Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer

The Heavy Industrial Systems team is seeking to add an experienced Manufacturing Process Engineer to the team. This position will play a crucial role in improving process efficiencies and robustness, addressing assembly ergonomic concerns, and designing work holding and test fixtures.  You will be the technical expert and change agent, supporting an electro-mechanical assembly team of associate owners. 

Position Overview

Process Flow - Utilize advanced Lean/6-sigma practices to set the future state vision and persistently drive to eliminate waste.  Lead teams to identify, prioritize, and execute projects to enhance product flow through the value stream.

Safety – Engineer solutions to resolve safety & ergonomic risks.  Owns the development of safety procedures and ensures integration into production processes.  Participates on all injury investigations and drive Safety Track cause/risks to closure aggressively.

Technical Support – Lead and/or mentor technical staff to provide daily support to production teams for technical issues that arise. Manage capital expenditures and equipment to support production of current and future products. 

Quality – Ensure production area processes operate within quality metrics. Identify trends in quality performance and execute root cause analysis and corrective action plans. Answer customer corrective action requests for field product quality issues.

Process Design – Design tooling, fixtures and workstations essential for new product introduction to the production cells. Provide “Design For Manufacturing and Assembly” input to design engineers for current and future products. Participate in cross-team “Failure Mode Effect Analysis” to proactively mitigate failure modes in both process and design.

New Equipment – Manage investigation, capital justification and purchase of new equipment and tooling. Participate in the definition of the equipment/process technology roadmap for the annual operating plan.

Who you are and the experience you bring: 

• BS in engineering
• 3+ years of experience in an engineering production support role.
• Root cause problem solving skills, methodology, and ability to innovate corrective actions/solutions
• Lean/Six-Sigma certifications, knowledge, application, leadership
• Strong Project Management skills
• CAPEX justification & management
• Demonstrated ability to formulate execution plans for strategic activities
• Ability to mentor and train Technicians

Besides our incredible culture, some of the benefits you can expect with a career at Hypertherm: 

·       Global, 100% employee-owned company for over 50 years 

·       Profit-Sharing 

·       Employee Stock Ownership 

·       Five days/year Community Service Time 

·       Strong commitment to Environmental Stewardship 

·       Stable, growing organization with a no-layoff philosophy 

At Hypertherm Associates, we are committed to building an inclusive diverse, flexible, and collaborative environment. If our mission resonates with you, but you don’t meet all posted requirements, we encourage you to still apply.  We will evaluate your application materials and may suggest alternative roles that better leverage your strengths and talents.  For positions with multiple levels, we will evaluate your prior experience to determine the level within our organization you are best aligned based upon the job applying.

CURRENT ASSOCIATES OR TEMPORARY ASSOCIATES: Please apply via your internal Workday career account.

This is the base pay range that an applicant can expect to make upon hire.

Pay within this range will vary based upon relevant experience, skills, and education among other factors.