
Manufacturing Engineer
- Louisville, KY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Fancy – as manufacturers we believe practical, clean facilities are required to make quality products and retain the best team.
- Transactional - we have long-term relationships with our team members and most valuable customers.
- Satisfied - we celebrate achievement, then set our sights on new goals.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in TPS environments improving processes, preferably in metal fabrication, welding and painting operations.
- Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining machinery to automate processes. You’ve put in complex systems and got them to run at rate. You know how hard this is, how vendors exaggerate performance, how badly company leaders want it to be true. You love this challenge!
- Love of all things Kaizen, from plant-level events that layout workflow to reduce travel, to facilitating problem solving at a workstation, to ensuring implementation via follow up. You can’t walk past a process without a new idea.
- Interest in ability in conducting time studies and analyzing bills of materials. You find yourself always asking, “What’s that thing really cost?”
- Understand or want to get deep into powder painting, welding, automated conveyor systems, and controls.
- Develop manufacturing processes using lean manufacturing, kaizen and root cause analysis to support innovation and improvements.
- Justify, specify, project manage, install, and continuously improve new equipment including welding and painting systems.
- Design and implement continuous improvement project for current equipment and processes.
- Recommend and implement process and product changes.
- 5 or more years’ experience in engineering
- A bachelor’s degree in mechanical or industrial engineering
- Proficiency in CAD and MS Office, especially Excel
- In-depth understanding of lean manufacturing principles
- Competitive wage with annual increases and a performance-based annual bonus.
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Health, dental, & vision, insurance coverage
- Company paid life, short- & long-term disability insurance coverage
- Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and personal days