Wax Process Engineer
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Incumbent provides expert consultation in one or more areas for the design, development and implementation of products, processes, plans and procedures. Is recognized as a technical leader and resource. Recommends alterations and enhancements to improve quality of products and/or procedures. Demonstrates expertise in a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. May provide consultation on complex projects and is considered the top-level contributor/specialist.
Based on their independent judgment and within the scope of their engineering expertise, incumbent is vested with the authority to stop the manufacturing process.
Effective decisions will typically result in successful part programs and considerable financial benefit to the company.
May supervise other engineers and/or technicians on an ongoing basis or as needed for the term of assigned projects.
Essential Job Functions:
Keep Process and Raw Material Supply in Control
Maintenance
- Review and respond to plant/department quality/process data on a weekly and quarterly basis.
- Update and review control charts, control limits, and process control cookbooks.
- Audit and update PCP's SOP's and Purchase Specifications, as well as Audit Plans and Reports.
- Process control is a key source of process information and process expertise for process and part troubleshooting. Immediate customer and quality excursions are a high priority.
- Improve measurements and capability for raw materials, input variables, process yields, and response variable using SPC and NEI methods. Focus on key metrics such as scrap, rework, and process yield.
- Improve the use and integration of SPC tools and techniques to improve process predictability.
- Conduct gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies.
- May supervise other engineers or technicians on assigned projects.
- Identify and address safety considerations within the scope of their job responsibilities.
- Understand the wax making process and directly work with wax suppliers and internal buyers to ensure the consistency of the raw materials.
- Manage the tooling status reviews for top critical programs and directly work with customers and internal sales and quality teams.
This position will be reporting to the Division Engineering Director.
Education and Qualifications:
- Requires a BS degree in Engineering/Technical Science with at least 3-5 years of experience in engineering related work. An advanced degree in materials, chemistry, or polymer science or engineering is preferred.
- Experience with data analysis and statistical process control.
- Experience with writing technical processing requirements for manufacturing or equivalent.
- Broad knowledge of materials science engineering, manufacturing processes and investment casting technology.
- Knowledge and demonstrated ability in engineering principles and disciplines.
- Excellent communication skills verbal and written
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with various levels of the organization
- Demonstrated high degree of objectivity and integrity in the evaluation of people and problems
- Demonstrated ownership of an area while partnering with other stakeholders
- Experience with data collection and analysis using excel
- PFMEA, Control Plan, process mapping
- Dashboarding and Statistical Process Control implementation and sustainment
- Wax making experience
- Tooling and Injection molding experience
- Investment casting experience
- Excel (including VBA), JMP, Minitab, WebFocus and/or Statistica.
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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- Location:
- Clackamas