Facilities Engineer

Excellent opportunity to work a premier manufacturing co with strong leadership. Reputation for delivering quality products, heavy engineered product development with R+D focus. Great benefits - insurances, PTO, bonus potential and 401k match.

The Facilities Engineer is responsible for oversight and coordination of building space allocation and layout and facility expansion; optimization and management of factory layout and equipment; assessing project and resources requirements; estimating and negotiating budgets and schedules with clients and engineers; and ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal agency requirements associated with construction and facility management.

Responsibilities

• Drive new products and equipment through the development process

• Gather and create product requirements and milestones

• Drive projects meet deadlines and complete within budget

• Provide basic technical leadership and lead by example

• Create and manage the plan for moving technical solutions to final manufacturing hand-off

• Assemble and coordinate the internal and external teams to gain consensus on deliverables

• Collaboratively adapt existing and develop new project plans, processes and communication standards for the operations teams

• Manage the resources, ongoing schedule and financial tracking of each project

• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential risks, and prepare contingency plans

• Develop and deliver progress reports, required documentation, and presentations.

• Works with internal and external stakeholders

• Identify technical risks to the organization as they relate to business requirements

• Anticipate bottlenecks and mitigate impact in the development cycle & project

• Implement transformational process improvements using Lean and Six Sigma tools

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline;

• Several years of engineering experience in manufacturing or development environments

• Demonstrated experience in team building, continuous improvement, and cycle time reduction

• Experience with project management

• Knowledge of procurement

• Vendor/contractor management experience

• Experience with supply chain management and supply chain quality

• Experience leading/managing production teams