Position: Mechanical Engineer – Manufacturing Development Engineer
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Responsibilities
This role assures that manufacturability, quality, and cost targets are met as an integral part of VMAC’s process of developing new compressor designs. To maintain and develop new manufacturing methods and capability to deliver VMAC compressor components and products to meet specifications, and total cost of ownership targets. Bringing experience and knowledge in both low and high-volume precision production environments to enhance our capability at VMAC to support high volume production for the emerging EV market.
Position Specific Duties
- Contribute to setting specification standards for engineering drawings to assure manufacturing and quality standards can be fully derived and that the specification thoroughly defines components.
- Take responsibility for leading the planning and proposals for improvements and their execution upon approval. Implement systems and processes in collaboration with Quality and Manufacturing leaders to control the production quality.
- Be an active participant in new R&D product development projects and works to develop capability to manufacture new rotors and related VRP components or assemblies to assure production readiness. Conversely, act as a gatekeeper to assure new designs are not undertaken or progressed that are not manufacturable.
- Develop new product and engineering change minimum release deliverables (standards, specifications, information packages, formats) from engineering to assure new designs and changes can be accepted by VRP and used to manage manufacturing to meet cost and quality targets.
- Technical analysis of manufacturability of new rotors and related compressor designs and development of tools and processes for assuring process capability is verifiable or can be developed in accordance with product release timelines.
- Leading cross departmental activities and proposing solutions (training, equipment, tools, services, processes, and facilities) to assure VRP manufacturing can meet quality and cost targets for new and existing products. Subject to approval executing such proposals.
- Validate existing and new equipment and processes, perform a sensitivity analysis and process capability analysis.
- Work with the Product Quality Engineering to set the standard for quality control and lead the definition of required quality processes necessary for sustaining quality and continuous improvements.
- Design and/or manage new tooling development for manufacturing, measuring and test purposes.
- Develop an understanding of the required standard for specifications, product/component performance, manufacturability of the design, manufacturing process capability and quality measurement to ensure these are fully considered in all decisions determining the output of VMAC’s product development of compressor air ends and their components.
- Technical liaison with outside contractors/services as applicable
- Build production engineering documentation as part of the QMS to control and document detailed steps to define the approved manufacturing process for critical components (such as rotors) and assemblies. Authorize and document changes as necessary in accordance with an approved process.
- Create documentation using Microsoft Office, SolidWorks, & M2M.
- Ensure full engineering practices, compliance with recognized standards and testing procedures are adhered to.
- Be proficient in Solid Modeling and Microsoft Office. Have a working knowledge of various manufacturing processes, general machining, CNC programming and fabrication techniques. Have strong analytical decision-making and organizational skills. Operational knowledge and experience with conventional machine tools, instrumentation, and data acquisition systems.
- A specialized knowledge and experience in forging, CNC precision machining, precision assembly, and other related metal alloy manufacturing processes are highly desirable.
- Performs related tasks as assigned.
Qualifications / Education / Experience
- Minimum 4-year Bachelor of Engineering Degree from an accredited university of good standing or equivalent.
- Post-graduate technical degree is an asset.
- Minimum 10+ years of relevant industry work experience.
- P.Eng. designation / APEGBC membership is preferred (not required)
- Lean Manufacturing training or experience is an asset.
- SolidWorks/3D solid modelling and analysis
- GD&T and specification development capability
- Experience and in-depth knowledge of design for a wide range of high-volume production processes: die casting, injection molding, high speed CNC machining, stamping, heat treatment, metal coatings etc. either through suppliers or inhouse production capabilities
If your experience and qualifications match these requirements, please forward your resume to the attention of the HR Department.
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: 250-740-3201
Mail: 1333 Kipp Road, Nanaimo, BC V9X 1R3
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