MES Engineer

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Where is the work:

On-Site (5 days)

This role will not offer sponsorship

Job Summary:

The MES Engineer is responsible for technical support of production processes, such as welding, fabrication, and assembly, related to the manufacturing of HVAC final finishers. Analyzes, plans, implements, and improves manufacturing process documentation at the site level to optimize manufacturing of custom modified HVAC equipment and subcomponents while meeting regulatory requirements, customer expectations, and business goals. This position is based out of our campus in Grand Rapids, MI and requires daily onsite presence.

Responsibilities:

• Work with factory staff and manufacturing engineers to configure the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) as manufacturing processes and products change.
• Maintain shop floor information systems and documentation of processes.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and product engineers to create new shop floor documentation to convey requirements of manufacturing processes including welding, fabrication, assembly, and product testing.
• Maintain effective change control of all process documentation.
• Maintain compliance of shop documentation with internal and external process requirements, effectively capturing all critical-to-quality (CTQ) or critical-to-safety work steps and conveying them to operators in the manufacturing process.
• Utilize shop floor systems to convey special features for custom modified products.
• Evaluate and improve compliance of shop documentation to standard work and best practices on the production floor.
• Prepare and implement detailed plans to ensure that process changes are documented and managed in a controlled fashion, and new product introductions are implemented effectively and within required timeframe.
• Collaborate with factory staff and manufacturing engineers to determine tools, methods, equipment, materials or parts, and sequence of events in manufacturing process.
• Collect and organize data from shop floor systems into actionable information for improving process efficiency.