Production Engineer

2 weeks ago


Asheville, United States Haakon Industries Full time
Haakon Industries is a manufacturing company whose mission is to breathe life into an advanced and responsible future. We accomplish our goal by making engineered-to-order products of exceptional quality, solving challenges with technical and sustainable solutions, and maintaining healthy working relationships.

Haakon Industries is a rapidly expanding, client-focused, manufacturer of high end custom air handling equipment. We have developed a reputation for quality and reliability that has many of North America's largest companies asking for our products by name. Our equipment is used in hospitals, pharmaceutical laboratories, microchip manufacturers, universities, automotive manufacturing plants, and countless other institutional, industries, and commercial facilities. We strive for excellence by continuing to invest in our facilities, our product and our people.

Haakon Industries in headquartered in Richmond, BC Canada and currently has 3 manufacturing facilities; one in Kingston, ON, Canada and one in Cheney, WA, USA and our newest facility in Asheville, NC, USA.

We are looking for production engineers to be a part of the team to help grow our rapidly expanding manufacturing facility in Asheville, NC. This is a unique opportunity for the right candidate, as it is a brand new facility and is a blank canvas for a high performing and independent engineer.

The ideal candidate possesses strong mechanical and manufacturing aptitude and problem solving skills, along with well-developed interpersonal skills, both written and verbal. Working as a Production Engineer it is important that you are capable of effectively managing changing priorities, are self-motivated and thrive in an extremely fast paced environment. You must understand lean manufacturing principals, have a high level of mechanical aptitude, be a strong proponent of continuous change and enjoy spending time on the production floor. This is a very hands on engineering position.

Qualifications;
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited university (Mechanical or Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering preferred, but other concentrations will be considered for the right candidate)
  • Three to ten years of manufacturing experience required

Some of the responsibilities and key characteristics include but are not limited to:
  • Be responsible for implementing and maintaining high safety standards
  • Maintain processes and product to established Quality Control standards
  • Ability to analyze and resolve problems
  • Ability to propose and implement new processes and process improvements with minimal guidance
  • Project management
  • Provide input and implementation of standard operating procedures
  • Implement lean principles such as takt times, visual management, kaizen, and kanban
  • Be a positive change agent for production processes
  • Liaison between design engineering and production
  • Serving as a technical resource to production staff, customers and sales

We offer an extensive training program that will include training and exposure to fabrication and electrical design, applications engineering at our corporate office (located in Richmond, BC, Canada) and production engineering training in Cheney, WA or Kingston, ON, Canada.

Training in Richmond, BC and Kingston, ON requires that you be willing and able to travel internationally.

If you are interested in joining an entrepreneurial company who respects their employees and encourages independence and success, we would like to hear from you. Please submit your application here or forward your resume and cover letter to hr.asheville@haakon.com. Please include salary requirements.

Haakon is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.

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