Manufacturing Engineer

Professional Plastics•Orchard Park, NY

27d•Onsite

About The Position

The Manufacturing Engineer designs, optimizes, and maintains production processes, equipment, and workflows to maximize efficiency, quality, and safety. This role involves developing CNC programs, troubleshooting manufacturing issues, training on CNC machinery, and designing fixtures and tooling. The engineer will also be responsible for creating job travelers, optimizing setup times, and providing technical support to the engineering team. Additionally, the position contributes to the design of lean manufacturing cells to optimize space, equipment, material, and personnel utilization.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical / Industrial Engineering or related field from an accredited university / college or 10+ years related experience and/or training
4+ years CNC experience
4+ years CNC programming experience
4+ years Mastercam/SOLIDWORKS experience

Nice To Haves

Formal training in lean manufacturing is desirable

Responsibilities

Develop CNC programs for production runs on mills, lathes, and routers
Modify existing programs and make manual program adjustments as necessary
Troubleshoot issues during the manufacturing process
Train on set up, programming, and operation of CNC machines
Responsible for design of fixtures and tooling
Write setup instruction and tool list to optimize setup time
Observe operation of machine on trial run to improve program cycle time
Create job travelers and manufacturing operations from material and hardware to outside process
Analyze drawings, sketches and designs to determine the best program and process to manufacture precision parts
Provide support to engineering team as needed by creating technical drawings and digital models to meet deadlines
Assist in the design of lean manufacturing cells to optimize space, use of equipment, material, and personnel