Job Title
Manufacturing Engineer
Job Description
The position of Manufacturing Engineer provides operational support in their magnet manufacturing area relating to the Business Unit Goals and Objectives. This includes driving continuous improvement activities in the areas of Safety, Quality & Compliance, On Time Delivery, and Product Cost.
The sustaining Manufacturing Engineering team, based in Latham, NY, consists of 10 Manufacturing Engineers and 10+ other positions including Tool Designers, Industrial Engineers, IT specialists, etc. The Manufacturing Engineering team contains diverse backgrounds and expertise and is involved in a lot of exciting innovations in manufacturing processes and controls.
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The Manufacturing Engineering team works in close collaboration with Design & Drafting, Design Engineering, Product Industrialization, Purchasing, and Quality team members. The Manufacturing Engineering office is co-located with R&D, so they may work hand in hand with Design to research and implement DFM ideas or improvements to our products that will improve our customer's experience.
In this role, you are responsible for:
- Providing technical support for the manufacturing area in the execution of world class operational performance.
- Ensuring robust production process capability and control, including process specification documentation.
- Leading process tooling development to optimize error proofing and safe and efficient labor application.
- Initiating, facilitating, and sustaining support for continuous improvement activities (Kaizen events) in the assigned area of subject matter expertise.
- Leading and/or supporting Structured Problem Solving to remedy deviations to short interval control (Daily Management) expectations.
- Being responsible for area Technical Product (Standard Work) documents.
- Collaborating with EH&S, Design, Quality and Operations colleagues to ensure effective Design transfer to production.
- Establishing and assuring adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance.
You're the right fit if you have a customer-first attitude and the following:
- Bachelor's Degree in applicable Engineering discipline, and/or demonstrated progressive experience in one or more of the abovementioned specific subject matter applications.
- 5+ years of previous manufacturing engineering experience
- Knowledge of Six Sigma and APQP concept applications.
- Software tools - Microsoft Project, Visio, Excel (Advanced), LabView, Inventor, AutoCAD
- Experience working with cryogenics
- Experience working with ASME Boiler Pressure Vessel Code
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to be an effective communicator
- Possessing a strong working knowledge of manufacturing, including the underlying theories and concepts of manufacturing, quality, and product engineering
- Working knowledge of environmental, health, safety and quality regulations.
- Specific expertise in one or more of the following:
- Manual and semi-automated fabricated & welded assemblies
- Electro-Mechanical assemblies including winding and wiring
- High vacuum and cryogenic processes
- Automation implementation
About Philips
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Additional Information
US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.
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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.
Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran and maintains a drug-free workplace.