Manufacturing Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and control project costs throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring projects stay within budget and meet deadlines.
• Develop detailed cost estimates for projects, including labor, materials, equipment, and other resources.
• Work closely with project managers, engineers, and other team members to ensure cost control and efficient resource allocation.
• Analyze and select appropriate packaging that protects the product, meets marketing goals, and aligns with sustainability objectives.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure packaging aligns with product development, manufacturing, marketing, and supply chain goals.
• Provide packaging information of current or future products into customer web portals.
• Apply engineering principles and analytical techniques to establish and continuously improve manufacturing processes and products.
• Assist the Process Line Manager in the development of capital and expense budgets.
• Evaluate new products and make recommendations related to manufacturing feasibility.
• Follow up on Customer Specific Requirements (CSR) as applicable.
• Estimate production rates, setup and tooling cost for inquiry and new part setup.
• Ensure customer requirements are met.
• Handle/store hazardous waste in a compliant manner with all federal, state, and local regulations.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience working in a high-speed manufacturing environment is highly preferred.
• Specific expertise may be required for roles related to CQI-12 Coating, CQI-15 Welding, or CQI-30 Mix and Molding, potentially involving minimum years of experience in surface finishing, welding operations, or rubber mixing and molding processes respectively, or a combination of education and experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in a related engineering field; or 5 or more years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience and education must be related to manufacturing, industrial, electrical, mechanical, or similarly related field.