Manufacturing Engineer Job Thornton area,Colorado USA,Manufacturing / Production

About Barber-Nichols:

Barber-Nichols (BN) is a leading provider of custom turbo machinery for the Defense, Aerospace, Cryogenics and Energy industries. This is a unique place. Our company is made up of people that are at the top of their game. And we are working with customers who are at the top of their game. Together, we help our customers revolutionize their markets and build amazing relationships with them in the process.

If you're seeking to work with an amazing team in a “get-it-done” atmosphere that supports your development, and recognizes your achievements, BN is the place for you.

Position Summary:

The Manufacturing Engineer develops, evaluates, and improves manufacturing methods throughout operations, utilizing knowledge of materials, manufacturing processes, equipment capabilities, and tooling/fixture design.

Key Results Areas:

Review process documentation to ensure customer requirements are met and develop documentation needed to verify and validate requirements.

a. Review standard production requirements by customer and industry to develop critical documents for production.
b. Write and review work instructions to ensure customer requirements are met and critical control points are defined.
c. Identify and validate lessons learned with Project Engineering group to drive continuous improvement.
d. Ensure that all lessons learned are incorporated into work instructions and drawings to ensure that the quality of the product and BN processes continually improve.
e. Determine processes that need to be outsourced and create instructions to ensure requirements are clear for the purchase order.

Develop documentation, order equipment and coordinate activities to ensure that schedules are met.

a. Research and identify equipment or tools needed to improve capacity and performance to ensure productivity improvements for the department.
b. Monitor equipment installations and repairs to ensure they meet requirements and stay on schedule.
c. Research and identify equipment software improvements to improve capacity and performance to ensure productivity improvements for the department.
d. Complete the purchase requisition for needed equipment and submit to Purchasing to ensure the project schedule can be met with suppliers lead times.
e. Review requirements, work instructions and drawings with lead machinist to ensure customer requirements can be met.
f. Verify and validate that all machines are working properly and preventive maintenance is performed per the schedule.
g. Review preventive maintenance data to ensure the effectiveness of the maintenance program.
h. Evaluate Material Review Reports (MRR) for the department, provide root cause analysis and implement corrective action plans to ensure process improvement of future builds.
i. Develop the preventive maintenance schedule and monitor the adherence to the schedule to ensure equipment operates efficiently.

Verify and validate the production requirements of the product and ensure that the department capability metrics are achieved.

a. Evaluate processes that are yielding low quality and pull together a problem-solving team to improve quality.
b. Monitor department consumables on key items and create purchase requisition when items are at the re-order point to ensure production schedules can be maintained.
c. Review production data against throughput and capacity data and raise resource issues to management.

Ensure facility maintenance schedules are maintained and achieved to ensure the safety of employees and the quality of the product.

a. Develop schedule and monitor suppliers providing preventive maintenance on cranes and forklifts to ensure functionality and safety is maintained.
b. Determine new equipment locations and monitor/hire/contract the subcontractor work to ensure BN requirements are met.
c. Monitor key facility systems and ensure subcontractors are scheduled in a timely manner to ensure safety of employees.

Collaborate with all departments to ensure that information and data transfers effectively to meet customer needs and organizational objectives.

a. Identify daily safety, quality, delivery cost issues and report to management in the daily work…