Manufacturing Engineer

Combined Metals is a premier North American processor and distributor of specialty strip and wire built through 50 years of growth and acquisition. Combined Metals is the largest independent processor and distributor of specialty strip and wire in North America.  With nine service centers, Combined Metals supports over 3,000 customers in the Aerospace, Defense, Nuclear, Medical, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, Electrification, Automotive, and Consumer industries.  Decades of quality and reliability have made Combined Metals a chosen source in performance applications.

Responsibilities:

• Communicate effectively between sales, production, and quality to ensure that material meets customer and internal acceptability standards.
• Disposition Production Holds and quality concerns of in-process material to appropriate parties.
• Maintain the “Quality Inspection System (QIS).”  Address all concerns in a timely manner.  Conduct both new hire and refresher QIS training as dictated by management.
• Analyze Production Holds and QIS’s for trends and communicate findings to both engineering and management.
• Utilizing QT9, develop and manage Production’s Training Program. 
• Write work instructions and procedures for Manufacturing teams and equipment.
• Determine root causes and corrective actions of both internal and external rejected material.
• Utilize various lean six sigma problem solving skills to accurately identify and eliminate problematic root causes.
• Maintain the continuous improvement program and determine the feasibility and implementation of CI suggestions.
• Maintain proficiency regarding the allocation and routing of material.
• Collect, analyze, summarize, and present production and process data, information, and trends to management.
• Generate reports, manual and automated, that effectively communicate the state of production via the department’s KPI’s.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Production regarding tooling life and design to ensure effective production methods.
• Schedule machine work as required by management.
• Recommend changes that lead to improvements in product quality, process effectiveness and/or lower cost of manufacture.

Qualifications:

• High school degree or equivalent required

• Manufacturing Engineering Degree or equivalent preferred 

• Manufacturing Experience is preferred.
• Have basic computer skills
• Have basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and Power Term