*Join a Global Leader as a Process / Manufacturing Engineer*
Key Assets Recruitment is partnering with a stable, growing client with a global footprint to find an experienced Process / Manufacturing Engineer. This is a full-time, direct-hire role with our client, representing an exciting opportunity driven by company growth.
Are you looking for a new professional challenge where your expertise in process optimization will have a direct and measurable impact? If you thrive on continuous improvement and are ready to elevate manufacturing performance, this is the role for you!
The position will be in the Huntington, WV area, and relocation assistance is available. Experience will determine the level of Engineer (Sr, Mid or Jr).
What You'll Be Doing: The Core Mission
As the Manufacturing Engineer for your assigned processes, you'll be the driving force behind efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness. This is a hands-on role where you'll champion Lean Manufacturing methodology and Kaizen activities to deliver best-in-class results.
Key Responsibilities and Impact:
- Process Optimization: Emphasize continuous improvement through waste reduction, lead time reduction, and setup reduction (SMED) to enhance productivity and achieve product target costs.
- Operational Ownership: Review and refine process controls, develop cell layouts, and identify potential production problems for existing products.
- Capital & Launch Strategy: Be deeply involved in project management, determining capital needs, defining launch strategies, establishing process flows, and setting labor/machine standards.
- Quality & Collaboration: Partner with Quality Control and production teams to ensure processes and equipment consistently meet or exceed engineering and quality standards.
- Problem Solving: Lead the effort to eliminate reoccurring downtime through engineering changes and improvements, and collaborate with maintenance personnel on complex technical resolutions.
- System Ownership: Authorize key documents like engineering change notices, process alerts, and purchase orders, ensuring compliance with APQP, PPAP, and ISO/TS16949 requirements.
Job Functions: Daily Execution
You'll be on the front lines, supporting and driving improvement across the facility:
- Daily interaction with employees and maintenance to understand plant focus and barriers to performance.
- Develop workflow, effective layout, and optimize processes.
- Evaluate and implement process/product improvements.
- Work with the team to develop tooling and Poka-Yoke methods.
- Monitor new processes, equipment, and tools to ensure performance specifications are met before full production release.
- Project Management and implementation of capital and non-capital projects, including financial accountability, time-line performance, and tracking.
- Assist with training technical and production staff in processing standards.
- Develop short- and long-term strategy to support customer requirements.
- Support all plant safety rules, procedures, and standards.
Qualifications: What You Bring
- Required: Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field (Mechanical Engineering preferred).
- Required: Proven Manufacturing industry experience in a Process / Manufacturing Engineering role
Skills That Will Make You Stand Out (A Plus!):
- Product launch exposure.
- 3D CAD design experience.
- Experience with PLC (programming or trouble-shooting).
- Familiarity with Robotics / Automation.
- Automotive experience a big plus
Are you ready to use your technical expertise to shape the future of a successful global manufacturing operation? Apply today!
