Manufacturing Engineer II

Regal Rexnord Corporation

New Hartford, CT

Pay: $90,000-$110,000/yr

Shift: Full time

Work Model: This is a fully onsite role, with work performed at your designated Regal Rexnord office.

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**Position Overview**

The Manufacturing Engineer plans, directs, and coordinates manufacturing processes in industrial plant: Develops, evaluates, and improves manufacturing methods, utilizing knowledge of product design, materials and parts, fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment capabilities, assembly methods, and quality control standards.

**Key Responsibilities**

Duties include but are not limited to:

Assist with developing a continuous improvement culture to enhance quality and operational excellence.

• Support process improvement initiatives. Initiate new projects and be a technical resource for key improvement initiatives, identifying best practices. Develop action plans to achieve short and long-range efficiency goals, selection of new production methods, designs of production fixtures, and methods to monitor efficiencies. Drive automation to replace the manual process as much as possible.

• Monitor timelines and project deliverables to ensure adherence with approved project plans for manufacturing process development.

• Identify issues and risks to ensure cost effective new product development and introduction into manufacturing.

Provide general Manufacturing Engineering duties.

• Provide guidance in the development of manufacturing processes, validation and product specifications, including material specifications, assembly drawings, tooling and manufacturing documentation.
• Work with project teams to identify issues and risks associated with new product development (NPD). During NPD, partner with Engineers, Design Engineers, Quality Engineers and the Production Team to ensure cost effective NPD and introduction into manufacturing. Responsible for performing design reviews and pre-validation assessments (DFM, 3P).
• Research and provide recommendations for new equipment, products, and processes utilizing industry standard project management tools and techniques. Responsible for the purchase or design of equipment that meets health, safety and environmental standards set by the company. Present process and equipment recommendations to Leadership Team with regular and timely reviews that will define team roles, responsibilities, and accountability to project plans for implementation.

Provide sustaining engineering support for shop floor ongoing issues.

• Develop manufacturing Work Instructions and Operation Sheets/Process Prints in support of Standard Work.

• Provide process support on manufacturing technical issues.
• Design production workstations and processes for ergonomics and efficiency.
• Define Preventive Maintenance programs for equipment associated with production activities.

**Required skills and qualifications**

• Associates Degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical or related field.

• Proficiency designing mechanical equipment, fixturing, and tooling in CAD (AutoCAD, SolidWorks preferred).

• Proficiency creating detailed drawings from solid models for various fabrication techniques (CNC/manual machining, welding, sheet metal forming).

• Proficiency in mechanical assembly (press fits, adhesive bonding, fastener selection).

• Experience introducing new equipment and new processes into a production environment.

• Experience creating process documentation.

• Able to work under pressure while managing competing demands and tight deadlines.

• Working knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

• Ability to work independently and effectively with cross functional teams.

**Preferred skills and qualificatio** ns

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations, business, or related field.
• 3+ years of manufacturing process improvement experience.
• Recognized process improvement training (Lean, Six Sigma, etc.).
• Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) experience.

**Expected Base Salary Range:**

$90,000.00 - $110,000.00

The salary range provided is intended to display the value of the company's base pay compensation for this position. Salary is dependent on a multitude of factors, including but not limited to the physical worksite location, the geographic market of that location, candidate's skill set, level of experience, education and internal peer compensation comparisons among other potential factors.

Restrictions imposed by federal export control laws may limit this job opportunity to candidates who are a ‘U.S. Person’, which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted asylum in the United States, and refugees in the United States, or who otherwise can qualify for a license that permits them to hold the position.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

**Physical Demands and Work Environm