MES Engineer

Trane Technologies • Grand Rapids, MI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The MES Engineer provides technical support for production processes—including welding, fabrication, and assembly—in the manufacture of HVAC final finishers. The role analyzes, plans, implements, and improves site-level manufacturing process documentation to optimize the production of custom-modified HVAC equipment and subcomponents while meeting regulatory requirements, customer expectations, and business goals. The position is based at the company's Grand Rapids, Michigan campus and requires daily onsite presence, five days per week.

Requirements

• Four or more years of related work experience; co-ops and internships may count toward this experience.
• Experience with lean manufacturing and root-cause analysis.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures and drawings.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Initiative to further develop technical and interpersonal skills and career path.
• Strong work ethic, positive attitude, customer focus, teamwork, and results orientation.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related field.
• Experience with DELMIA Apriso MES and Oracle ERP.

Responsibilities

• Work with factory staff and manufacturing engineers to configure the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) as manufacturing processes and products change.
• Maintain shop-floor information systems and process documentation.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and product engineers to create shop-floor documentation for manufacturing requirements, including welding, fabrication, assembly, and product testing.
• Maintain effective change control of process documentation.
• Ensure shop documentation complies with internal and external process requirements and captures and communicates critical-to-quality and critical-to-safety work steps to operators.
• Use shop-floor systems to communicate special features for custom-modified products.
• Evaluate and improve shop-documentation compliance with standard work and production-floor best practices.
• Prepare and implement plans to document and control process changes and implement new product introductions effectively and on schedule.
• Work with factory staff and manufacturing engineers to determine tools, methods, equipment, materials or parts, and manufacturing-process sequence.
• Collect and organize data from shop-floor systems into actionable information to improve process efficiency.
• Identify and resolve material-routing issues in shop-floor systems.
• Troubleshoot MES technical and configuration issues and train personnel to use the system.
• Translate internal and external customer requirements into MES functional-development requests and test the resulting developments.
• Support lean initiatives, including 5S, Rapid Improvement Events, site KPIs, Managing for Daily Improvement, and 9-step problem solving.

Benefits

• Health insurance and holistic wellness programs with incentives, available from day one for the employee and family.
• Fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• Up to 15 vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, and additional options supporting volunteer and parental leave.
• 401(k) match.
• Educational and training opportunities through company programs.
• Tuition assistance and student debt support.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level