Manufacturing Engineer
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About The Position
Summit Polymers is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to join our team in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. This position involves hands-on technical work focused on the assembly of injection molded plastic parts for automotive interior trim, including full center consoles and various kinetic components such as air conditioning outlets, cup holders, glove boxes, and bins. The Manufacturing Engineer will provide technical support and leadership to manufacturing production teams, emphasizing operational excellence on a daily basis. In this role, the engineer will be responsible for all assembly machine activities associated with new product launches. This includes collaborating with the product development team and corporate manufacturing technical leaders to ensure that products are designed for manufacturability and quality. The engineer will specify robust assembly machines that incorporate effective error-proofing, good ergonomics, and facilitate efficient standardized work. Additionally, the engineer will provide feedback to corporate manufacturing technical leaders to enhance assembly machine standards and will work on developing standardized work, machine quote specification sheets, capacity analysis, work balance tables, and assembly cell layouts from the New Business Acquisition (NBA) phase through the end of the program. The Manufacturing Engineer will participate in machine design review meetings, monitor the progress of assembly machine construction to meet program and plant timing requirements, and participate in machine review and validation runs of assembly equipment prior to shipment to the manufacturing plant. Collaboration with corporate packaging engineers and suppliers will be essential to develop external packaging and internal work-in-process packaging that ensures safe and defect-free transportation to subsequent operations and customers. Moreover, the engineer will work closely with the SLMS engineer to develop flow racks for the assembly cell and will be responsible for writing standardized work instructions to ensure operators can perform their tasks safely, with the proper quality, and within the designated time. The role also includes leading and performing engineering changes to assembly machines from various technical perspectives, assisting maintenance in developing effective preventative maintenance schedules, and supporting the production team in enhancing efficiency, quality, and safety through standardized work tools and practical problem-solving methods. Troubleshooting process or equipment-related problems and conducting process audits to ensure compliance with standardized work and quality systems are also key responsibilities of this position.
