Manufacturing Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Humphrey Products is a Kalamazoo based manufacturer of pneumatic components and systems used in industry, medical, transportation and other applications. This position requires a BSME, BSEE or related BS with at least three years of experience in manufacturing engineering supporting, developing, and launching assembly and test processes.

Manufacturing Engineer responsibilities:

· Develop processes, tooling, fixtures, and methods to produce new or improve existing products.

o Involve CI Manufacturing Engineers, Operations, Maintenance, Product Engineers, and other areas as appropriate.

· Provide cost estimates for engineering time, capital, tooling, and fixtures required for new processes.

· Assure equipment designs are safe and provide ergonomic operation for manufacturing operators.

· Meet cost, capital, and product performance goals with the process.

· Assure minimum effective module sizes to allow volume linearity of capital where possible.

· Develop Assembly and test line concepts that allow:

o Flexible running of multiple product families with exchangeable or common tooling.

o Labor linearity across multiple staffing levels.

o Operation balancing across stations that provide efficient capital utilization and high line output.

o 5 Sigma Process capability Cpk of 1.67 for KPC’s and Cpk of 1.33 for other dimensions.

· PFMEA’s when required used up front to assure processes with low RPN’s.

o Focus on design solutions, then tooling solutions and last, quality checks to address risk areas.

o Error proofing applied at operation and in layered approach with other processes where feasible.

o Items that must be operator checked should use layered checking if possible.

· PCP process control plans developed for KPC’s, KCC’s etc. with SPC as appropriate.

· Problem response charts for key product and process failure modes developed.

· Processes designed for maintainability, planned and preventative maintenance.

o PM plans loaded in the system with input from maintenance and others as appropriate.

· Project management elements:

o Provide timing Gant charts, cost and resource estimates for tooling and fixtures.

o Assure hours are logged to appropriate projects and money spent to appropriate sub-projects.

· Process Workbooks and associated operator standard work documents developed and released for key review meetings held for process concept/design and safety as appropriate.

· ECO process packages raised, actions assigned, with follow up provided to assure close out.

Humphrey Products Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer

An ISO 9001:2015 Registered Company