Manufacturing Engineering Technician jobs in Appleton, WI

Description

This position is a blended role of Mechanical/Electrical troubleshooting, Robotics and Production support. Majority of role will be Manufacturing Production guidance, about 80%, while plant Robotics and PLC support is the other 20%. To be successful in this role, you need to be confident in your work, present well to others, and provide sound reasoning and recommendations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement processes in a manufacturing environment; make recommendations for improvements to production methods.
• Layout and install new equipment and/or machine upgrades.
• Support manufacturing operations such as: machining, tooling, welding, and assembly.
• Assist with equipment troubleshooting to identify root cause and corrective actions for machine downtime.
• Familiarity with robotics programming. Yaskawa and/or Fanuc preferred.
• Advises on design, fabrication, and modification of products for manufacturability.
• Regularly interact with Industrial Designers, Design Engineers and other team members on design.
• Create work instructions, develop bill of materials, provide auto-cut files for the plants.
• Lead manufacturing plants on product introduction and launches

Qualifications

• Minimum of three (5) years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong Mechanical and Electrical mindset. Design, develop, build and test mentality.
• Robotics/PLC background.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills a must. Good focus on root cause solutions.
• Great organizational and planning skills, able to multi-task.
• Understanding of Lean/Six Sigma environment