Manufacturing Engineer (Tooling)
Summary
Design and develop manufacturing, assembly, welding, and inspection fixtures using SolidWorks and GD&T; collaborate on trials and shop-floor issues, and support lean/process improvements, time studies, line balancing, VSM, and work instructions. Requires a bachelor’s in industrial or manufacturing engineering and shop-floor experience.
Highlights
- Experience
- Shopfloor experience mandatory
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering
- Equipment Provided
- SolidWorks
- Type
- Full-Time
Job description
Prolim is hiring for a Manufacturing Engineer (tooling) for Leading client
Location: Appleton, WI
Job Description & Skill Requirement
Qualification
Skills
Location: Appleton, WI
Job Description & Skill Requirement
- Lead the design and development of manufacturing, assembly, welding, and inspection fixtures using SolidWorks.
- Create complete 3D fixture layouts, assemblies, and detailed fabrication drawings using GD&T.
- Collaborate with manufacturing and quality teams to validate fixture concepts, support trials, and resolve shop floor issues.
- Drive process capability and productivity improvements through effective fixture solutions.
- Develop and maintain standardized work instructions incorporating fixture usage, operator guidance, and safety considerations.
- Study Assembly Lines/ Processes and identify areas for improvement as per Lean Principles.
- Perform Time Study and Line Balancing - Elemental breakdown, Video Time study- All Processes (Stations & Operator), VA/NVA/RNVA analysis, Develop Current State Line Balancing, Muri Analysis.
- Develop Value Stream Mapping - Current State VSM - Identify bottlenecks, wastes and inefficiencies, Capacity analysis and Current baselining, Future State VSM, Current state vs Future state.
- Identify Process and productivity improvement opportunities for entire process with Level 1,2,3 improvement suggestions report and roadmap.
- Develop/ re-write Standard work instructions, Video work instructions.
- Analysis of Root Cause for the quality failures, defects, downtimes etc., and support in corrective action & Kaizen / improvement identification with detailed implementation plan.
- Support in Fixture design as per requirements.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in industrial, Manufacturing Engineering.
Skills
- Shopfloor Experience is mandatory
- Fixture Design & Manufacturing
- Work Instructions
- Time Study
- Line Balancing
- Continuous Improvement
- VSM
- Lean Manufacturing