Engineering Technician

The engineering technician will work alongside manufacturing engineers, maintenance personnel, toolmakers, and production personnel to implement engineering projects in the plant. This role requires hands-on competency in various systems, including tooling, machinery, and automation, and involves supporting process improvements, troubleshooting, and documenting processes.

Requirements

• Ability to read and understand production prints and tolerancing conventions.
• Excellent verbal communication skills. Good written communication skills.
• Ability to check computer throughout the day for emails and internal workflow notifications.
• Mechanical aptitude: must be able to work on and with machinery in a manner that is safe, systematic, and effective. Must be comfortable working safely with progressive die sets.
• Leadership: must be comfortable implementing changes in an environment where change is difficult.
• Ability to use Microsoft Excel for project tracking and documentation indexing.
• Must be familiar with creating CAD models and drawings; experience in Autodesk Inventor preferred.
• Ability to converse with toolmakers and skilled setup personnel to understand critical tooling information, and to convey this information using engineering drawing conventions.
• Must be able to take repeatable measurements with digital vernier calipers, micrometers, and gage blocks.
• Must take responsibility for project successes. Must have the persistence required to complete technical tasks. Must proactively continue to check for task completion if the task has been delegated to another party.
• Must have thick skin. Must react to potentially challenging situations in a way that diminishes or resolves conflict rather than amplifying it.
• Must have basic understanding of cold forming physics.
• Must be able to maintain a clean and organized workbench while simultaneously dealing with articles that do not fit into categories.

Benefits

• Support of Company Safety Initiatives including Lock-out/Tag-out/Clear & Try.
• Work with engineering team on development of new products.