Location: Smithville, TN, United States
Company: Tenneco’s
Job Position: Manufacturing Engineer
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Qualification:
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in
Engineering or related field.
Experience:
- 3 years’ experience in CNC machining, tooling, automation, robotics or metal cutting industry.
- Must possess excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, word, etc.
- Solid works, or other 3d design software experience.
Job Responsibility:
Identify and develop methods to improve the manufacturing processes to achieve increased productivity, minimal tool cost, increased flexibility and reduction in setup time and product scrap.
- Participate and or lead APQP activities including the creation, updating and maintaining of PFMEA's.
- Identify, evaluate and recommend the capital equipment, tooling and fixtures required to improve the manufacturing process and write the necessary justification for approval of funds to implement the project.
- Provide technical advice and expertise to solve manufacturing equipment and tooling problems in a timely manner to achieve plant production plans on time and within budget and insure continuity of production.
- Provide costs estimates, design and purchase of equipment to support new product introductions, engineering change notices and cost reduction ideas in an accurate and timely manner.
- Monitor and recommend the purchase of optimum cost perishable tooling to maintain minimum tooling inventory cost.
- Contribute to the division cost reduction program to assist plant management in achieving yearly goals.
- Provide equipment and processes that are designed to maintain a safe and clean work area to improve safety and contribute to good employee morale.
- Support the overall facility through managing and implementing facility related improvement projects.
- Justify capital expenditures for improving projects by identifying major areas of savings and writing the request for necessary funding.
- Provide outside vendors with detailed technical specifications, in writing, to allow competitive purchase of tools and equipment.
- Conduct equipment specification evaluations at the vendor's plant prior to shipment of new equipment to verify that the equipment will conform to specified performance characteristics.
- Provide cost estimates for new product equipment and tooling and, where applicable, provide the design work necessary to incorporate the product into existing equipment.