Manufacturing Engineer

Manufacturing Engineer

Prototek is a leading national provider of digital based manufacturing services including CNC machining, precision sheet metal fabrication, EDM, and additive manufacturing services. Prototek serves a variety of customer end markets, including aerospace, defense, medical, robotics, electronics, consumer, and general industrial. Prototek has manufacturing locations across the United States including facilities in New Hampshire, Wisconsin, California, and Pennsylvania. Prototek is ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D:2016 certified as well as ITAR Registered.

Job Summary

The Manufacturing Engineer position is responsible for improving operations, quality assurance, and processes in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, and ensuring that the production of customer product is done with highly efficient and productive methodologies. The position will also develop, support, and optimize manufacturing operations for CNC, Sheetmetal, and Additive technologies.

Essential Functions

Lead projects that analyze, review, and improve processes, including those in CNC machining, additive manufacturing, metal fabrication, post-processing, finishing, and quality control.

Continual improvement of day-to-day manufacturing operations to reduce costs and waste to improve quality and profits utilizing Lean Manufacturing principles.

Troubleshoot manufacturing processes including internal review, CAPA, audits, or complaints.

Utilize technical expertise on manufacturing best practices and implement new and innovative methods to improve manufacturing operations.

Develop and maintain documented procedures necessary to ensure consistent output of high-quality products including corrective and preventative maintenance plans.

Analyze production workflow to improve utilization, optimize efficiencies, and reduce bottlenecks.

Review product drawings, CAD data, and other specifications to confirm that all customer requirements can and have been met.

Provide feedback to customers on their product drawings in regard to design for manufacturability (DFM).

Review measuring and qualification activities to ensure proper results are determined, recorded, and reported and that issues with nonconforming products are communicated to the appropriate person.

Maximize operational efficiencies by estimating costs and production times for small and larger scale manufacturing opportunities.

Investigate new manufacturing machinery, material testing equipment, and metrology systems and report to management for acquisition.

Implement processes to properly operate, maintain, and report data (FAI, FAIR, PPAP) collected.

Prototek is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.