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Senior Manufacturing Engineer

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Bellwood, IL
Senior level
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Bellwood, IL
Senior level
The Sr Mfg Engineer leads manufacturing engineers, coordinates resources for projects, maintains prototypes, manages technology applications, prevents problems, and fosters customer relations and business planning.
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Provides technical expertise, leadership and direction to the manufacturing engineers within the team environment. Coordinate the manufacturing engineering resources to support both operations and Customer Product Teams relative to complex projects on new product launches and existing product line changes. Assure Bellwood is at the fore front of state-of-the-art world class manufacturing technology, in order to attain continuous improvement and be a technology leader.

Product Management: Is responsible for maintaining the prototype lab area, supporting design & production intent production, maintaining a cost reduction program through specification change, manufactureability & process improvements to achieve annual BBOS goals, and assures that only proven or shelved technology is used in new design. Project Management: Providing timely updates to management through maintaining up-to-date project timing status, Is responsible for keeping management aware of program plan, for programs completed on time, for meeting cost targets on programs, and for the team supporting the AQP process, develops project plan & capital A/R consistent with value creation, quality and delivery expectations, effectively identify, communicate & resolve potential issues, is responsible for error free launches of new processes and products, monitoring external & internal supplier progress assuring that appropriate milestone reviews & approvals are completed, managing tooling releases, assuring production operator, set-up & maintenance personnel training is completed for all new projects, establish process capability & process acceptance both internally & with the customer, providing systems for insuring long term capability, establishing implementation cost & timing, estimating operational costs & quality expectations, documenting information in suitable formats, obtaining quotes, and conducting supplier selection & place purchase orders assuring appropriate BWA equipment standards, Safety and Acceptance requirements are documented and understood by the supplier. Mentoring: Assuring that engineers on  are continually updated in the state-of-the-art of process technology, and that team members are continually developed by appropriate training to meet current and anticipated needs, acting as a coach and sounding board for team members on issues requiring further history, knowledge, and experience, Conducting appraisals of team members with input from the team member's peer group and functional manager, promoting and developing career pathing for growth opportunities with team members and functional managers. Technology Management: Assuring shelved technology is ready for production, is responsible for bringing new products and technology to production, identify new technology applications or developments appropriate for strategic review, leading the bench marking of proposed manufacturing processes & system, defining and analyzes test or mock-ups to establish critical factors & minimize implementation risk, utilizing statistical methods & D.O.E. where appropriate & document procedures, results & conclusions, maintaining & communicating manufacturing & product strategies. Problem Prevention: Reviewing engineers projects to assure that pokayoke type devices or in process checks are used to prevent problems from occurring, assuring problems are dealt with in a timely manner, assuring that the problem boundaries are properly established for the team, creating an 8D team when necessary to resolve issues utilizing structured problem solving techniques (TOPS or 5-P process), assuring that permanent and irreversible changes are made to systems to prevent recurrence of problems, assuring that flow chart, control plan, and operator instructions are changed to show the corrective action. Customer Relations: Is responsible for RFQ completion within BBOS time goal, for on-time delivery of prototype parts (using  production intent type processes whenever possible), maintaining effective lines of communication with OEM's Purchasing, Mfg., Quality, and Engineering, supporting customer contact visits both to the customer facility & to Bellwood, assuring a timely response to customer concerns, questions, or problems. Business Planning: Proposing new projects using project tracking system, planning and makes management aware of future resource needs, supporting budget planning by submitting capital and headcount needs for programs, supporting LRP planning by providing detailed technical directional input, capital and headcount needs for current and forecasted programs.  Anticipate key technology directions, supporting business planning by making management aware of new technology, creating business systems and procedures that organize the flow of work to improve efficiencies, providing detailed input on new business opportunities via competitive product reverse engineering & bench marking review,  monitoring & reviewing ongoing project activities for consistency with strategy visions. Team Activities: Is responsible for manufacturing engineering team performance, promoting a cooperative team environment and supports concurrent engineering by active involvement, allocating resources as necessary to accomplish team goals, for team membership, sharing in team administrative activities, and facilitating effective team dynamics. Manufacturing Process Planning: assuring that engineers are up-to-date on the use of Design and Manufacturing Standards, confirming capacity planning for new programs, consulting on product specification development with customer for requirements & manufactureability.  Provide recommendations for improvements, initiating required internal work requests & obtain required approvals for rearrangements, installation & set-up, establishing process FMEA's, gaging, process control & maintenance plans per AQP, and documenting major manufacturing system specifications for process parameters, performance requirements & capacity for all process steps, equipment, tooling & incoming materials.

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