Engineer, Manufacturing, Defense in Elkhart

Job Description Job Description

Develop, recommend, and trouble shoot tooling and equipment and manufacturing processes. Ensure new product launch success. Define and implement cost savings and process improvements.

Project Management and Press Brake experience

• Prepares work to be cost estimated by gathering proposals, blueprints, specifications, and related documents.
• Evaluates manufacturing processes by designing and conducting research, applying knowledge of product design, fabrications, assembly, tooling, and materials; conferring with equipment vendors; soliciting observations from operators
• Design, recommend, and advise on manufacturing tools, fixtures, and fabrication equipment including repair and build
• Light design for stamping dies, locating fixtures and machining fixtures
• Provide trouble shooting of metal forming operations, including stamping, welding and press brake
• Create and maintain inspection drawings of parts using AutoCAD and Inventor
• Create and maintain Process Inspection Boards
• Develop manufacturing processes and improvements
• Assure product quality by developing robust processes, inspection methods, and tooling
• Contribute to quoting of new work through analyzing previous performance and developing process workflows
• Launch new programs and assist with creating tooling, Machining trials and improvements
• Other duties as assigned

• Safety glasses with side shields as required.
• Steel toed/metatarsal safety shoes as required.
• Earplugs as required.

• High School Diploma, 2-year Technical/engineering degree – BS in Engineering (experience can substitute for degree)
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience
• Experience in Tool & Die maintenance a plus
• CNC programming a plus, as is Elumatic experience
• Project Management experience
• Press Brake experience a plus in this position
• MS Office (including Word and Excel)
• MS Projects – experience a plus

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to , , , , , or expression, , , , status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.