Mechanical Engineer

Job description

• Research, plan, design, develop, and implement mechanical systems, equipment, and manufacturing processes.
• Provide mechanical engineering support for production equipment, utilities, and auxiliary systems.
• Analyze equipment performance and identify opportunities to improve safety, reliability, efficiency, quality, and throughput.
• Develop solutions for equipment-related issues through troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on waste reduction, scrap reduction, downtime reduction, and process optimization.
• Provide technical support and guidance to manufacturing, maintenance, and operational teams.

• Lead or support capital and continuous improvement projects ranging from equipment modifications to major machine installations.
• Develop project scopes, budgets, schedules, and implementation plans.
• Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure projects are completed safely, on time, and within budget.
• Manage procurement activities including vendor selection, RFQs, capital requests, and project cost tracking.
• Oversee equipment installation, startup, testing, validation, and project closeout activities.

• Promote a strong safety culture by ensuring safety requirements are incorporated into all engineering activities.
• Participate in risk assessments, machine safeguarding evaluations, and implementation of safety improvements.
• Ensure compliance with company standards, regulatory requirements, and engineering best practices.
• Support contractor safety and quality compliance during project execution.

• Evaluate existing equipment and systems to identify opportunities for performance improvement.
• Lead reliability improvement efforts and corrective action projects.
• Utilize engineering principles and data analysis to improve operational performance and reduce losses.
• Support preventative and predictive maintenance initiatives.

Responsibilites

• Responsible for Mechanical expertise in manufacturing
• Lead continuous improvement and corrective action activities & projects with emphasis on Scrap & Waste improvement activities.
• Provide technical support to internal customers.
• Provides input into the design for new or modified systems, processes or technologies.
• Manage major projects such as New Machine installation, upgrades, etc. The Projects range from $50K to $1M.
• Analyze project requirements, identify and address design parameters, engineering challenges and to ensure solutions are implemented accurately, timely and within budget.  Serve as technical lead, planning and organizing portions of a project. Budget, manpower and equipment utilization.
• Oversee project workflow and support internal and external resources to ensure on-time delivery of projects, meeting quality standards and within budget.
• Ensure all relevant safety objectives and legal requirements, for all activities, are observed and implemented.
• Participate in monitoring and evaluating the performance of existing systems, processes and technologies and recommends modifications and enhancements to improve quality and/or efficiency.
• Other duties as assigned