Engineer Manufacturing
About The Position
GW Lisk designs, manufactures, and provides post-warranty support for complex, high-reliability products used in space, aerospace, industrial, and automotive applications. Its manufacturing environment serves global customers across high-volume/low-mix and low-volume/high-mix products, with an emphasis on complex machining, plating, welding, assembly, and testing processes. The Manufacturing Engineer supports new product development and introduction throughout all stages of product lifecycles and takes an active, hands-on role in improving manufacturing capabilities and developing manufacturing and testing practices. The role involves control-system design and support, factory automation, production-process analysis, continuous improvement, equipment performance, and product and process quality. The position also evaluates capital equipment investments, prepares cost justifications and equipment specifications, and works with outside vendors. Compensation is an annual base salary of $74,000–$95,000, based on experience. GW Lisk is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes employment decisions without regard to legally protected characteristics.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering field.
- 3–5 years of related experience in an engineering role.
- Experience analyzing process capabilities and developing and implementing product development and process improvement plans.
- Hands-on experience implementing factory automation, including PLC, HMI, robotics, and vision systems.
- Adept with MS Project for tracking project schedules.
- Lean manufacturing experience.
Nice To Haves
- 3–5 years of relevant Controls Engineering experience.
- Familiarity with Allen Bradley, Cognex and Keyence vision systems, and Fanuc and Epson robots.
- Lean Six Sigma Certification.
Responsibilities
- Ensure effective communication between mechanical and electrical systems, including PLC, HMI, vision systems, and robotics; maintain software revision control of electrical systems.
- Lead control-system design for new equipment and planned upgrades.
- Monitor and analyze equipment performance to identify and implement operational improvements.
- Interface with Test Engineering to support communication between equipment and databases.
- Analyze existing production processes, identify work elements, time them, and optimize process balance.
- Provide equipment support and troubleshooting expertise.
- Conceptualize, specify, and implement industrial automation to reduce manual labor and improve quality.
- Apply continuous-improvement and Lean manufacturing techniques to refine production processes.
- Facilitate and support visual management in the production environment.
- Evaluate capital equipment investments and prepare cost justifications.
- Design and prepare concept control schematics for new equipment or modifications to existing equipment; write equipment specifications for outside vendors.
- Identify and implement solutions to safety, quality, productivity, cost, and delivery issues.
- Design testing methods, test finished products and process capabilities, and establish standards to validate manufacturing process requirements.
- Determine failure root causes using statistical methods such as design of experiments and SPC, potentially changing designs, tolerances, or processing methods.
- Participate in new product development engineering efforts and critical design reviews to reduce development costs and maximize product useful life.
- Design error-proofing mechanisms, establish standards, and validate manufacturing processes.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge through educational workshops, professional publications, networks, and professional societies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
