Sr Manufacturing Project Engineer

Company With around 480 locations in over 40 countries, thyssenkrupp Materials Services is the biggest materials distributor and service provider in the western world. The broad service spectrum offered by the materials experts enables customers to focus on their individual core business. The area of Materials Services spans two strategic areas: global materials distribution as one-stop-shop - from steel and stainless steel, tubes and pipes, nonferrous metals and specialty materials to plastics and raw materials - and tailored services in the areas of materials management and supply chain management.

An extensive omnichannel architecture offers 250,000 customers worldwide cross-channel, round-the-clock access to more than 150,000 products and services. A highly efficient logistics system ensures that all requested services are smoothly integrated into customer production processes "just-in-time" or "just-in-sequence."

Copper and Brass Divison Sales is a distributor and processor of aluminum, stainless steel, copper, brass, bronze and more quality materials serving markets across North America, including Canada and Mexico. By providing customers with what they want, when they need it, Copper and Brass Sales is able to help them succeed in today's challenging global business environment. The company's focus on the Aerospace, Automotive, Electrical, Medical and Oil & Gas Industries allows them to offer these market segments expertise specific to their needs.

The daily commitment of its employees to provide premium service focused on the customer first has earned Copper and Brass Sales the position of a respected leader in the nonferrous metals industry for over 80 years.

The Senior Manufacturing Project Engineer is a hands-on engineering and project execution role responsible for supporting the startup of new manufacturing facilities and replicating established manufacturing processes for electrical conducting bar (busbar) products. Safety is the first consideration in every layout, equipment, tooling, contractor, installation, commissioning, and startup decision. The role translates proven manufacturing concepts into safe, efficient facility and work-cell designs, equipment and tooling specifications, installation plans, and commissioned production assets.

The position is expected to take an end-to-end view of each work cell: from incoming material through processing, handling, inspection, and finished-part transfer. Designs should minimize unnecessary movement and handling, improve ergonomics and maintainability, and incorporate practical automation wherever it improves safety, repeatability, quality, throughput, or total operating effectiveness. The role emphasizes disciplined execution and replication rather than unnecessary reinvention of established manufacturing processes.

• Champion a safety-first engineering culture. Apply risk reduction at the design stage and ensure layouts, equipment, tooling, guarding, utilities, access, material handling, installation, and commissioning activities support safe operation and maintenance.
• Develop and maintain detailed 2D/3D CAD facility layouts incorporating manufacturing equipment, work cells, utilities, material handling, operator access, maintenance clearances, safety zones, and future expansion requirements.
• Design end-to-end work-cell flow around the established manufacturing process, optimizing the movement of people, raw material, work-in-process, finished product, tooling, and information through the cell.
• Identify and develop opportunities to reduce manual handling, excess travel, congestion, and non-value-added movement, while incorporating automation or mechanized handling where technically and economically appropriate.
• Ensure work-cell designs consider ergonomics, safe access, maintainability, quality inspection points, material presentation, equipment interfaces, automation integration, and practical production support requirements.
• Translate established manufacturing requirements into equipment, tooling, utility, infrastructure, controls, and installation specifications.
• Develop technical scopes of work, equipment specifications, bid packages, and RFQs; participate in supplier evaluation and technical selection.
• Coordinate equipment manufacturers, integrators, electrical contractors, mechanical contractors, installation contractors, and internal stakeholders, with clear expectations for safety,…