Manufacturing Engineering Technician jobs in Illinois

Title: Manufacturing Engineering Technician

Location: Carpentersville, IL

Direct Hire or Contract

Starting Pay: Up to $32/hr.; depending on experience

Excellent Benefits: 401k, health, dental, vision, etc.

Hands-on technician to assist with production troubleshooting and support projects to improve manufacturing methods. Assist manufacturing engineers to address equipment and tooling needs to reduce costs and improve product quality and corresponding component parts. Additionally, to provide support to: troubleshooting production equipment, continuous improvement projects, and confirming rates/operations in routings, maintaining records in the ERP system. Will report to Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor.

Job Description:

• Under technical direction, troubleshoot and analyze manufacturing problems and implement corrective actions for high quality, efficient manufacturing solutions
• Support workflow analysis, work methods, plant and department layouts for improved product flow in production
• Assist production and new product development in troubleshooting CNC lathe machine and fiber optic laser programming
• Help identify required tools, jigs and fixtures, or other new or special equipment required for new production or improvements to existing production lines
• Assist with the installation and debugging of production equipment
• Identify opportunities to improve manufacturing processes to raise product quality and profitability
• Update and maintain visual and written work guidelines
• Update and maintain manufacturing routings
• Assist in the development of manufacturing infrastructure to integrate or deploy new manufacturing processes
• Perform time studies and monitor or measure manufacturing processes to identify ways to reduce losses, decrease time requirements, or improve quality
• Utilize ERP system to retrieve and maintain production information
• Perform other manufacturing tasks as assigned

Qualifications:

• Must have a good mechanical aptitude of general machinery.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• 2 years of CNC (lathe) programming and operating. (G code experience preferred)
• Ability to develop data-driven solutions in a manufacturing environment.
• Proficient in Solidworks or similar 3D modeling package.
• Experience with manufacturing data analysis.
• ERP system experience desirable
• Strong Excel skills desirable
• Experience with fiber optic laser programming desirable