Machining And Metal Processing Engineer
Our client is a machining and metal processing manufacturer specializing in casting and CNC machining, serving the aerospace, semiconductor, and food service industries. They are located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago and have about 140 employees total. They are ISO 9001:2015 certified and are experiencing steady growth as they add to their team.
Job Description
Responsibilities include interpreting customer requirements and defining appropriate machining/tooling specifications, designing machining fixtures for current products and/or new product implementation, preparing documentation packages for new and modified products and processes, staying abreast of equipment, material, products and process trends in the machining industry, designing improvements to products and processes for cost savings, overseeing/approving programming of prototype machining and tooling requirements, maintaining product standard routing times in ERP system, tracking productivity improvements, tooling performance improvements and cost reductions, evaluating machining processes to assure the requirements of the Quality Plan are met, improving existing manufacturing methods and consulting with tooling vendors as required to optimize CNC program and tooling performance, understanding and following all organization and department safety policies and procedures, developing product and production process requirements, standards, and associated documentation, overseeing the tool room, including the maintenance, repair, and availability of tooling, fixtures, and gauges needed to support production, performing product, process, and system audits, maintaining logs, and analyzing data, performing analysis of failed machining process and assisting/providing development of corrective action, evaluating yield, performance, and other statistical data for trends and developing corresponding product or process improvements, understanding and clarifying customers' needs and providing product application support, solving machining problems in production department and ensuring process documentations are updated, developing operator work instructions and tooling data sheets for production employees, reviewing CNC machining programmers work using CAD/CAM software, implementing engineering design changes as related to the machining processes, training production operators in the new or revised machining process, and performing other duties as assigned.
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The Successful Applicant
Requirements include a background in CNC machining (mills/lathes), experience with G-Code, hands-on troubleshooting experience, understanding of GD&T, experience with fixturing/workholding, at least 8+ years of manufacturing engineering experience, a bachelor's degree is preferred, CNC programming experience using CAM software is a plus, bilingual in Spanish is a plus, ERP experience is preferred, and SolidWorks experience is preferred.
What's on Offer
Base salary of $90k-$110k depending on years of experience, United Healthcare benefits, 401(k) matching - 50% up to 5%, and paid time off.