Manufacturing Engineer Job Springfield area,Massachusetts USA,Manufacturing / Production

Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer

Location: WMFTS - USA - Supply - Devens, MA

Location Type: On-Site

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When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

This role will focus on:
Who we are

Watson-Marlow is an industry-leading technology organisation dedicated to engineering fluid management solutions for the life science and process industries. We help our customers to supply critical products and services that range from fresh drinking water and therapeutic medicines to food products and paper. Through our solutions we help companies to be more efficient, sustainable and profitable.

Role Summary

Being a Manufacturing Engineer, you are an important part of our multifunctioning WM, America Manufacturing Inc. team. You will be driving the Mechanical Engineering development of our assembly processes in Hose, Pumps, Extrusion, Injection Molding and single use assemblies to meet the future demands of our customers and enable the achievement of Excellence in Manufacturing. Your focus will therefore be to execute on performance improvements which will support volume growth and improve KPIs critical to the manufacturing performance for existing and new products.

You

will initially be focused on:

Work with the local and global teams to duplicate and standardize the tooling, fixtures, processes and equipment to successfully deliver products that exceed our customers expectations.

Develop and execute capital requests as needed to support expansion of Deven Manufacturing site.

Work closely with Production to identify areas for improving product quality and productivity.

Development of process controls and documentation to minimize rework, scrap and other wastes.

What you’ll be doing

Our culture is precious to us; it is something special that can be felt from your first day with WMFTS and that is because we demonstrate our Values every day in what we do. The main responsibilities of the role, in line with our Values, are:

Drive continuous improvement projects using appropriate tools and techniques to optimize productivity in collaboration with our global teams.
Safe design including ergonomic attributes of the assembly equipment and cells.
Support NPD teams to ensure that all manufacturing requirements are satisfied in an efficient and capable process.
Ensure compliance with regulatory procedures, which includes responsibility for safety and quality within the assembly and wider the WM, America Manufacturing Inc company.
Arrange procurement of jigs and fixtures, and manufacture of assembly aids, as well as checking equipment for assembly, ensuring that it is safe and delivers the required performance and quality.
Oversee the specifying and purchasing of tools and gauges.
Provide front line fault-finding and diagnostics on assembly equipment and processes.
Assist in the reporting and solving of production problems and customer complaints where applicable.
Technical leader within your department.
Specify and propose in collaboration with the sending sites cost justifications on new processes and equipment for improving productivity.
Advise corrective actions to overcome problems, including visiting suppliers as required.
Issue and ensure compliance with the ECO (Design Change) system.
Produce and maintain the standard operating procedures, with the appropriate visual aids.

This is what you’ll need to be successful in this role

B.S Degree in Mechanical Engineering
5+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering or equivalent experience
Comprehensive portfolio of experience within a Manufacturing environment preferably assembly and test utilizing SPC to maintain process consistency.
Experience analyzing production assembly and test equipment and processes and documenting modifications.
Experience with work flow optimization using lean transformation tools.
Experience with 2D & 3D CAD.
Proven FMEA, DFMA and RCA experience, Six Sigma Black or Green Belt preferred.
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