Manufacturing Engineer Job Salina area,Kansas USA,Engineering

Manufacturing Engineer

At Bergkamp, we are a team proudly dedicated to the bigger purpose of making lives better by making roads better. We are people devoted to our craft with an all-in, respected team that has each other's backs. We are relentless in our pursuit of excellence, innovation, and asking the bigger questions. We're servant leaders, industry leaders, and good people that operate with Kansas values.

What do we do? We manufacture some of the coolest heavy equipment that is used to make and keep asphalt roads in better shape—and when our customers succeed, communities across the world thrive with better infrastructure. We think it's some of the most exciting stuff happening in infrastructure today.

We believe that a team of people who are humble, hungry and smart will deliver superior performance over the sum total of talented individuals; therefore, we are committed to achieving our mission through teamwork while honoring our core values.

A hungry team player(s) who shows active participation and engagement in department and company wide initiatives. Demonstrates a hunger for achieving results, learning, setting an example, and adding to the success of the team.

A humble team player(s) willing to collaborate, acknowledge the team's individual strengths, and put the needs of the organization before themselves. Will do what it takes to help everyone succeed.

A smart team player(s) who has a common sense understanding about people. Demonstrates good judgement and intuition of group dynamics. Understands the impact of their words and actions and use that understanding for the benefit of the team.

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing the Manufacturing Engineering activity for plant operation, providing engineering direction and support to plant production and other departments. The Manufacturing Engineer activities' major focus is directed to manufacturing systems, processes, standards, tooling and new technology, all designed to attain maximum production efficiency, at high quality standards in the most cost-effective manner.

Essential Functions

Identify and implement cost reduction, quality, safety and ergonomic improvement ideas.

Implement new manufacturing processes and technology through lean and QRM strategies.

Create and maintain Job routers to ensure optimum production efficiencies.

Perform time studies to validate job performance. Adjust job routers as determined.

Recommend and Design production fixtures and tooling.

Analyze make/buy decisions utilizing data, process flow and safety of handling products.

Develop, design, and publish procedural standards, operation/work instructions, and manuals.

Develop equipment capital justifications to support existing and new processes.

Collaborate with the Current Product Engineering team with current product modifications and tooling.

Carry out responsibilities by inspecting work and assisting with addressing complaints and/or resolving issues related to Production parts.

Create and evaluate prints and drawings to ensure quality and safety standards are met.

Establish welding and wiring standards.

Maintain proper documentation, including BOM optimized for production.

Contribute to team effort by actively participating in team meetings.

Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.

Manage machine programming for CNC equipment.

Additional Responsibilities

Collaborate with Current Product Engineering team to ensure manufacturability of new designs.

Special projects or delegated tasks from the Production Manager, if applicable.

Qualifications and Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

A bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred but not required.

A minimum of three to…