Manufacturing Engineer I - Fridley - Minco Products

Description

Overview

Minco is a global provider of thermal solutions, temperature sensing and control solutions, and flex circuit solutions for medical, aerospace, defense, oil and gas, power generation and other high-reliability applications. Our experienced team couples advanced product technologies, expert design and engineering services, and a deep understanding of our customers' applications to provide comprehensive solutions that meet exacting requirements for quality, reliability and performance.

Minco is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer I for our temperature sensing and control solutions engineering group. Manufacturing Engineers design, implement, and optimize manufacturing documentation, tooling and processes. They ensure all applied tools and processes are safe, efficient, and cost-effective. When opportunities for improvement arise, they take the initiative to permanently solve them in a timely and profit-minded manner. They use their technical knowledge to support other internal departments in resolving both internal and external inquiries and challenges.

Responsibilities

Provide technical support to production, quality, and other internal departments in a timely manner and to Minco's standard of excellence to solve internal challenges.

· Identify, assess, and carry out continuous improvement projects to permanently solve challenges, ensuring company-wide objectives, such as target lead times or scrap rates, are met.

· Collaborate with production, internal customers, and other engineers to fully understand and define product and specification requirements, objectives, timelines, and project tasks.

· Demonstrate an understanding of fundamental design engineering and related manufacturing principles and practices while reviewing drawings, assembly instructions, inspection requirements, and other areas as required; recognize problems and identify solutions or recommend appropriate actions.

· Review and update product-focused documentation to be clear and commonly understood by all employees, ensuring impeccable accuracy, repetition, and safety.

· Investigate, evaluate, and recommend new processes, materials, and tooling to continually accelerate Minco's leadership in design and manufacturing solutions, quality, productivity, and innovation.

· Support the resolution of external inquiries and challenges by responding to questions and concerns from Quality, Purchasing, and Customer Service departments in a timely and professional manner.

· Ensure compliance with department policies and procedures and applicable laws, rules, and regulations.

· Perform other duties as identified.

Qualifications

Preferred Skills:

· Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal, with prospects, customers, suppliers, third-party agencies, fellow employees, and Management.

· Ability to explain complex processes in clear understandable language for internal and external constituents.

· Ability to multi-task; concurrently implement various projects, programs, and other improvements. Thrives working in a fast-paced, dynamic, active, and high-volume work environment.

· Ability to develop good working relationships with Quality, Production, Sales, Purchasing, and Engineering.

· An eager learner, willing to and capable of assimilating new knowledge continually; applies it appropriately as circumstances require.

· Ability to perform professional design engineering support, taking full responsibility for assigned project deliverables.

· Outstanding ability to take initiative; accurately assess situations, circumstances, and opportunities, perform first-hand observations of current-state conditions, and implement successful solutions in a timely manner.

· Ability to design tooling; familiar with various fabrication processes including 3D modeling.

· Ability to write computer programs at an intermediate level to automate and improve processes. Preferred languages: VBA or Visual Basic, Python, LabVIEW, JavaScript.

· Understanding of fundamental design engineering principles and practices.

· Experience with SolidWorks.

· Experience working with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.

· PC skills; Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); and other applicable applications.

Work Experience:

· Minimum of a 3-month engineering internship, ideally in a similar role at a business-to-business manufacturing company with diverse product and service solutions, within AS9100 or ISO9001 systems.

· Experience collaborating with other engineers within the company to solve internal and external issues.

· Experience optimizing manufacturing processes, including development of tooling and/or product specific automation, and continuation engineering.

· Experience writing work instructions for a manufacturing environment, including for English as a Second Language (ESL) assemblers.

· Familiarity with manufacturing processes including but not limited to electronics manufacturing, light assembly, machining and fabrication processes, etching, plating, resistance welding, soldering, wire processing, lamination.

· Experience working in manufacturing environments requiring Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) and Foreign Object Debris (FOD) prevention and working within either AS9100 or ISO9001 based quality systems.

· Familiar with regulatory requirements such as REACH/RoHS/Conflict Minerals.

Education:

· Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Materials Engineering.

Work Environment:

· General office, engineering and production floor, and manufacturing environments.

· Domestic and/or International Travel might be ten percent or more, as needed.

· This is an on-site role