Manufacturing Engineer

Permanent

Your Role

As a Manufacturing Engineer you will be responsible to drive factory improvements in the technical manufacturing departments through a strong showing of initiative and active participation in the Manufacturing Engineering Team activities as well as clear planning and building of cross functional relationships.

A Typical Day

• Identify initial concepts including design for new processes or tooling relating to equipment including costing and recommend production rates.
• Preparation of equipment specifications and capital expenditure requests for funding when part of project.
• Manage outside contractors on implementation of projects.
• Review methods of manufacturing to ensure that the most economical approach is utilized.
• Participate in the implementation of Plant Automation and Control.
• Review safety of equipment and systems and provide improvements based on risk assessments.
• Liaise with R&D and other departments throughout the various project phases for implementing new products in production.
• Involved with PFMEA process as well as use root cause analysis tools.
• Assist production on equipment or tooling issues and identify areas for improvement.
• Assist maintenance with technical information as required for processes or tooling.
• Display role model behaviours, i.e. integrity, honesty, and keeping to commitments made.
• Contribute to a positive morale of teams and individuals and provide support wherever necessary.
• Promote continuous improvement including housekeeping and the maintenance of the Electrolux Manufacturing System systems using EMS principles. 

Core Competencies

• A degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Mechatronics Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing or similar environment
• Experience in Continuous Improvement and Automation
• Experience with CAD design packages, with Inventor application preferable
• Experience in pneumatics and/or hydraulics
• Experience in assembly fixtures concepts and design
• Project Management experience by using MS project (or equivalent)
• Good use of English language
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Computer literacy in (among others) MS Word, Outlook, Excel and Power Point
• Experience in metal enamel process or metal press is advantageous

Who You Are

• Both reactive and proactive, you work efficiently and flexibly to deliver results.
• With an eye for detail and the ability to interpret complex data, you can translate this into meaningful and useful information that informs decision-making.
• Creative - you’re open minded about where ideas come from and how they can be applied to enable innovation.
• Agile - both reactive and proactive, you work efficiently and flexibly to deliver results.
• Collaborative - you build trust, good working relationships and communicate effectively with your colleagues and across functions.
• Focused - you appreciate and understand process and the project goals.
• Results-driven - you aim to fix any issue the first time, following up as needed to reach a resolution that satisfies the customer.
• A strategic-thinker - You can join the dots to take us from where we are to where we want to be, mapping the clear routes and strategies essential to achieving our goals.

Keeping you Healthy and Safe

We want you to return home in even better shape than when you started, so we need you to help us do this by making sure you follow a few simple steps. We need you to:

• Make sure you take reasonable care for your own health and safety, and
• Take reasonable care that what you do (or what you don’t do when you should have) doesn’t affect the health and safety of others, and
• Follow reasonable instructions that we might give from time-to-time, such as reporting incidents and hazards, and
• Follow policies or procedures, so long as it’s reasonable and we’ve told you about it, and
• Attend training that helps you to work safely