Manufacturing Engineer

The Manufacturing Engineer role at Balance Staffing Company supports product improvement efforts within a production environment, with a focus on enabling non-fault launch and introduction. Working onsite in Newark, CA, you will use data analysis and root-cause methods to develop solutions, while partnering with cross-functional teams to keep lines validated and ready for new and sustained product changes.

This position offers USD 85,000 - 95,000 per year and is based on a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with at least 2 years of related manufacturing experience.

What You’ll Do

• Drive product improvements across facility projects using data analysis and root causing to develop solutions that support non-fault launch and introduction in production.
• Support manufacturing trials by helping ensure part availability, line readiness, and that pre-requisite data is obtained and consolidated for new products or sustainability of existing product changes.
• Validate and restore manufacturing lines to the prior condition after trials by evaluating trial outcomes such as yield, downtime, cost, and safety.
• Develop and prove manufacturing and test processes during product development and launch.

Responsibilities

• Support validation of manufacturing bill of materials (BOM) for one or multiple lines.
• Provide feedback to the technical project/program manager and cross-functional team members on issues, yield impact, or manufacturability related to trial runs.
• Complete Trial Reports documenting observations, analysis, and results.
• Apply proven manufacturing practices to refine, develop, and launch both new products and existing product improvements.
• Be hands-on in creating assembly and test procedures for production transfer and launch for existing and new designs.
• Organize and supervise process verification builds, using proven statistical methods.
• Help plan for capacity and throughput in a high mix, low to medium volume environment.
• Provide DFM feedback to the engineering team.
• Support updating documentation for production ramps.
• Perform other duties as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• 2 years of related manufacturing environment experience.
• Excellent attention to detail with strong record-keeping and organizational skills.
• Ability to perform well and grow under limited supervision.
• Highly-motivated self-starter.
• Reliable, innovative, committed, and quality-focused.
• Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, and policies related to specialized projects.
• Excellent written and verbal skills, with the ability to communicate across cultures and geographic regions.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate activities.
• Can provide leadership and work closely with cross-functional departments.