Position Salary: $95,000 - $125,000 (Depending on Experience) + Bonus
Responsibilities:
Accountable and responsible for technical ownership of the production process.
Responsible for the complete process control, technical oversight of a continuous production process, to ensure maximum up-time, with highest efficiency, excellent quality to provide mentorship and technical guidance to other process engineers.
Lead multiple departmental efforts with new product development and production integration.
Hands-on process engineering role, and will require ingenuity, flexibility and problem-solving capabilities using RCCA Lean Six Sigma or any other technical tools or data to solve the problem.
Maintain, improve and contribute to the consistency of the production processes, recommend and execute upgrades to process control, and take leadership in production/equipment upgrades.
Experienced in the methodology and techniques to produce continuous reinforced composite materials. Please note roles and responsibilities are subject to change with or without advanced notice.
Responsible for executing all process engineering activities across a broad range of processes, ranging from manufacturing, process control/optimization, scrap reduction, and to support and lead engineering trials
Recognizes, implements, and troubleshoots tools by providing root cause and corrective actions (RCCA) to problems associated with impregnation or batch mixing manufacturing processes.
Lead and support in establishing and measuring process performance standards associated with quality, waste/throughput.
Contributes and executes operational reviews and other efforts leading to safety, process improvements and cost reduction activities.
Supports and provides feedback in investigations and execute RCCA in operational non-conformances and customer related issues.
Support plans and executes capital projects and process improvement activities.
Supports and participates in customer site audits/qualifications and visits
Support targeted projects which include defining and documenting product and processing parameters, capability, cost reductions and manufacturing.
Evaluates, troubleshoots, and solve quality processes, safety and process led improvements
Documenting and creating manufacturing processes and methods per AS9100 (or equivalent) quality system
Creates and provides training for manufacturing Configurations, Bills of Materials, Routers, Work Instructions, SPC/SQC, and Control Plans using manufacturing engineering best practices.
Works with and leads all related functions including Manufacturing, Maintenance, Process Technology, R&D, Quality Assurance and Receiving/Shipping to achieve the company's objectives
Must be able to support multiple projects.
Assists in responsibility for the safety and environmental issues associated with the manufacturing processes and equipment.
Supports process engineering and operation department leads/managers in his/her functional activities, and performs other duties as assigned
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in material science, engineering, chemical, mechanical or related field: Higher education is a plus
5+ years of experience working in composite materials, aerospace manufacturing industry
Prepregging or resin mixing manufacturing processes is highly preferred
Mentorship, training or supervision experience preferred.
In depth understand of statistical analysis, process control, project management, RCCA and FMEA
Lean and Green Belt or Black Belt Six Sigma training, certification is a plus!
Root Cause, PFMEA, Statistics & SQC/SPC
Has in depth understanding of business ERP system (Microsoft Dynamic or similar)
Must be able to communicate clearly (written and verbally) in English
Able to work and communicate with interdisciplinary teams and the leadership team.
Maintain work areas in a neat, orderly and safe manner
Follow safety procedures for PPE (personal protection equipment)
Previous experience with composite part manufacturing and/or composite impregnation processes. Specifically in thermoset/thermoplastic resin systems with carbon and/or glass tape/fabrics.