Process Planning Engineer

Position Report To: Program Manager

Shift: 9:00pm - 5:30pm (weekends and overtime as needed) 

Benefits:

• Compensation Range $23.00-$35.00 (DOE) Varies base on skill set  
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Employer Paid Basic Life, Supplemental Life Insurance, 401k with a Employer Match
• Generous Paid Time Off program
• 8 Holidays and 1 Floater Holiday

Essential Functions Statement(s)

• Review and interpret customer specifications, purchase orders, engineering drawings, models, and revisions to ensure compliance with customer requirements and company capabilities. 
• Evaluate customer specifications to establish new manufacturing processes and identify gaps between existing processes and customer requirements.
• Develop detailed, step-by-step manufacturing work instructions for complex machined components and aircraft assemblies.
• Determine when additional sketches, visual aids, or process documentation are required to support manufacturing operations.
• Analyze engineering drawings and CAD models to identify product configuration changes and manufacturing impacts.
• Create and maintain work orders, routers, travelers, certification documents, technique cards, and other manufacturing documentation to ensure proper flow-down of customer requirements and objective evidence of conformance.
• Plan, prioritize, and schedule workflow for each department and operation based on manufacturing sequences, production capacity, and customer lead times.
• Schedule all new customer orders, product introductions, and engineering packages to support production requirements.
• Coordinate with Production Planning to ensure accurate work orders and manufacturing documentation are created and released.
• Generate internal and external rework work orders and revise routing steps as necessary to support engineering changes and nonconforming material.
• Maintain specifications, work instructions, work centers, process routings, and matrix data within the MRP/ERP system.
• Monitor the MRP dashboard daily to ensure work orders, schedules, and production priorities are accurate and current.
• Review customer specification revisions and perform gap analyses to implement required process changes.
• Develop, implement, and optimize manufacturing processes to improve quality, throughput, efficiency, productivity, and cost.
• Evaluate tooling, paint processes, labor utilization, and manufacturing methods to identify cost reduction and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Apply Statistical Process Control (SPC) and continuous improvement tools, including FMEA, Pareto Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA), to reduce manufacturing risk and improve process performance.
• Coordinate project activities with Engineering, Planning, Production, Quality, Purchasing, and outside processing vendors to ensure customer requirements and production schedules are achieved.
• Provide technical support to internal departments and approved outside processing vendors regarding manufacturing processes, specifications, and documentation.
• Create, revise, and maintain manufacturing procedures, processing instructions, and quality work instructions.
• Conduct Planning-related training, including MRP processes and compliance with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
• Track planning metrics and monitor workflow to support on-time delivery and manufacturing performance.
• Ensure compliance with company quality systems, customer requirements, AS9100/NADCAP requirements (as applicable), ITAR/EAR regulations, and all applicable company policies.
• Support Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

POSITION QUALIFICATION

•  Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Applied Learning - Ability to participate in needed learning activities in a way that makes the most of the learning experience.
• Coaching and Development - Ability to provide guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas.
• Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
• Communication, Written - Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely.
• Conflict Resolution - Ability to deal with others in an antagonistic situation.
• Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures.
• Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Leadership - Ability to influence others to perform their jobs effectively and to be responsible for making decisions.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Patience - Ability to act calmly under stress and strain, and of not being hasty or impetuous.
• Self Motivated - Ability to be internally inspired to perform a task to the best of ones ability using his or her own drive or initiative.
• Training - Ability to develop a particular skill in others to bring them up to a predetermined standard of work performance.
• Team Builder - Ability to convince a group of people to work toward a goal.
• Responsible - Ability to be held accountable or answerable for one’s conduct.
• Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
• Problem Solving - Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.
• Management Skills - Ability to organize and direct oneself and effectively supervise others.
• Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
• Ethical - Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
• Judgment - The ability to formulate a sound decision using the available information.
• Honesty / Integrity - Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace
• Initiative - Ability to make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal.
• Goal Oriented - Ability to focus on a goal and obtain a pre-determined result.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Education: High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED): Required

• Experience: 5 plus years of experience in Planning Processing 
• Computer Skills: Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Engineering background 
• Able to read blueprint reading is a plus 
• Aerospace background is a plus
• Other Physical Requirements
• Vision (Near, Distance)
• Sense of Sound - Able to hear average conversations
• Sense of Touch
• Finger Dexterity

• WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The majority of work is performed in an office setting