Manufacturing Engineer

Love what you do at Kinetico Kinetico believes in treating its employees with respect. They play a vital role in enabling our innovation, growth and success. We strive to provide them with opportunities to grow in a motivating environment.

Purpose:

The Manufacturing Engineer designs and implements the procedures and equipment involved in the manufacturing process ensuring the quality, cost and efficiency of products produced.

• Implements production processes that increase efficiency, reduce cost and ensure safety.
• Assesses raw materials for manufacturing and proposes changes to increase product quality and reliability and to reduce cost.
• Participates on cross functional teams focused on product design improvements, new product design and field testing.
• Researches automation techniques, testing new systems for efficiency and planning factory layouts to optimize production.
• Contributes to the design of tools, machinery or processes that increase productivity and efficiency.
• Implements process validation plans, performs process failure mode effect analysis, and prepares control plans for manufactured and vended products.
• Performs test plans for alternate materials, parts, tools or systems as necessary to introduce improvements.
• Writes engineering changes and deviations to document changes to form, fit or function of production parts or manufacturing processes.
• Evaluates returned goods for manufacturing defects, non-conformances, and product issues as needed.
• Performs dimensional and functional review of manufactured and purchased parts.

• Develops competence by performing structured work assignments.
• Uses existing procedures to solve standard problems; analyses information and standard practices to make judgments.
• Receives instruction, guidance, and direction from others.
• Exhibits conceptual knowledge of theories, practices, and procedures.
• Gains higher-level knowledge and skills, demonstrating increasing competence with respect to Kinetico’s processes and customers.
• Accountable for developing technical skills and contribution to the team.
• Asks relevant questions and checks for understanding.
• Demonstrates interpersonal skills to support others.
• Works in partnership with multiple departments.
• Demonstrates flexibility & adaptability to keep up with developing techniques and technologies.

• Learning new concepts, materials and technology that impact the manufacturability of product.
• Understanding and applying solutions considering the broader competitive marketplace and its technological advancements.

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing and industrial engineering with 0-3 years of manufacturing process or manufacturing production experience.
• Lean Six Sigma Training – Preferred Green Belt level, Black Belt a plus.
• Experience with Statistical Process Control (SPC).
• Experience using CAD and/or CAE Software.
• Experience with specifying, supporting and troubleshooting automation equipment and ancillary components.
• Experience with plastic injection molding a plus.
• Experience with plastic part design a plus.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good computer skills including word processing and spreadsheet proficiency.
• Good interpersonal/customer relation skills.
• Organizational Context:
  This Manufacturing Engineer reports to the Engineering Manager. The role interacts with all technical support, quality, manufacturing engineering, manufacturing production, research & development, and product management groups.

Founded in 1970, Kinetico was started by two engineers who pioneered the development of non-electric, fully automatic water treatment systems. Evolving from…