Hands-on engineer to lead the capital projects in a cross-functional team environment to improve manufacturing processes, reduce costs and improve product quality on fans, wheels, or blower packages.
**Responsibilities**:
- Investigate, analyze and prepare justifications for the purchase of manufacturing equipment. Obtain quotations from vendors; submit capital appropriation requests for the purchase of specific equipment.
- Responsible for the day-to-day management of capital equipment projects.
- Provide regular updates on project status and develop mitigation plans as necessary.
- Analyze workflow, work methods, plant and department layouts for improved product flow in production.
- Develop CAD layouts for projects.
- Identify tools, jigs and fixtures, or other new or special equipment required for new production or improvements to existing production lines.
- Partner with the Maintenance and Production teams on the installation and debugging of equipment.
- Perform other manufacturing engineering tasks as assigned.
**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor Degree in Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering. Sheet metal fabrication and plant automation experience preferred; must have a good mechanical aptitude of general machinery.
- At least 7 years' experience in a manufacturing environment with 3-5 years in capital projects
- Excellent communication, project management and organizational skills
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills and the ability to exercise influence without authority
- Superior analytical and problem solving skills in a manufacturing environment
- Familiarity with DraftSight and SolidWorks or similar CAD software
- Proficient in MS Office and MS Project
- Experience with IFS or similar ERP software
- Lean & Six Sigma experience desirable
Pay: $40,000.00 - $45,000.00 per month
**Experience**:
- Manufacturing: 5 years (required)
- Capital Projects: 3 years (required)
Work Location: In person