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Description

The Production Engineer/Technologist will be responsible for overseeing and carrying out planning, implementation of process improvements, and lean project initiatives that will increase production efficiencies. Please note there are two vacancies available for this position.

Responsibilities:
-Design and implement the manufacturing process for new products
-Collaborate with tooling and design engineers to minimize complexity and ensure alignment of design requirements with manufacturing and machine capabilities
-Manage projects aimed at improving process flow while optimizing space, quality, safety, and ergonomics
-Develop, maintain, and support a Continuous Improvement culture using lean tools focusing on the elimination of waste while striving to provide increased value to our customers, both internal and external
-Support production on a day to day basis to prevent production delays, with a focus on technical and process issues within production
-Gauge performance of value streams, identify bottlenecks and suggest/implement changes as required
-Design processes or tooling to improve safety, quality, productivity or cost issues for the value streams
-Research industry best practices and make recommendations to leadership group
-Provide technical leadership/assistance, guidance and mentoring as needed to other Engineers regarding best practices and lean principles
-Create and maintain value stream and cell layouts to aid in standardization of the process, production set-up and product change-over

Qualifications:
-Engineering degree or technologist diploma with a mechanical or industrial focus
-In-depth understanding of lean methodology and continuous improvements methods
-Strong organizational and project management skills
-Strong trouble-shooting and problem solving skills
-High degree of analytical thought and creativity
-3D CAD experience (SolidWorks is preferred)
-Experience with ERP software