Manufacturing Engineer Specialist - The Toro Company

Toro • Shakopee, MN

218d

About The Position

The Manufacturing Engineer or Manufacturing Engineer Specialist for Cutting Products at The Toro Company's Shakopee plant is responsible for determining methods, processes, and equipment required in the manufacturing of bedknives and reels for mowers primarily used on golf courses. This role involves developing, analyzing, and documenting cost information for new product development, design and cost improvement, maintenance, and managing product cost to target. The position supports grinding and associated manufacturing operations within the Cutting Products Value Stream at the TORO factory in Shakopee, MN.

Requirements

• Bachelor's of Science in Industrial, Manufacturing, or Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of five (5) years' related experience for Manufacturing Engineer.
• 2 year technical degree in machine tool technology in similar manufacturing engineer work and minimum of ten (10) years' experience for Manufacturing Engineer Specialist.
• Strong technical skill or education.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong employee/customer relations skills.
• Good computer software skills: MS suite, Excel, Teams.
• Knowledge of SAP MRP system to include creation of part routings and BOMs.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in metal fabrication processes and technologies.
• Working knowledge of CNC programming on grinders and machining centers.
• CAD/CAM: Creo, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Mastercam.

Responsibilities

• Provides engineering expertise to aid in the development of annual and long-term manufacturing business plans focused on bedknives and reels.
• Designs, justifies, develops and implements the manufacturing engineering portions of the plans.
• Prepares IARs; coordinates the investigation, selection, installation, prove-out and training to successfully integrate projects into the factory.
• Reviews new parts in the concept stage and makes recommendations to standardize features, promote cost effective zero defect manufacturing, and improve functionality that support DFMA.
• Determines parts to be produced within the Cutting Products Value Stream.
• Provides manufacturing input and coordination to Corp. Design project teams to assure timely and effective new part introductions.
• Prepares supporting documentation (cost estimate/tooling budgets) for new project development milestones and all other product revisions, as assigned.
• Provides analyzed cost data to Engineering, Marketing, and Finance for use in determining project direction, product pricing, parts pricing, and internal rate of return investment calculations.
• Provides direct interface to Corp. Engineering on process capability, materials utilization, and design alternatives to optimize value.
• Continually pursues cost savings initiatives plantwide.
• Analyzes and provides solutions for problems which adversely affect quality, productivity, safety, flexibility and cost.
• Participates on RPS/RCCM Corrective Action teams.
• Develops, updates and maintains process documentation and costing data for manufacturing equipment.
• Supports creation and maintenance of SOPs, standard work, ancillary lean documentation.
• Reviews and evaluates the sourcing of parts pertaining to the production unit and recommends alternate sourcing when appropriate.
• Provides direction for long term sourcing decisions.
• Provides support for key or specialized processes with functions such as tool design, tool layouts, CNC programming, set-up data/procedures and metallurgical analysis.
• Applies Total Quality, Project Management and LEAN principles in the daily performance of the job.
• Engages on plant-wide teams, such as: safety committee, employee club, kaizen events, SafeStart instructor, ad hoc CA teams, monthly STOP safety audits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Machinery Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree