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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.

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