Manufacturing Engineer - Welding

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Manufacturing Engineering Full Time Professional Canton, SD, US

Responsible for leading the design, installation, and improvement of production systems with an emphasis on welding. Requiring the integration of people, equipment and materials for Adams Thermal Systems products. Requires extensive interaction with Product Engineering, Quality and Operations.

Essential Job Functions

• Responsible for creating, implementing, maintaining weld documentation and trainings including WPS, PQR, Welder training and qualifications.
• Responsible for creating, implementing, maintaining and improving weld systems including GMAW, GMAW-P, GTAW, GTAW-P and CMT.
• Ability to read and interpret Code and work with team members to both adhere too and make recommendations on how to improve.
• Responsible for creating, implementing, maintaining and improving capable production processes, methods and sequences to achieve quality, throughput and cost targets. This includes working with Production Associates to optimize productivity through efficient, ergonomic and safe workstation designs, man-machine interfaces and assembly line layouts for current and new products.
• Provide day to day support for the manufacturing of products to insure meeting customer requirements including the troubleshooting of production problems throughout the plant using structured problem-solving tools.
• Develop capital budgets for departments, including budgets for process improvement, capacity increases, and quality improvements.
• Project management of new equipment including evaluation, design specification, selection, justification (AFE’s), acquisition, installation, proofing and operation for manufacturing.
• Participate in Simultaneous Engineering to assure manufacturability and cost effectiveness. May lead Process FMEA’s and participate in Design FMEA’s with cross-functional groups including Quality, Product Engineering, Customer Centers, Logistics, and Suppliers.
• Actively involved in TS16949 processes including Control Plans, PPAP’s, Process Capability Studies (Cpk), Statistical Process Controls, Gauging and Testing Techniques.
• Provides product costing and cost estimates through the development, maintenance, and application of the production standards system utilizing work measurement techniques such as time/motion studies, work content studies, etc. Analyze production costs to identify and implement improvement efforts.
• Leads, supports and encourages improvement projects (Kaizen) in conjunction with Maintenance, Manufacturing and Quality through individual and team development.
• Proposes and implements cost reduction, work flow, and quality improvement programs for manufacturing processes supportive of ATS cost, quality, delivery, and safety goals.
• Responsible for continuous improvement of plant wide material handling, packaging and product protection and material flow elop and implement overall material handling and product protection strategies.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of a productivity and efficiency monitoring system. Analyze these metrics to identify and initiate improvement efforts.
• Assist in the development, performance and optimization of preventative maintenance activities systems.
• Develop and implement equipment utilization programs and capacity planning to increase line productivity. Analyze and manage capacity of equipment including line balancing in relation to sales demand.
• Coordinates with product engineering personnel and external tool suppliers to develop production tooling in the best interest of ATS with…