that have impacted people's lives in numerous unseen ways every day. Our highly engineered products serve as the backbone of modern‑day commercial and military communications systems, support and protect soldiers, sailors, and pilots, empower scientific discoveries and space exploration, help ensure the safety of imported foods and materials, and much more. We are looking for energetic, agile, highly motivated, and customer focused individuals to join our team and help us to continue to be a market leader, shaping the future in communications and power.

Responsible for the design and/or testing and/or repair of manufacturing equipment and/or planning the manufacturing process to maintain timely product flow for assigned product(s). Work is of technical nature where decisions are made within the limits of general practices and procedures with close supervision.

• Participates in the analyses, testing, specification, design and modification of production and test equipment, parts tooling and jugs and fixtures, required to maximize the utilization of manufacturing energy, materials and labor.
• Assists in dispositioning discrepant materials.
• Provides work direction and training to production personnel on new products and processes as required.
• Initiates and maintains test procedures for the purpose of keeping discrepancies at the lowest level within the manufacturing process.
• Participates in developing and modifying efficient manufacturing procedures.
• Assists in developing implementation plans for Engineering Change Orders (ECO).
• Design, troubleshoot, repair manufacturing equipment with a focus on electrical expertise.
• Coordinate with design engineering for the rollout of new products.
• Leverage expertise in design, materials, and processes to refine manufacturing methods, considering equipment capabilities, assembly techniques, and quality control standards.
• Develops, implements, and maintains methods, operation sequence and processes in the manufacture or fabrication of parts, components, sub‑assemblies, and final assemblies.
• Interfaces with design engineering in coordinating the release of new products.
• Estimate manufacturing/production costs, determines time standards/set time benchmarks, and makes recommendation for tooling and process requirements of new and existing product lines.
• Maintains records and reporting systems for coordination of manufacturing operations.
• Develops, evaluates, and improves manufacturing methods, utilizing knowledge of product design materials and parts, fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment capabilities, assembly methods, and quality control standards.
• Documents procedures, process qualifications, work instructions, shop aids, routings, and other vital information.
• Monitor product yield, provide product factory / field failure root cause analysis and corrective action implementation.
• Provide engineering support for the development of test jigs, fixtures, and gauges.
• Drive continuous quality improvement and cost reduction processes.
• Identify opportunities for preventing waste and inefficiency during production.
• Research and test design ideas to determine feasibility, utilizing lean manufacturing, kaizen, Six Sigma, and root‑cause analysis to formulate and support innovation, corrective actions, and improvements.
• Validate design concepts through rigorous testing, employing methodologies like lean manufacturing, Kaizen, Six Sigma, and root‑cause analysis to push for innovation.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to gain insights and direction.
• Performs other duties as needed and assigned.

• Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering – prefer…