Senior Manufacturing Engineer

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Job description

Direct Hire - Full Time position in Elma Center, NY
Pay: $80K - $140K per year based on experience
Position ID: 2601

An excellent position with a leading aerospace and defense company

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Please apply ONLY if you 5+ years in Manufacturing Engineering with milled parts experience

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

We can ONLY consider your application if you have:

1: Bachelor of Science Degree (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial Eng or Tech) ( Very strong experience in manufacturing engineering would be considered as an alternative to the Degree requirement)
2: 5+ years Manufacturing Engineering with milled parts experience with increasing responsibility.
3: 5+ years hands on machining experience.
4: CAD/CAM CNC milled parts programming experience (Siemens NX preferred). Fluent in G&M Code programming.
5: Strong cutting tool and workholding knowledge, selection, and design. Quick change and automation tooling/workholding experience a plus.
6: Strong manufacturing process knowledge to create efficient CNC programs for complex milled parts.
7: 5-Axis Machining center programming experience required ( Okuma MU-4000V, MU-5000V, MU-8000V and Mazak I-600 machines a plus)
8: A progressive thinker and self-starter to help advance our current methodologies and technologies as we drive to automated manufacturing cells.
9: Excellent communication and documentation skills to work effectively with a variety of people.
10: The ability to provide guidance and direction to other manufacturing engineers.
11: Experience developing automated and advanced manufacturing systems.
12: A "Lean Mindset" and leadership skills to drive change towards a "Lean factory" and "Standardized Work". (Lean belt certification a plus)
13: The ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously. Experience with MS Project is a plus.
14: Strong computer skills proficiency. MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
15: Proficiency in blueprint reading and GD&T
16: Experience in machining a wide variety of Aerospace materials (Aluminum, Titanium, Stainless Steels, etc) on complex milled parts.

We are looking for an outstanding Senior Manufacturing Engineer to take on a critical role in supporting the Prismatic (Complex Milling) Manufacturing Group.
The primary responsibility will be supporting the development of new product/development manufacturing processes, as well as applying continuous improvement manufacturing technologies to existing or mature production programs.
The person in this role will take ownership and drive results performing challenging and non routine manufacturing engineering applying standard engineering techniques, procedures, and "out of the box" thinking.
In addition to accountability for the manufacturing processes this person will also help support other aircraft facilities worldwide as required

Duties and Responsibilities

Evaluate and develop new and emerging technologies in manufacturing engineering and production process development.
Play a major role in coordinating Design for Manufacturing efforts amongst various development engineering groups for new and existing programs.
Determine manufacturing procedures, operation sequencing, prepare tooling and gauge lists, create, and prove out N/C programs, writing of detailed operations sheets and work instructions to produce complex milled machined parts and sub-assemblies.
Hands on approach in supporting continuous improvement efforts for existing production processes.
Prepare, monitor, and update engineered or estimated time standards for set up and run hours, man to machine ratios and economic run quantities for each component's processes throughout the entire parts routing.
Provide detailed cost estimates for new business capture and process improvement efforts.
Leadership in new manufacturing capital equipment evaluation, justification, purchasing and implementation.
Daily interaction with a variety of disciplines, including other Moog engineers, technicians, operations, and quality personnel, as well as external suppliers, to solve process related problems and mentor others.
Work days are split between hands on shop interaction and office assignments. Many times, the Manufacturing engineers performs their own machine program proveouts side by side with shop personnel.
Project leadership opportunities assigned by the Group Lead and/or Manufacturing Engineering Manager.
Support of production automated manufacturing cells, driving process stability to achieve reduced attended labor and human factor variation. Assignment/Ownership of a dedicated manufacturing cell is likely.
Some international and/or domestic travel as required (5% or approx. two weeks/year).

Please send resume to - Amarx Search, Inc. - (link removed)

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