Senior Production Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Production Engineer serves as a leader within the design team, providing work assignment, training, leadership, and technical support. The role mentors junior engineers and helps translate engineering designs into manufacturable products, ensure smooth transitions to production, and advance continuous improvement initiatives. The position leads complex projects from sale through shipment, coordinating with engineers and other departments as needed. It also supports design for manufacturability, production troubleshooting, supplier and component management, project budgets and metrics, and collaboration between engineering and manufacturing. The role is based at Gradian’s Maple Grove Office in Maple Grove, Minnesota.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
- Understanding of typical HVAC design and the psychrometric chart.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and similar Google products.
- 3-D CAD capabilities and SolidWorks modeling.
- Strong critical thinking, organization, and attention to detail.
- Positive attitude and motivated personality.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with confidence communicating with customers and suppliers.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work as a team player.
Nice To Haves
- Project management experience is strongly preferred.
- Manufacturing experience, including sheet metal design and experience in an ISO facility.
- Job-site or field experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead large, complex projects that may require additional engineers, resources from other departments, or subprojects.
- Work on projects as an engineer from the time jobs are sold through shipment.
- Purchase components, manage vendors, follow up on orders, and address changing delivery issues.
- Develop metrics to measure project or departmental improvement.
- Research improved technology for existing products and propose changes for approval.
- Create project budgets and report on progress.
- Lead the design team in incorporating design-for-manufacturability principles from the concept stage.
- Develop and maintain design-for-manufacturability guidelines and best practices within the engineering department.
- Analyze designs for manufacturability, identify potential issues, and propose improvements to production flow.
- Work with production to troubleshoot issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
- Monitor production performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Develop metrics for engineering-to-manufacturing handoffs, including sheet metal designs and remakes and bills of materials detail.
- Propose cost-saving initiatives and process changes to improve engineering or manufacturing productivity.
- Lead production engineering meetings by facilitating discussions, driving decisions, fostering collaboration, and staying informed.
- Help develop a subject-matter-expert program and training for production engineering and operations teams.
- Drive continuous-improvement initiatives in the engineering team.
- Mentor junior engineers and technical personnel.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental plans.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Group term life insurance coverage.
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care plans available.
- Eight paid holidays, four floating holidays, and a generous PTO policy.
- 401(k) matching.
- Company-paid events.
- Annual safety shoe allowance.
- Education assistance program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
