Production Engineering Manager

6 days ago


Aurora, Illinois, United States BCforward Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Manufacturing Engineer to join our team at BCforward. As a key member of our production engineering team, you will be responsible for coordinating design for manufacturing efforts, evaluating new technologies, and developing efficient manufacturing processes.

Key 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.
Requirements
  • Bachelor of Science Degree (Manufacturing, Mechanical, Industrial Eng or Tech).
  • A minimum of 5 years Manufacturing Engineering with milled parts experience with increasing responsibility.
  • A minimum equivalent of 5 years hands on machining experience.
  • CAD/CAM CNC milled parts programming experience (Siemens NX preferred). Fluent in G&M Code programming.
  • Strong cutting tool and workholding knowledge, selection, and design. Quick change and automation tooling/workholding experience a plus.
  • Strong manufacturing process knowledge to create efficient CNC programs for complex milled parts.
  • A progressive thinker and self-starter to help advance our current methodologies and technologies as we drive to automated manufacturing cells.
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills to work effectively with a variety of people.
  • The ability to provide guidance and direction to other manufacturing engineers.
  • Experience developing automated and advanced manufacturing systems.
  • A 'Lean Mindset' and leadership skills to drive change towards a 'Lean factory' and 'Standardized Work'. (Lean belt certification a plus)
  • The ability to manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously. Experience with MS Project is a plus.
  • Strong computer skills proficiency. MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
  • Proficiency in blueprint reading and GD&T.
  • 5-Axis Machining center programming experience required. Moog's 5-Axis Global Machining Platform consists of Okuma MU-4000V, MU-5000V, MU-8000V and Mazak I-600 machines. Experience with these machines is a plus.
  • Experience in machining a wide variety of Aerospace materials (Aluminum, Titanium, Stainless Steels, etc) on complex milled parts.


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