Production Engineer

Who we are:

Flora Craft Corporation is a family-owned, Michigan-based company and the world’s leading manufacturer of foam products for the craft and floral industries. For over 75 years we have been dedicated to making it easy for creators everywhere through our innovative and high-quality products.

At Flora Craft, we pride ourselves on our commitment to excellence, diversity, and sustainability. Our team is the heartbeat of our organization, driving innovation and providing exceptional products to our customers.

We believe in giving back to our community by supporting the arts, education, sports, and other initiatives that make Ludington a wonderful place to live and work. Our mission is to honor our heritage by delivering superior products and services, fostering a fun and inclusive workplace, and contributing positively to our community.

Join us at Flora Craft, where creativity and innovation come to life!

What you’ll do:

This position is responsible for identifying, developing, and evaluating new and ongoing FoM operations to improve product quality, increase productivity, and reduce costs:

· Assists planning, determining, coordinating, and controlling the production process.

· Reviews, diagnoses, and solves problems interfering with manufacturing operation on a daily basis.

· Ensures FoM operations follow ISO standards, standard work instructions, standard manufacturing processes, test specifications, and objectives.

· Delivers engineering solutions for operational needs.

· Implements project plans in a timely manner.

· Identifies and mitigates risks in FoM processes.

· Prepares product and process reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends through statistical methods;

· Identifies and leads cost-reduction initiatives;

· Collaborates with outside vendors and provides estimates on tooling costs and manufacturing resources;

· Represents the EST Department at customer and product development meetings and ensures effective implementation to meet customer needs.

· Promotes development of Lean manufacturing tools that will lead and drive a continuous improvement culture;

· Helps build a strong and efficient teamwork culture within the Flora Craft and EST Team by being collaborative, respectful, transparent, ethical, high-achieving and fun.

· Mentors and helps develop novice production engineers.

· Provides effective leadership by example;

· Ensures safety standards are consistently followed;

· Performs other job responsibilities as required.

What you’ll need:

· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or 1-3 years of experience in manufacturing/production; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

· Thorough knowledge and understanding of Plex Manufacturing software (or ability to learn)

· Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint);

· Solid Works CAD experience (or ability to learn)

· PLC and controls programming capability (or ability to learn)

· Strategic planning and thinking

· Effective problem solver

· Understands and utilizes Lean Manufacturing principles

· Leadership and team building

· Strong and clear communication abilities

· Project leadership or management experience

· Manufacturing knowledge

· Standardized document and report writing (SOPs, WIs, Safety Documents; P&IDs)

· Experience with statistical analysis, SPC, and DOE

· Execute experiments, analyze results, and report significance of findings with proposed next steps

· Proactive self-starter able to identify opportunities

· High initiative, adaptability, and willingness to learn

· Possesses strong written and oral communication skills

Why Join Us?

· Competitive wages

· Opportunity to work with a great culture

· Great Benefits - vacation, volunteer time-off, medical, dental, vision, FSA, company-provided life insurance and short-term disability, company sponsored long-term disability, job-related tuition reimbursement, 401(k) and profit sharing

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