Job Title: Senior Manufacturing Engineer
Location: East Aurora, NY 14052
Job Type: Direct-Hire
Note:
- Hours are 7:00 am-3:00 pm 8 Hrs M-F
- This is for a direct hire opportunity. There will be relocation assistance for candidates outside of Western New York. This position will be 100% onsite.
- The salary range for this role is $80-$140K
- Direct Hire fee is 20% off annual salary
Job Description:
- Client is seeking a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer to take on a critical role in supporting the Prismatic (Complex Milling) Manufacturing Group located in East Aurora NY.
- The primary responsibility will be supporting the development of new product/development manufacturing processes, as well as applying continuous improvement manufacturing technologies to existing or mature production programs.
- In this role, you'll take ownership and drive results performing challenging and non‑routine manufacturing engineering applying standard engineering techniques, procedures, and “out of the box” thinking.
- In addition to accountability for the manufacturing processes in East Aurora, NY you will also help support our other aircraft facilities worldwide as required.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate and develop new and emerging technologies in manufacturing engineering and production process development.
- Play a major role in coordinating Design for Manufacturing efforts amongst various development engineering groups for new and existing programs.
- Determine manufacturing procedures, operation sequencing, prepare tooling and gauge lists, create, and prove out N/C programs, writing of detailed operations sheets and work instructions to produce complex milled machined parts and sub-assemblies.
- Hands on approach in supporting continuous improvement efforts for existing production processes.
- Prepare, monitor, and update engineered or estimated time standards for set up and run hours, man to machine ratios and economic run quantities for each component's processes throughout the entire parts routing.
- Provide detailed cost estimates for new business capture and process improvement efforts.
- Leadership in new manufacturing capital equipment evaluation, justification, purchasing and implementation.
- Daily interaction with a variety of disciplines, including other Client engineers, technicians, operations, and quality personnel, as well as external suppliers, to solve process related problems and mentor others.
- Workdays are split between hands on shop interaction and office assignments.
- Many times, the Manufacturing engineers performs their own machine program prove outs side by side with shop personnel.
- Project leadership opportunities assigned by the Group Lead and/or Manufacturing Engineering Manager.
- Support of production automated manufacturing cells, driving process stability to achieve reduced attended labor and human factor variation.
- Assignment/Ownership of a dedicated manufacturing cell is likely.
- Some international and/or domestic travel as required (5% or approx. two weeks/year).
Requirements:
- Additional seasoned experience in manufacturing engineering that would be equivalent to what is learned in a degreed program would be reviewed for an acceptable alternative to the B. S. Degree requirement.
- A minimum of 5 years Manufacturing Engineering with milled parts experience with increasing responsibility.
- A minimum equivalent of 5 years hands on machining experience.
- CAD/CAM CNC milled parts programming experience (Siemens NX preferred). Fluent in G&M Code programming.
- Strong cutting tool and work holding knowledge, selection, and design. Quick change and automation tooling/work holding experience a plus.
- Strong manufacturing process knowledge to create efficient CNC programs for complex milled parts.
- A progressive thinker and self-starter to help advance our current methodologies and technologies as we drive to automated manufacturing cells.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills to work effectively with a variety of people.
- The ability to provide guidance and direction to other manufacturing engineers.
- Experience developing automated and advanced manufacturing systems.
- A Lean Mindset” and leadership skills to drive change towards a Lean factory” and Standardized Work”. (Lean belt certification a plus)
- The ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience with MS Project is a plus.
- Strong computer skills proficiency. MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Proficiency in blueprint reading and GD&T
- 5-Axis Machining center programming experience required. Client's 5-Axis Global Machining Platform consists of Okuma MU-4000V, MU-5000V, MU-8000V and Mazak I-600 machines. Experience with these machines is a plus.
- Experience in machining a wide variety of Aerospace materials (Aluminium, Titanium, Stainless Steels, etc) on complex milled parts.
Education:
- Bachelor of Science Degree (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial Eng or Tech).