Associate Manufacturing Engineer

About the Role

We are hiring an Associate Manufacturing Engineer to lead and provide ongoing support through our manufacturing life cycle.

What You Will Be Doing

• With limited direction, lead the introduction of new products into the facility.
• Improve productivity and profitability of existing production procedures.
• Provide ongoing support through the manufacturing life cycle.
• Act as a technical expert in process technology improvements.
• Independently evaluate manufacturing processes to ensure optimal labor and material costs to increase productivity and profitability.
• Identify prime areas for improvement through justifications and evaluations.
• Track expenditures to ensure outlays are within budgeted amounts.
• Identify, reduce, and eliminate worker exposure(s) to ergonomic stress(es) in the workplace.
• Provide timely product and process support for any manufacturing area to diagnose problems, identify and implement solutions to minimize interruptions to production.
• Lead the implementation of significant product, process, cost reduction, or other corporate change initiatives being introduced into the plant.
• Provide advanced research to introduce/integrate new processes, equipment, and technologies into the company.

Your Future Team

• You will be part of a large and collaborative operations network at Steelcase.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 4-year technical degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Industrial, Mechatronic, Electrical, or similar engineering fields.
• Experience in root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Familiarity with ERP (SAP and Windchill).
• Experience in Statistical Risk Analysis.
• Must be willing to be hands-on with production floor support.
• Must be willing to work flexible hours.
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Preferred Skills & Competencies

• 2+ years of hands-on manufacturing experience.
• Very strong analysis skills: process, capacity, cost/benefit, waste stream, and quality tools.
• Internal and external quality support/management.
• Knowledge in lean manufacturing techniques: flow, PQ, equipment reliability, and set up reduction.
• Knowledge of material handling.
• Productivity improvement techniques: CRI’s.
• Economics and financial analysis.
• Ability to document process, functional specifications, etc.
• Wood working experience.
• Desirable experience in working or applying automation, visual systems, IIOT, etc.
• Experience in design, specification, purchase, and installation of new equipment.
• Knowledge of simulation, process modeling, and value stream mapping.
• Occupational Bio Mechanics/Human Factors Engineering.
• Desirable experience in applying solving methods techniques (Lean Essential, 8 step, TQM etc.).