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SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Company: Donatech
Location: East Aurora
Posted on: October 30, 2024

Job Description:

Position would require the candidate to be a W2 employee of Donatech.
US Citizenship/Permanent Resident Required.

The primary responsibility will be supporting the development of new product/development manufacturing processes, as well as applying continuous improvement manufacturing technologies to existing or mature production programs. In this role, you'll take ownership and drive results performing challenging and non-routine manufacturing engineering applying standard engineering techniques, procedures, and out of the box thinking. In addition to accountability for the manufacturing processes in East Aurora, NY you will also help support our other aircraft facilities worldwide as required.

Here is what you can expect....
Evaluate and develop new and emerging technologies in manufacturing engineering and production process development.
Play a major role in coordinating Design for Manufacturing efforts amongst various development engineering groups for new and existing programs.
Determine manufacturing procedures, operation sequencing, prepare tooling and gauge lists, create, and prove out N/C programs, writing of detailed operations sheets and work instructions to produce complex milled machined parts and sub-assemblies.
Hands on approach in supporting continuous improvement efforts for existing production processes.
Prepare, monitor, and update engineered or estimated time standards for set up and run hours, man to machine ratios and economic run quantities for each component's processes throughout the entire parts routing.
Provide detailed cost estimates for new business capture and process improvement efforts.
Leadership in new manufacturing capital equipment evaluation, justification, purchasing and implementation.
Daily interaction with a variety of disciplines, including other client engineers, technicians, operations, and quality personnel, as well as external suppliers, to solve process related problems and mentor others.
Work days are split between hands on shop interaction and office assignments. Many times, the Manufacturing engineers performs their own machine program proveouts side by side with shop personnel.
Project leadership opportunities assigned by the Group Lead and/or Manufacturing Engineering Manager.
Support of production automated manufacturing cells, driving process stability to achieve reduced attended labor and human factor variation. Assignment/Ownership of a dedicated manufacturing cell is likely.
Some international and/or domestic travel as required (5% or approx. two weeks/year).

What we are looking for...
Bachelor of Science Degree (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial Eng or Tech).
Additional seasoned experience in manufacturing engineering that would be equivalent to what is learned in a degreed program would be reviewed for an acceptable alternative to the B. S. Degree requirement.
A minimum of 5 years Manufacturing Engineering with milled parts experience with increasing responsibility.
A minimum equivalent of 5 years hands on machining experience.
CAD/CAM CNC milled parts programming experience (Siemens NX preferred). Fluent in G&M Code programming.
Strong cutting tool and workholding knowledge, selection, and design. Quick change and automation tooling/workholding experience a plus.
Strong manufacturing process knowledge to create efficient CNC programs for complex milled parts.
A progressive thinker and self-starter to help advance our current methodologies and technologies as we drive to automated manufacturing cells.
Excellent communication and documentation skills to work effectively with a variety of people.
The ability to provide guidance and direction to other manufacturing engineers.
Experience developing automated and advanced manufacturing systems.
A Lean Mindset and leadership skills to drive change towards a Lean factory and Standardized Work. (Lean belt certification a plus)
The ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously. Experience with MS Project is a plus.
Strong computer skills proficiency. MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
Proficiency in blueprint reading and GD&T
5-Axis Machining center programming experience required. Client's 5-Axis Global Machining Platform consists of Okuma MU-4000V, MU-5000V, MU-8000V and Mazak I-600 machines. Experience with these machines is a plus.
Experience in machining a wide variety of Aerospace materials (Aluminum, Titanium, Stainless Steels, etc) on complex milled parts.

Keywords: Donatech, Niagara Falls , SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER, Engineering , East Aurora, New York

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