Manufacturing Engineer

Combined Metals is a premier North American processor and distributor of specialty strip and wire built through 50 years of growth and acquisition. Combined Metals is the largest independent processor and distributor of specialty strip and wire in North America. With nine service centers, Combined Metals supports over 3,000 customers in the Aerospace, Defense, Nuclear, Medical, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, Electrification, Automotive, and Consumer industries. Decades of quality and reliability have made Combined Metals™ a chosen source in performance applications.

Responsibilities :

• Troubleshoot and make corrections to machinery or operation settings to correct for material defects being introduced.
• Work with Maintenance to improve equipment or introduce equipment to improve a process or improve material quality.
• Work with Process Engineers to drive process improvement through lowering costs, processing time, improving communication, product movement, available tools, etc.
• Investigate problems in production and identify Root Causes and implement Corrective Actions.
• Investigate systemic problems in production and be able to propose creative solutions to fix root causes of problems.
• Collect, analyze, summarize, and present production and process data to management.
• Use software tools to identify trends in data.
• Work with Maintenance to implement PM's.
• Create or modify work instructions in MS Word / Excel.
• Implement Lean / 6-Sigma improvements in production.
• Collect, analyze, summarize, and present production and process data, information, and trends to
• Generate reports, manual and automated, that effectively communicate the state of production via the department's KPI's.
• Collaborate with Maintenance and Production regarding tooling life and design.
• Recommend changes that lead to improvements in product quality, process effectiveness and / or lower cost of manufacture.

Qualifications :

Equal Opportunity Employer

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