Summary:

The Manufacturing Engineer, Aerospace Finishing, is a member of the Manufacturing

Engineering Team. The engineer performs a wide range of duties to maintain and improve manufacturing operations processes, documentation, tooling, and equipment to efficiently meet Customer requirements and the company’s KPIs for a variety of military aerospace grade thermal management products. This engineer must provide mature solutions for finishing operations improvements, in-process inspection, equipment and personnel performance measurement, and other related challenges.

Responsibilities:

• No direct reports, but leadership and training for staff within Manufacturing.

• Engineering and Operations will be expected.

• Provide technical assistance to paint shop, Design Engineering, and Material Control to eliminate unnecessary operations or clarify process instructions.

• Ability to interpret and communicate highly technical drawings and translate into easy-to-follow finishing instructions to ensure the necessary control for product lines.

• Provide technical guidance on planning manufacturing work orders.

• Work closely with all levels in an advisory and instructional capacity on the use and setup of various cleaning, masking, tooling, coatings, and test equipment.

• Analyze and develop production processes, time standards, and equipment setups to maximize manufacturing efficiency, utilization and reduce costs.

• Work with tool designer to develop new tooling, repair existing tooling, and investigate the improvement of existing tooling to continuously improve production support area capabilities and output.

• Ability to research and advise production on replacement equipment or upgrade production capabilities with new technology. Recommend new technologies to improve staff performance, and product quality and reliability.

• Collaborate with vendors to produce and present solutions to management.

• Design of lean manufacturing layouts and workspaces to maximize production efficiency.

• Participate and assist with manufacturing readiness on advanced projects related to new product releases by providing processes, equipment, and tooling recommendations to support the manufacturing of prototypes and first-time builds.

• Collect, analyze, and present data for the purchase of capital equipment, tooling improvements, and provide department continuous improvement recommendations to audiences at various levels of the company.

• Provide technical support and recommendations to both internal and external customer technical/quality teams regarding process improvements, non-conforming parts, defects, and repair/rework.

   

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.

• 1-2 years of experience in metal finishing (desired).

• National Association for Surface Finishing Certification or similar (desired).

• General knowledge of mechanical assembly, machine shop operations and practices, tooling, and fixture design.

• Good organizational skills, communication skills, work ethic, ability to multitask and work on a team.

• Excellent verbal & written communications - Ability to clearly present technical information.

• The ability to work independent of direct daily supervision.

• Computer skills including:.

• Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Project, Power Point, etc.

• Ability to work for prolonged periods on a computer.

• Must be able to support limited travel to support vendor evaluation, new product.

• investigation, customers and testing as required.