ABOUT THE POSITION
Provide support in weld capabilities, feasibility, and tooling and capital purchasing for manufacturing, sales and product development.
Skills and Experiences
Essential Job Functions:
- Design concept welding equipment
- Build manufacturing welding equipment that meets product feasibility
- Support sales engineering team with quoting that lowers the manufacturing cost, meets quoted cycle times, efficiency, quality, and stays within budget plus delivered on time
- Support manufacturing for continuous improvement, lessons learned, issues on the floor, new launches, engineering changes or quality issues
- Review designs for manufacturing feasibility, suggest changes to the design to ensure product cost effectiveness
- Read and interpret CAD data, blueprints, GD&T, CMM reports, customer weld specifications
- Set weld standards/parameters for new products and follow up with weld testing to meet or exceed customer specifications
- Apply and utilize manufacturing best practice for efficiency, quality, safety and capability
- Robot programming to support all Shape facilities and suppliers during the build process
- Develop good working relationships and effective communication skills with vendors, team members, suppliers and project teams
- Completion of miscellaneous duties and projects as directed by your supervisor / manager / leader
- Ability to teach and mentor others
- Management of weld technicians direct reports, including responsibility for their professional development
Preferred Education and Experience:
- Bachelors Degree of Science in Electrical Engineering, Automated Welding, Welding Engineering Technologies, Mechanical Engineering or Related Field.
- 2+ years experience in Robotics, MIG, ARC, TIG, Plasma or resistance welding required
- Plasma cutting, laser cutting is a plus
- Familiar with weld verification methods, weld testing methodology, measuring devices
- CAD software preferred
- Experience with Microsoft Applications (e.g. word, excel, outlook, etc)
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Contact:
616.846.8700