Production Engineer In Training
CurrentAs a Production Engineer in Training , I am in charge of developing, carrying out process improvements, and leading lean project efforts that will boost 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• Create and maintain value stream and cell layouts to aid in standardization of the process, production set-up and product change-over• 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• Guide and perform analysis for capacity planning, cost reduction, and process control• 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