Description
Responsible and accountable for the cost, quality, and manufacturability of new and existing product lines. Tangent’s Manufacturing Engineers will be leading the initiative to ensure the successful and efficient production of our core products.
Requirements
Role and Responsibilities
- In Fab and Assembly, work closely with New Product Development team to transition approved designs into mass manufacturing.
- In Extrusion, work closely with manufacturing, tooling and maintenance to ensure low cost, high quality production is continuously at the forefront
- Refine and scale the manufacturing process for our current and new products.
- Study production and machine requirements
- Develop and test effective automated and manual systems.
- Design and install equipment.
- Organize and manage manufacturing workflows and resources.
- Integrate disparate systems (e.g. equipment handling, transport)
- Optimize facility layouts, production lines, machine operations and network performance.
- Partner with a multi-disciplinary team in creating process flow diagrams, FMEA, following and recording the APQP steps and leading a successful PPAP run of new and existing products.
- Identify wastes between current and ideal manufacturing visions, with the goal of reducing costs and lead time of specific production lines.
- Plan, lead, & execute improvement projects, A3, Kaizens, & Six-Sigma activities.
- Research automation techniques to maximize the efficiency of production lines.
- Develop and maintain quality assurance programs, specifications, procedures and equipment to meet process specifications.
- Responsible for implementing the quality system procedures to ensure 100% FTT efficiency.
- Coordinate with extrusion partners to optimize material usage and reduce waste.
- Responsible for maintaining, monitoring, and implementing SPC data gathering and analysis processes, to help production team improve their reaction time to defects and problems.
Required skills/abilities
- Proactive and independent with the ability to take initiative.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to lead teams not directly reporting to you.
Education and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing or Industrial engineering or related field.
- 3-5 years experience
physical requirements
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
- 3-5 years of manufacturing or industrial engineering experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work proactively and independently
- Ability to lead teams without direct reporting authority
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds
What We Do
Tangent Technologies is a leading manufacturer of high-performance synthetic and recycled high-density polyethylene (HDPE) lumber for residential, commercial, and structural markets. Headquartered in Aurora, Illinois, the company specializes in durable, weather-resistant solutions for outdoor furniture, site amenities, and marine decking, utilizing post-consumer recycled materials to provide sustainable and innovative alternatives to traditional wood, focusing on durability and long-term sustainability.
