In the performance of their respective tasks and duties, all employees are expected to meet the following:

• Perform quality work within deadlines without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers.
• Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments.
• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations.
• Deliver excellent customer service to both internal and external customers.
• Demonstrate the Core Values: Expertise, Service, and Passion.

Strategic Importance of this Role

The Manufacturing Engineer works with customer experience, quality and operations teams to provide the required designs and documentation for production. Applies engineering design knowledge to create the necessary drawings, works with the quality department to develop control plans and works with the operations team to create set-up and work instructions. Utilizes problem solving methodology to identify root causes of product application/quality problems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities and Leadership Competencies

_ New Product Development_

• Creates engineering designs utilizing established standards and makes modifications when necessary to meet customer application requirements.
• Prepares proposal drawings, customer drawings and production drawings per company engineering standards using Solid Works.
• New part onboarding.
• Setup and updates BOMs, routers, part revision changes, and cycle times.

Production Support

• Creates and maintains operation Playbooks.
• Flow path optimization.
• Assists Quality in the creation of operator control plans.
• Assists Production in the creation of set-up and operation work instructions.
• Supports customer validation activities.

Participates in root cause analysis and corrective/preventative action measures related to product application and production problems.

Product Support

• __Assists in developing engineering application knowledge database supporting historical and the latest product technology.

__ _ Travel_

• Must be willing to travel to customer and supplier locations, up to 10% of the time.

Maintains Professional & Technical Knowledge

• Attends educational workshops and networking opportunities.
• Reviews professional publications

Accountability

• Strong conflict resolution skills and leadership experience.

• Takes ownership and responsibility for assigned tasks, ensuring timely and accurate completion.

• Demonstrates a proactive approach in problem-solving and decision-making being accountable for the outcomes.

• Adheres to scheduled working hours, arriving promptly and being present for the entire duration of the shift.

• Maintains regular and consistent attendance, minimizing unplanned absences or tardiness.

• Notifies the supervisor or appropriate personnel in advance of any planned absences or request for time off.

• Maintains a high level of transparency and integrity in all work-related activities.

• Builds a reputation for dependability and trustworthiness through consistent performance and reliability.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to accomplish each essential job function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Other Competencies and Native Genius

Work Environment/Safety: Promotes mutual respect, keeps workplace clean and safe, and supports safety programs.

Dependability: Meets commitments while working independently. Accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, and meets attendance/punctuality requirements.

Productivity: Manages a fair workload, volunteers for additional work, and prioritizes tasks. Develops good work procedures, manages time well, and handles information flow.

Quality: Attentive to detail and accuracy and committed to excellence. Continuously looks for improvements, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, and owns/acts on quality problems.

Qualifications

_ Education, Licenses/Certifications and Work Experience_

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline from a college, university or technical school; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Familiarity with pressure situations and how to handle them in a professional business manner also required.

The successful candidate must be able to read and comprehend GD&T specifications. Experience with CAD software, especially Solid Works, is strongly preferred.

Other Skills:

• Critical Thinking: Able to display high level reasoning skills to solve multiple, complex situations.
• Job Knowledge: Understands duties and responsibilities, has necessary job knowledge, has necessary technical skills, understands company mission/values, keeps job knowledge current, is in command of critical issues.
• Quantitative Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistics. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, graphs, and proportions to practical situations.
• Technical Skills: Understands specialty equipment, keeps knowledge up-to-date, is a technical resource for others, follows technology practices and standards
• Decision Making/Judgment: Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus when possible, and communicates decisions to others.
• Attention to Detail: Achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task.

Cultural Fit – Company’s Core Value and Behaviors

Personal success is not solely determined by external factors, but rather, it is greatly influenced by your own actions, mindset, and choices. To positively impact your own success, it is essential to take ownership of your goals, aspirations, and development.

At Superior Tube Products, we believe in the power of living our core values. By embracing our core values, we unleash our collective potential, drive innovation, and create a positive impact on our customers, coworkers, and the world around us. Together, we will strive for excellence, embrace diversity and inclusivity, promote integrity and transparency, foster collaboration and teamwork, and continuously learn and grow. By living our core values, we not only inspire each other, but we also inspire those we serve. Together, we can make a meaningful difference and achieve extraordinary success.

In every project and interaction, I will choose to make a conscious effort to embody these values and lead by example. These values and behaviors are not just ideals to aspire to, but fundamental drivers of success and excellence. I am committed to embracing the core values and THRIVE.