Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Aerospace and Defense
Ingenium Technologies
- Buffalo, NY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Evaluate and develop new and emerging technologies in manufacturing engineering and production process development.
- Play a major role in coordinating Design for Manufacturing efforts amongst various development engineering groups for new and existing programs.
- Determine manufacturing procedures, operation sequencing, prepare tooling and gauge lists, create, and prove out N/C programs, writing of detailed operations sheets and work instructions to produce complex milled machined parts and sub-assemblies.
- Hands on approach in supporting continuous improvement efforts for existing production processes.
- Prepare, monitor, and update engineered or estimated time standards for set up and run hours, man to machine ratios and economic run quantities for each component's processes throughout the entire parts routing.
- Provide detailed cost estimates for new business capture and process improvement efforts.
- Leadership in new manufacturing capital equipment evaluation, justification, purchasing and implementation.
- Daily interaction with a variety of disciplines, including other Moog engineers, technicians, operations, and quality personnel, as well as external suppliers, to solve process related problems and mentor others.
- 5-10 years Manufacturing Engineering with milled parts experience with increasing responsibility.
- Minimum equivalent of 5 years hands on machining experience.
- Strong cutting tool and workholding knowledge, selection, and design. Quick change and automation tooling/workholding experience a plus.
- Strong manufacturing process knowledge to create efficient CNC programs for complex milled parts.
- A progressive thinker and self-starter to help advance our current methodologies and technologies as we drive to automated manufacturing cells.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills to work effectively with a variety of people.
- The ability to provide guidance and direction to other manufacturing engineers.
- Experience developing automated and advanced manufacturing systems.
- A "Lean Mindset" and leadership skills to drive change towards a "Lean factory" and "Standardized Work". (Lean belt certification a plus)
- Proficiency in blueprint reading and GD&T
- 5-Axis Machining center programming experience required. Moog's 5-Axis Global Machining Platform consists of Okuma MU-4000V, MU-5000V, MU-8000V and Mazak I-600 machines. Experience with these machines is a plus.
- Experience in machining a wide variety of Aerospace materials (Aluminum, Titanium, Stainless Steels, etc) on complex milled parts.