Role Purpose and Impact: Technical position supporting numerical controlled manufacturing equipment and sub assembly operations by solving equipment issues, improving quality, and supporting sustaining daily needs within the fabrication department. Individual is also used to communicate information between shifts for direct employees, maintenance staff, and supervisors

Specific Responsibilities:

• Oversees fabrication manufacturing processes such as laser cutting, sheet metal and tube bending, and metal punching
• Establishes written standard operating procedures and equipment logs for various machines and processes. Works with engineering on functionality issues and procedure updates.
• Lead and /or participate in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) projects including safety, quality, efficiency, and cost improvement initiatives.
• Assists in the planning, execution and interpretation of designed experiments to identify and characterize critical process factors.
• Develop and administer key performance indicators such as scrap rate, uptime, and efficiency for various work centers.
• Troubleshoot and establish corrective actions for equipment and processing issues. Share root cause and lessons learned with manufacturing team.
• Provides technical assistance and guidance to other departmental personnel.
• Assist production in guiding and training operators and assuring completion of daily schedules
• Perform time studies and maintain labor routings for fabrication equipment and processes.
• Perform limited equipment maintenance such as laser head cleaning, calibration, and other identified maintenance needs
• Assists in execution of engineering change orders and phase in’/out of parts per distribution requirements.
• Coordinates prototype parts per work requests
• Assist in quality inspections of prototype and in process production parts
• Assists with the installation, debugging, and validation of new equipment
• Contributes to team accountabilities by accomplishing other manufacturing tasks as required.
• Understand and follow all company policies and safety regulations

Education Required/Preferred:

• College degree (2yr-4yr)
• Post high-school trade education
• Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
• Fabrication software background (AutoCad, Automation, laser nesting software, etc)

Experience Required:

• Minimum 2 years experience with automated manufacturing equipment
• Minimum 2 years working on shop floor in a production environment