Manufacturing Engineer

Job Highlights

Company Profile

Boyd Corporation is a leading solution company. It is a world-leading innovator of technologies in material science, engineered material, and thermal management that seal, protect, interface, and cool our customers’ most critical applications. The company designs and manufactures advanced engineered materials and thermal management solutions.

Job Profile

The company is hiring a Manufacturing Engineer who will provide technical expertise to support the development, implementation, and fabrication of custom thermal management solutions.

Serves a hybrid role between a product and process engineer.

Education Level

• BS in engineering with 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment

Work Experience

• Experience with Defense and Aerospace products and requirements.
• Experience in tolerancing and GD&T

Duties/Responsibilities

• Cost Estimating: Review product requirements to assess manufacturability. Prepare cost-to-manufacture estimates for the sales team for new products. Maintain system costing for existing products.
• New Product Introduction (NPI): Implement complete manufacturing data packages to allow for successful execution by the factory team. This includes ERP system creation of part numbers, BoMs, routes, and ECOs along with CAD models, drawings, and work instructions. Review specification requirements to ensure compliance.
• Process Maintenance: Handle technical process development and own overall process compliance for key departments in the factory. These may include dip brazing, heat treating, solder, and welding.
• Product/Program Management: Oversee and support released jobs on the shop floor. This may include analysis for customers, process oversight, and fixture development.
• Quality MRB: Disposition of non-compliant products for your responsible processes. Create rework orders or scrap parts as required.

Job Scope-

• All Manufacturing Departments – Shop support.
• Contacts/Interaction: Will interact with every facet of the business to complete daily tasks.
• Customers – Product development, print/spec questions, program updates.
• Decision Making: Has high-level decision-making responsibility. Failure to make accurate decisions or achieve results will directly operations.
• high-level decision-making to efficiently solve problems. Will exercise judgment to recommend actions to be taken in critical business situations.
• Job Complexity: Works on assignments that are complex and require
• Other Boyd facilities – QA issues, part review, and support.
• Production Control – Work order maintenance and project scheduling.
• Purchasing – Arrange orders for long lead items and process specific equipment/consumables.
• Quality Assurance – MRB/RMA activities and spec compliance.
• Sales – Process cost estimates and review new orders for NPI work.
• Supervisory Responsibility: None, no direct reports. May provide training to shop personnel for responsible processes.
• Vendors/Suppliers – Communicate requirements.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with shifting priorities.
• Excellent communication and project management skills, Gantt charts.
• General knowledge of ERP systems; Oracle preferred.
• General knowledge of ISO9000 or AS9100 standards and performing audits.
• Knowledge of BOM structures and process routings.
• Knowledge of DFM practices for a variety of product types.
• Knowledge of machine shop practices in a variety of different areas.
• Knowledge of statistical analysis tools.
• Problem-solving skills including root cause and corrective and preventative action.
• Proficient in CAD software; SolidWorks preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Special skills and abilities (computer, language, interpersonal skills, etc.)
• Working knowledge of NPI, 8D, Lean, DFM, PFMEA, Control Plans, and PPAP.

Cultural Requirement-

• Ability to accept personal accountability for successful job performance of self and limited accountability for others.
• Ability to communicate with inter-company, intra-company, customers, and vendors as required. (These skills would include phone skills, written skills, and email skills.)
• Ability to function as a team player.
• Ability to initiate and offer suggestions aimed at improving service to our customers.
• Travel: Less than 10%. May include occasional support for a customer.
• Work in a manufacturing environment.

Benefits/Perks

• Compensation
• Employee Development
• Health Care Benefits
• Savings and Retirement
• Vacation and Time off

Employer’s Statement

Boyd is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.