What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Engineer - Disc position at Disc - Continental Disc Corporation?
Continental Disc Corporation, LLC (“CDC”) designs and manufactures safety-critical products that protect pressure-containing vessels from catastrophic failure. CDC is headquartered in Liberty, Missouri (outside Kansas City), and has manufacturing operations in Houston, Texas, and Ahmedabad, India with additional sales offices in India, the Netherlands and China. CDC benefits from being one of the most recognized brands in its industry and a reputation for outstanding quality earned over its more than 55 years of operation. CDC’s customers include blue-chip companies in the chemicals, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, general industrial, aerospace, defense, food and beverage, municipal, and other markets globally.
A Manufacturing Engineer at CDC is a self-starter who works toward implementing an overall strategic plan. The Manufacturing Engineer performs engineering work related to designing and developing of equipment and processes to support the manufacturing of Company products while supporting the lean initiatives of the organization.
Continental Disc Corporation has 50 years’ experience engineering and manufacturing rupture discs, valves and flame control products that protect the lives of our customers and our environment. We attribute our success to our commitment to growth, quality and innovation. We encourage members of the CDC team to support our efforts toward continuous improvement. We value and celebrate the team’s efforts to move our company forward through incremental advances and breakthrough achievements.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead efforts to develop new process technology to support manufacturing of existing
products and implementing new product designs into production.
- Complete special project/tasks and duties as assigned associated with product
and equipment design and testing.
- Prioritize own work to meet required schedules and product release deadlines.
- Support lean activities that may include working towards six-sigma initiatives.
- Complete weekly and monthly Progress Reports and various other reports as needed
- Support the daily requirements of production including but not limited to:
- Process deviation request
- Process Engineering Change Requests to procedures and drawings
- Provide technical support to quoting and estimating on product and manufacturing information
- Support Codes and Standards (e.i. API, NFPA)
- Support the improvement of production KPIs: OTD, First pass yield, NCR pareto, Shop efficiency
- Provide technical support to Design Engineering team on product structures and manufacturing routers.
- Write and update manufacturing procedures and engineering procedures
- Support Supply Chain Department in the development/training of new and existing suppliers
- Design tools and equipment
- Provide training for production personnel on manufacturing processes
- Process Returned Material Requests
- Coordinate training and standard manufacturing processes with remote site
- Perform other duties as assigned, based on workload and business need