Production Engineer

Summary

We are looking for a talented manufacturing engineer to oversee and improve manufacturing processes at Williams, White & Company. The manufacturing engineer’s responsibilities include identifying areas for improvement, driving continuous improvement initiatives, maintaining high levels of manufacturing and product quality, as well as ensuring cost-efficiency and conformance with regulatory standards. To be successful as a manufacturing engineer you should be able to work effectively within a team and have a high level of technical expertise. An outstanding manufacturing engineer should be able to develop and optimize manufacturing processes for maximum efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and quality.

Essential Functions

1. Assists or provides recommendations to plan, estimate, or schedule production work.
2. Ensures adherence to safety rules and practices.
3. Monitors manufacturing processes to identify ways to reduce losses, decrease time requirements, or improve quality. 
4. Review and calculate labor, material and other production costs along with reviewing schedules and future production requirements to assist management in decision making.
5. Recommends corrective or preventive actions to assure or improve product quality or reliability.
6. Identifies opportunities for improvements in quality, cost, or efficiency of automation equipment. 
7. Monitors existing processes to assure they continue performing at optimal levels of efficiency. 
8. Evaluates manufacturing equipment, materials, or components.
9. Identifies and/or implements new or sustainable manufacturing technologies, processes, or equipment. 
10. Assists in developing manufacturing infrastructure to integrate or deploy new manufacturing processes.
11. Assists in developing production, inventory, and/or quality assurance programs.
12. Manages or assists with work assignments that may include cross-functional or project team responsibilities (e.g. continuous improvement).
13. Supports equipment maintenance and repair services and make sure that manufacturer’s procedures and instructions are followed in order to keep production equipment operational.
14. Performs other duties required by the Company.  
15. Effectively interacts with managers, supervisors, and hourly team members across all departments.
16. Travels on an as needed basis. 
17.  Additional duties as assigned.