Manufacturing Engineer

Eaton’s Global Energy Infrastructure Solutions (GEIS) division is currently seeking a Manufacturing Engineer. This role is onsite at our GEIS headquarters in Syracuse, NY. Relocation is not provided.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $86000 - $126000 a year. Please note the salary information shown is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you’ll do:

The Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for owning and driving the manufacturing engineering and quality programs for your assigned area. You will be defining and driving projects that improve productivity and quality for your area. You will facilitate efficient operations within the production area, optimizing existing processes, and ensure that production goals are met. You will own the project deck for all productivity and improvement projects in your area. This position is accountable to plan, design, develop and implement major plant engineering projects in order to create and maintain efficient and safe utilization of plant facilities to affect the most economical manufacturing cost.

In this role you will:

• Investigate and solve problems in manufacturing of products; perform manufacturing methods studies to determine optimum process and methods.
• Lead, facilitate and execute projects using the Eaton Business System approach to Lean/SS principles and processes to deliver results.
• Evaluate and recommend best solutions to given problems weighing economic return and compatibility with layout of plant facilities.
• Partner with Product Engineering to ensure that new designs incorporate provisions for maximum manufacturing economy.
• Identify new equipment and manufacturing technologies to make recommendations regarding equipment, plant changes in manufacturing facilities, and material flow.
• Use lean and statistical tools, approaches, and techniques to create process management and measurement systems and develop a continuous improvement mindset.
• Develop operational procedures such as standard work.
• Design manufacturing fixtures and specify tooling necessary to implement processes and methods.
• Implement cost reduction projects for methods, processes, and materials on present manufactured products.
• Align local quality efforts with divisional leadership to drive an effective quality assurance and improvement strategy.
• Coordinate external facility contract services and ensure contractor compliance while also adhering to Federal, State, and Eaton EH&S standards.

Qualifications:

Basic (Required) Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of four (4) years of experience in engineering supporting a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum of one (1) year of continuous improvement experience.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1, H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, 1-485 job profitability, etc.
• No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of Syracuse, NY to be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering
• Six (6) years of experience in engineering supporting a manufacturing environment
• Two (2) years of continuous improvement experience
• Experience with metal CNC machining equipment
• Experience using AutoCad and Microsoft Office
• Machining experienced with CNC lathes, CNC machining centers and/or screw machines
• Experience with tooling and work holding fixtures.
• Versed in equipment investigation and recommendations.
• Experienced in writing capital appropriation request narratives and executive presentations
• Plating process knowledge
• Experience supporting and implementing autmoation solutions in a manufacturing environment.

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